Wednesday 17 October 2018

Floyd Gibbons

Born: 16 July 1887, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Died: 23 September 1939, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Floyd Gibbons was a journalist and radio presenter. He covered the First World War and was injured, losing his left eye, while attempting to save a U.S. Marine. He made a series of short films, in which he was a radio presenter telling stories. The stories were dramatised as he narrated them. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio.

Night Intruder (1938) as The Headline Hunter / Narrator

















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