Freeman F. Gosden

Age: 83 (passed away Dec. 10th, 1982)
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Birth Place: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Born: Dec. 31st, 1969

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Freeman F. Gosden's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Calvin and the Colonel	Colonel Mon…

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

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TRIVIA:

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith; pg. 17-19, article titled 'Amos and Andy'. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387.
Gosden and 'Charles J. Correll' (qv)'s "Amos 'n' Andy" (1928-1955) was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.
His daughter Virginia Marie was born in the spring of 1930. His son Craig Leigh was born in September, 1949. Virginia and another son were from his first marriage. Craig was from his marriage to Jane Stoneham.
Gosden and his partner 'Charles J. Correll' (qv) began developing their "Amos 'n' Andy" characters, along with over 100 additional minor personalities on Chicago radio in the late 1920s. First heard on WEBH and followed on WGN the team hit gold when they were picked up on NBC's Red Network as a quarter-hour serialized show, captivating audiences each night at 7:00 pm (except Sundays). They were to radio what 'Milton Berle' (qv) would be to TV some 20 years later: they popularized a medium, at one point capturing 60% of all radio listenership and being credited for selling 4.4 million radios.
Profiled in "Old-Time Radio Memories" by Mel Simons (BearManor Media).
Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 240-241. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 1777 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
A longtime friend and neighbor of 'Frank Sinatra' (qv), he was Sinatra's best man at his wedding to fourth wife 'Barbara Marx' (qv) in 1976.

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