LIGHTS OUT

FRANK GALLOP
JACK LA RUE

"Lights Out" was a horror / supernatural series with narrators Jack La Rue, and later Frank Gallop. "Lights Out" was originally a radio show. For more information on "Lights Out" (the radio show) use the below link: From TMDB: In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949. From IMDB: Frank Gallop Frank Gallop was born on June 30, 1900 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Great Ghost Tales (1961), A Haunting We Will Go (1949) and There's Good Boos to-Night (1948). He died on May 17, 1988. Jack La Rue Discovered on Broadway by director Howard Hawks, La Rue was originally brought to Hollywood to play a gangster in Scarface (1932). He lost that role to George Raft, and similarly was replaced by Humphrey Bogart in the film version of The Petrified Forest (1936). Eventually, he became well-known to movie-goers as a mean, sexy gangster type in sadistic roles like Miriam Hopkins' abductor in The Story of Temple Drake (1933). Film audiences, who loved to loathe him on-screen, were occasionally surprised by his being cast against type in such movies as A Farewell to Arms (1932). His final film was in the low-budget film Paesano: A Voice in the Night (1975). Frank Gallop was also the host of "Great Ghost Tales". For more information on "Great Ghost Tales" use the below link: The following is an opening from the show: "Lights Out" - an opening from The Professor's Scary Clips on Vimeo.

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