The Independent - London, December 14th, 1999
JOHN ARCHER starred in the first Hollywood film to deal seriously with space travel, Destination Moon, one of more than 50 films in which he appeared.
The six-foot, curly haired actor also had a leading role in The Day Before Spring, an early stage musical by the My Fair Lady team of Lerner and Loewe, and a prolific career in radio. In 1944 he took over from Orson Welles as radio's crime-fighter, the Shadow, starting each show with the introduction, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?", then answering his own question with, "The Shadow knows". At the time he was already a radio v...
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