Jimmy Wallington Explained

Jimmy Wallington
Show:	The Big Show, The Fred Allen Show/Texaco Star Theater, The Life of Riley
Station:	NBC, CBS
Style:	Announcer
Country:	United States

Jimmy Wallington was an American radio personality.

After playing small roles in a few Hollywood films, he was the announcer for several popular radio shows in the 1940s and 1950s.

For his work on radio, Wallington has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6660 Hollywood Blvd.^[1]

Biography

Wallington was the announcer for several popular radio shows in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, including Texaco Star Theatre with Fred Allen (1941–44) and Texaco Town with Eddie Cantor. As with most announcers, Wallington would announce the program's star, then read the sponsor's commercials. In addition, he was often given comedy lines. When radio shows moved to television, he continued as a television announcer in the 1950s. (see the Filmography section)

After years as a radio announcer, he became a TV star in California doing Life Insurance and other commercials. He ended his professional radio career as a Voice of America radio announcer in the Worldwide English service.^[2]

Filmography

Movies

• Joe Palooka in Triple Cross (1951) .... Himself^[3]
• Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938) .... Nick Nichols^[3]
• Start Cheering (1938) .... Announcer^[3]

Radio

• During August 1934 toured, with the Three X Sisters, Mary Small, and other entertainers, as NBC radio personality at the famous Steel Pier music hot spot.
• The Alan Young Show ... himself - announcer^[4]
• The Big Show (1950–1951) .... Himself - Announcer^[5]
• The Life of Riley (1949–1951) .... Himself - Announcer
• Screen Director's Playhouse (1949–1951) .... Himself - Announcer
• Stranger Than Fiction (1934–1939) .... Himself - Announcer
• The Fred Allen Show (1940s) .... Himself - Announcer^[2]
• The Martin and Lewis Show (1949–51) . . . Himself - Announcer^[2]

Announcer NBC radio mid-1930s https://www.myspace.com/my/photos/photo/22962106/ Jimmy Wallington radio NBC

Television

• Panic (1958) .... Radio Announcer (1 episode)
• Toast of the Town (1955) .... Himself (1 episode)
• This Is Your Life (1954) .... Himself (1 episode)
• The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1953) .... Himself - Announcer^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wallington . Jimmy . Hollywood Walk of Fame Directory . 2007-11-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071019054846/http://www.hollywoodchamber.net/icons/walk_directory.asp . 2007-10-19 . dead .
2. Web site: Wallington. Jimmy. Old Radio Forums. 2007-11-25. 2011-07-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20110723232605/http://forums.oldradio.net/ftopic1626.html. dead.
3. News: Wallington . Jimmy . NY Times Filmography . 2007-11-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110519191750/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/74411/Jimmy-Wallington/filmography . Movies & TV Dept. . . 2011 . May 19, 2011 .
4. Sies, Luther F. (2014). Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960, 2nd Edition, Volume 1. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 16.
5. Web site: Wallington. Jimmy. Premier Collections - The Big Show Volume 1. 2007-11-25. 2007-08-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20070814115635/http://www.radioarchives.org/sets/PC33.htm. dead.
6. Web site: Stiller . Jerry . Stiller Mania - Chapter 12 "Seeing Eddie Cantor" . 2007-11-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110717005040/http://www.thekingofqueens.com/stiller.php?show=14 . 2011-07-17 .