American actor
Paramount Pictures attempted to cash in on the radio shows popularity by producing a 1945 movie of the same name which starred Gardner and featured dozens of Paramount luminaries. The picture fizzled.
Portrayed Archie on "Duffys Tavern" (CBS Radio: 1941-1942; NBC-Blue Radio: 1942-1944; NBC Radio: 1944-1952).
Hollywood, December 14, 1937: Ed Gardner, formerly active in the radio and advertising fields in New York, has been signed by M-G-M as a writer, supervisor and producer. He is currently handling details of M-G-Ms weekly radio program. Three other writers, George Bruce, Grover Jones and Jay Dratley, have also been placed under contract by the film company.
He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6554 Hollywood Boulevard for Television at 6676 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
Heavily Brooklyn-accented star of US radios widely popular "Duffys Tavern" during the 1940s, in which he portrayed Archie, the tavern manager. (The owner, Duffy, was never part of the programs dramatis personae.).
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings. .
