Allyn Joslyn's voice was heard over a 40-year spell on American radio.

Born in Milford, Pennsylvania, and the son of a mining engineer, Joslyn first worked as an office boy. His stage debut was at 17 on Broadway and his Hollywood screen debut was in 1937. He often played the foil to this star or that but devious schemer types were also a large part of his forte.

Often confused with Jerome Cowan, a very similar type of actor, they were products of the studio system of that time and a testimony to the versatility required. Joslyn breezed through Only Angels Have Wings (Columbia 1939) and they even made him an angel in The Horn Blows At Midnight (Warner Bos 1945).

He could be absolute perfection when playing nervous fidgets. Allyn appeared on many TV shows, including Ray Bolger's and Eve Arden's.

He was still guesting quite late on in TV cameo roles in such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Adams Family, Gunsmoke and The Untouchables.

Serving his profession admirably, he was a trouper right up to the end, dying in 1981 aged 79.

-Gordon Dean, Lancing