-LOU KRUGMAN-
The Great Kruggurk consults his crystal ball and discovers to his dismay
that the Kruggerand is worth only two bits in Dodge.
FINALLY, THE LOU KRUGMAN PAGE FOR WHICH MILLIONS
OF RADIO GUNSMOKE FANS HAVE BEEN CLAMORING!
If you want to acquaint and familiarize yourself
with Lou Krugman's voice, get ahold of the original
December 17, 1950 version of 'Wild Jack Rhett,'
and listen to his delicious performance
as villainous saloon owner Bohallon.
Or, as he would sibilantly put it,
'delishheewz' and 'villanez ssssalooon owner.'
As an added pleasure, Krugman actually does
the familiar Escape intro for this episode--
"You! Finding life rather dull?
Dreaming again of exotic places?
Wishing you were somewhere else?
We offer you... Escape!!!"
So--were the nine and twenty years of Gunsmoke not real?
Was Dodge merely all one exotic locale, one episode, one escape?
Lou Krugman was born in Passaic, N.J. in 1914.
Had he toddled four counties away to Monmouth,
he would have found himself in Long Branch,
thirty-eight years before he first acted in Gunsmoke.
In the May 30, 1950 episode
of the radio detective series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar,
Krugman does a very respectable Cockney accent as Cap Regan,
an old timer with a dinghy sailing out his final days in Haiti.
Fun supporting role.
Krugman looks great wearing a white tuxedo
and holding a cigarette
in the M Squad episode 'The Platter Pirates,'
where he plays a bistro owner
busted by Ballinger for bootlegging records.
In the Have Gun-Will Travel episode 'Champagne Safari,'
despite being a dastardly dry-gulcher,
Lou Krugman is very sympathetic as Antoine,
a Frenchman smitten by a British femme fatale.
Lou Krugman fans who have only heard
the Kroogster on radio Gunsmoke
and want to see what he looks like,
can watch him in the tv version of 'Gunsmuggler,'
where he gets a lot of screen time.
He was also in the tv adaptations
of 'Amy's Good Deed' and 'Buffalo Hunter.'
He later appeared in the b&w hr episode Old York.
Amid all the baddie bits, Lou Krugman was given a solid role
in the radio HGWT episode 'North Fork,'
where he plays a Mennonite man.
Krugman lends him sod & substance,
so that his character doesn't crumble into the stereotype
of a religious farmer harassed for his faith.
June 14, 2005
Copyright © 2006-2015 E. A. Villafranca, Jr.
All Rights Reserved
OF RADIO GUNSMOKE FANS HAVE BEEN CLAMORING!
If you want to acquaint and familiarize yourself
with Lou Krugman's voice, get ahold of the original
December 17, 1950 version of 'Wild Jack Rhett,'
and listen to his delicious performance
as villainous saloon owner Bohallon.
Or, as he would sibilantly put it,
'delishheewz' and 'villanez ssssalooon owner.'
As an added pleasure, Krugman actually does
the familiar Escape intro for this episode--
"You! Finding life rather dull?
Dreaming again of exotic places?
Wishing you were somewhere else?
We offer you... Escape!!!"
So--were the nine and twenty years of Gunsmoke not real?
Was Dodge merely all one exotic locale, one episode, one escape?
Lou Krugman was born in Passaic, N.J. in 1914.
Had he toddled four counties away to Monmouth,
he would have found himself in Long Branch,
thirty-eight years before he first acted in Gunsmoke.
In the May 30, 1950 episode
of the radio detective series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar,
Krugman does a very respectable Cockney accent as Cap Regan,
an old timer with a dinghy sailing out his final days in Haiti.
Fun supporting role.
Krugman looks great wearing a white tuxedo
and holding a cigarette
in the M Squad episode 'The Platter Pirates,'
where he plays a bistro owner
busted by Ballinger for bootlegging records.
In the Have Gun-Will Travel episode 'Champagne Safari,'
despite being a dastardly dry-gulcher,
Lou Krugman is very sympathetic as Antoine,
a Frenchman smitten by a British femme fatale.
Lou Krugman fans who have only heard
the Kroogster on radio Gunsmoke
and want to see what he looks like,
can watch him in the tv version of 'Gunsmuggler,'
where he gets a lot of screen time.
He was also in the tv adaptations
of 'Amy's Good Deed' and 'Buffalo Hunter.'
He later appeared in the b&w hr episode Old York.
Amid all the baddie bits, Lou Krugman was given a solid role
in the radio HGWT episode 'North Fork,'
where he plays a Mennonite man.
Krugman lends him sod & substance,
so that his character doesn't crumble into the stereotype
of a religious farmer harassed for his faith.
June 14, 2005
Copyright © 2006-2015 E. A. Villafranca, Jr.
All Rights Reserved
