Crime Doctor (character)

The Crime Doctor is a fictional character created by Max Marcin.^[1] A crook named Phil Morgan suffers amnesia and becomes criminal psychologist Dr. Robert Ordway.

He was the hero of a popular CBS radio program titled Crime Doctor on Sunday nights between 1940 and 1947,^[1] as well as a series of low-budget mystery thrillers inspired by the radio show.^[2] On radio, he was played by Ray Collins, House Jameson, Everett Sloane and John McIntire,^[1] but on film, exclusively by Warner Baxter. In the first film of the series, he regains his memory, captures his former gang members, and turns them over to the police. As an in-joke, Collins appeared in the film, but not as Ordway. Baxter was in poor health, and two years after making the tenth film, he died of pneumonia.

Films

• Crime Doctor (1943)
• Crime Doctor's Strangest Case (1943)
• Shadows in the Night (1944)
• Crime Doctor's Warning (1945)
• The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945)
• Just Before Dawn (1946)
• Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946)
• The Millerson Case (1947)
• Crime Doctor's Gamble (1947)
• The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Ron Miller. "Two Classic Mystery Series". thecolumnists.com. http://www.thecolumnists.com/miller/miller609.html. Retrieved 2007-11-06. 
2. ^ "Crime Doctor (1943) THE SCREEN; Amnesia Again". movies.nytimes.com. July 5, 1943. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9907EEDA1139E33BBC4D53DFB1668388659EDE. Retrieved 2007-11-06. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Crime Doctor at the Internet Movie Database
• Crime Doctor's Strangest Case at the Internet Movie Database
• Shadows in the Night at the Internet Movie Database
• Crime Doctor's Warning at the Internet Movie Database
• The Crime Doctor's Courage at the Internet Movie Database
• Just Before Dawn at the Internet Movie Database
• Crime Doctor's Man Hunt at the Internet Movie Database
• Crime Doctor's Gamble at the Internet Movie Database
• The Crime Doctor's Diary at the Internet Movie Database
• The Millerson Case at the Internet Movie Database
• MP3 files of radio episodes at archive.org