Nelson Olmsted was an actor in films and recordings, and on radio and television, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Sometimes billed as Nelson Olmstead, he was best known for an unusual NBC radio series, Sleep No More (1956–57), in which he narrated his own adaptations of terror tales and science-fantasy stories.
Olmsted and his two children in 1947.
Nelson Olmsted narrated and acted in over 150 episodes of the Ohio Story television series. Image courtesy of Hagley Museum and Library
Stuart Buchanan was an American voice actor, announcer, radio and TV producer, and educator. He is known for his work at The Walt Disney Company as a casting director and voicing the Huntsman in the animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and voicing Goofy in The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air (1938).
Stuart Buchanan, producer of the film Milestones of Motoring seated in front row (1954), with the film's cast and crew. Photo courtesy of the Hagley Museum & Library.
Frank Siedel (left) was the scriptwriter and Buchanan was the producer for 1,300 radio and 175 TV episodes of the Ohio Story. Photo courtesy of the Hagley Museum & Library.