Background
The son of a tailor from a shtetl near the Ukrainian seaport of Odessa, Brown first learned about radio from a shop teacher at Brooklyn"s Boys High School.
The son of a tailor from a shtetl near the Ukrainian seaport of Odessa, Brown first learned about radio from a shop teacher at Brooklyn"s Boys High School.
Brooklyn College.
Producing for the major radio networks and also for syndication, Brown worked with such actors as Helen Hayes, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra and Orson Welles while creating thousands of radio programs. He produced more than 30,000 radio shows over seven decades. At the age of 18, he began broadcasting on New York"s WEAF, reading newspapers with a Yiddish dialect.
He continued as a radio actor but soon began to pitch shows directly to advertising agencies.
While at Brooklyn College, he recruited fellow student Irwin Shaw to write scripts, giving the author his first paid writing job. Shaw later based a character on Brown in his 1951 novel about the radio industry, The Troubled Air.
He earned a law degree from Brooklyn Law School, where he was valedictorian, in 1931. During a span of 65 years Brown produced more than 30,000 radio programs, including The Adventures of the Thin Manitoba, The Affairs of Peter Salem, Bulldog Drummond, Columbia Broadcasting System Radio Mystery Theater, City Desk, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, Grand Central Station, Green Valley, United States of America, The Gumps, Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Joyce Jordan, Doctor of Medicine, Marie, the Little French Princess, The National Broadcasting Company Radio Theater, The Private Files of Rex Saunders, Terry and the Pirates and numerous daytime soap operas.
During World World War II he worked with the Writers" War Board and producing patriotic serials to aid the war effort.
In 1951-1955 he directed the National Broadcasting Company detective drama, Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, and he directed many episodes of shows he produced. Columbia Broadcasting System Radio Mystery Theater (complete collection) Internet Archive, Retrieved September 15, 2011
Inner Sanctum Mysteries (166 episodes) Internet Archive.