Tudor Owen(1898-1979)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
This distinctive-looking, bushy-browed, heavy-set Welsh character actor
played dozens of rustics, sea captains, sheriffs, priests and police
officers during a forty-year long career, starting in 1926. His was the
perfect face for period drama. At the peak of his popularity, Owen
co-starred as a first mate in
Captain David Grief (1957),
a South Seas adventure based on stories by
Jack London. During the 1940's and
50's, he was prolific on radio, lending his voice to crime dramas like
"Pursuit" (CBS, 1949-52) and "Pete Kelly's Blues". His best-known role
was that of alcoholic
'wharf-bum' Jocko Madigan, drunk ex-doctor friend and sidekick of star Jack Webb,
in "Pat Novak for Hire". He also voiced Towser in
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)).
