In a radio career that began in the 1920s, the prolific Brown's credits include creating 'Inner Sanctum Mysteries,' which ran 1941-52, and 'CBS Radio Mystery Theater' 1974-82, along with "The Adventures of the Thin Man," "Bulldog Drummond," "Dick Tracy," "Flash Gordon," "The Adventures of Nero Wolfe," "Terry and the Pirates" and many others. Along the way he directed stars such as Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. He was 99.
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