Day Four - Alexander Scourby update #1

After all the postulating yesterday about the career of Alexander Scourby, ran across this today which explains the Brooklyn boy with what I thought was a British accent. Also explains his connection to Scripture, and why he would have recorded an RSV. OK readers, you can stop the deluge of posts about Alexander Scourby and the Revised Standard Version. Just as soon as there are some of you.

To wit:

From All Movie Guide: Of Greek parentage, Alexander Scourby hid his natural Brooklynese cadence behind a "stage British" accent in his earliest stage appearance. After an apprenticeship with Eva LeGalliene's company, Scourby graduated to Broadway with a major role in Leslie Howard's 1936 production of Hamlet. In radio from 1937, Scourby became one of the busiest and most sought-after voice-over specialists in the business, functioning as narrator on innumerable TV documentaries and as commercial spokesman for a myriad of products (most notably Johnson & Johnson bandages). In his Broadway and film work, Scourby was frequently cast as a villain, such as the Italian-American gangster boss in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953). One of his last assignments was as the host of the PBS broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera. The resonant voice of Alexander Scourby can still be heard on religious radio stations by virtue of his mid-'60s syndicated series "Alexander Scourby Reads the Scriptures." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

So. Now we know. Radio since '37, his own syndicated radio series in the 60s.