Tudor Owen(1898-1979)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
This distinctive-looking, bushy-browed, heavy-set Welsh character actor
played dozens of rustics, sea captains, sheriffs, priests and police
officers during a forty-year long career, starting in 1926. His was the
perfect face for period drama. At the peak of his popularity, Owen
co-starred as a first mate in
Captain David Grief (1957),
a South Seas adventure based on stories by
Jack London. During the 1940's and
50's, he was prolific on radio, lending his voice to crime dramas like
"Pursuit" (CBS, 1949-52) and "Pete Kelly's Blues". His best-known role
was that of alcoholic
'wharf-bum' Jocko Madigan, drunk ex-doctor friend and sidekick of star Jack Webb,
in "Pat Novak for Hire". He also voiced Towser in
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)).
played dozens of rustics, sea captains, sheriffs, priests and police
officers during a forty-year long career, starting in 1926. His was the
perfect face for period drama. At the peak of his popularity, Owen
co-starred as a first mate in
Captain David Grief (1957),
a South Seas adventure based on stories by
Jack London. During the 1940's and
50's, he was prolific on radio, lending his voice to crime dramas like
"Pursuit" (CBS, 1949-52) and "Pete Kelly's Blues". His best-known role
was that of alcoholic
'wharf-bum' Jocko Madigan, drunk ex-doctor friend and sidekick of star Jack Webb,
in "Pat Novak for Hire". He also voiced Towser in
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)).