GRAVESEND MANOR |
"Gravesend Manor" was a hosted horror movie show with Ed Weiss as "Malcom the Butler" and Jim Varnum as "The Duke of Desmodas" presenting movies on Saturday nights on WOI-TV, Channel 5 Des Moines, Iowa in the late 1950's to early 1960's. The show would return in 1964; then again as the mid 1970's for a few years as "Son of Gravesend Manor"
The Cast:
Gravesend Manor (1964)
Son of Gravesend Manor (1974-1976)
"The Duke of Desmodas" - biography (taken from Bradley's Facebook page)"
Sadly Fred Kalamaja passed away on 2 March 1998.
The following are some clips from the shows, and interviews with the cast: Gravesend Manor - hosted by Malcom the Butler and The Duke of Desmodas from The Professor on Vimeo. |
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