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] Columbia Pictures Corporation made a series of ten (10) "Crime Doctor" low-budget, mystery, thriller films from 1943 through 1949.^[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. Collins played Dr. John Carey, the Crime Doctor's doctor. Baxter was in poor health, and two years after making the tenth film, he died of pneumonia.

In March 2014, the "Crime Doctor" film series was shown on GetTV, an American digital multicast television network owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Sony acquired Columbia Pictures Corporation in 1989.

Films

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

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ron Miller. "Two Classic Mystery Series". thecolumnists.com. Retrieved 2007-11-06. 
2. ↑ "Crime Doctor (1943) THE SCREEN; Amnesia Again". movies.nytimes.com. July 5, 1943. Retrieved 2007-11-06. 

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