{"id":45,"date":"2022-12-18T21:48:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T02:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/?p=45"},"modified":"2022-12-18T21:48:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T02:48:59","slug":"mandel-kramer-radio-and-tv-crimefighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/45\/mandel-kramer-radio-and-tv-crimefighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandel Kramer, Radio and TV Crimefighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The actor Mandel Kramer portrayed the police chief Bill Marceau on the TV soap Edge of Night for 20 years, receiving a Daytime Emmy nomination for best supporting actor in 1979. His run was the second longest for an actor on the soap behind Ann Flood as Nancy Karr.<\/p>\n<p>Even before he broke into television, Kramer fought crime on radio as <a href=\"https:\/\/winnetoba.com\/news\/26\/mandel-kramer-commits-crimes-tv-solves\">Harry Peters on CounterSpy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ordinarily, on other programs in which he appears, Mandel Kramer is a two-faced, ornery killer, as likely to be erased on a show as not. It is seldom Kramer lasts to the end of any show &#8212; except on CounterSpy, where he is Harry Peters, the hard-working associate of David Harding. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In 1943, he tried out for Harry Peters, got the part, and has been successfully solving cases with David Harding week after week. When he&#8217;s not doing Harry, he spends the rest of his working hours getting bumped off on other programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actor Mandel Kramer portrayed the police chief Bill Marceau on the TV soap Edge of Night for 20 years, receiving a Daytime Emmy nomination for best supporting actor in 1979. His run was the second longest for an actor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/45\/mandel-kramer-radio-and-tv-crimefighter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}