1. Who played Richard Diamond on the radio?
From Quiz Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Answer:
Dick Powell
Born Richard Ewing Powell on November 14, 1904 in Mountain View, Arkansas, USA, second of three sons to Ewing and Sallie Rowena Thompson Powell., Dick Powell was a movie star during Hollywood's golden age. Even before being signed by Warner Bros. in 1932, he had already had a varied career as soda jerk, singer with the touring territorial band of Charlie Davis, and MC, to name a few. For several years in Hollywood, he was cast in lightweight singing rolls in musicals. Eventually, though, he made the move to "serious" acting, landing the part of Philip Marlow in 1944's "Murder My Sweet", produced by RKO. Throughout the rest of the 1940s to the mid '50s he continued to appear primarily in films noirs.
He starred on radio as the wise cracking, singing P.I. Richard Diamond from April 24, 1949 through September 20, 1953.
Dick Powell died January 2, 1963 in West Los Angeles, California of lung cancer.