Fran Striker

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Francis Hamilton "Fran" Striker (born August 19, 1903 in Buffalo , New York , † September 4, 1962 in Erie County , New York) was an American author . His most famous figure is the Lone Ranger .

Life

In 1933, Striker began working for the WXYZ radio station in Detroit . He delivered up to five episodes for various radio plays per week . When the station's owner, George Trendle, needed a western series, Striker created the Lone Ranger. By 1956, 2956 episodes had aired. The first film was made in 1938. Striker was also responsible for the newspaper strips and several episodes of the TV series with Clayton Moore .

With The Green Hornet , Striker created another very successful figure. The series aired from 1936 to 1952. It also drew a television series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee and a 2011 film with Seth Rogen .

This was followed in 1938 by a series about the secret agent Ned Jordan and a gold digger series Challenge of the Yukon .

Striker was also the author of several episodes of the series Adventures Of the Sea Hound about Captain Silver and wrote eight Tom Quest youth novels between 1947 and 1955 .

Striker died in 1962 as a result of a car accident. His grave is in the Arcade Rural Cemetery in Wyoming .

Works

  • 1947: Sign of the Spiral (A Tom Quest Adventure)
  • 1947: The Telltale Scar (A Tom Quest Adventure)
  • 1948: The Clue of the Cypress Stump (A Tom Quest Adventure)
  • 1949: The Secret of the lost Mesa (A Tom Quest Adventure)
  • 1950: The Hidden Stone Mystery (A Tom Quest Adventure)
  • 1951: The Prairie Wolf, Volume 1, Buchfilm Verlag (reprinted in 1989 by Incos Verlag)
  • 1952: The Secret of Thunder Mountain (A Tom Quest Adventure)
  • 1955: The Clue of the Inca Luck Piece (A Tom Quest Adventure)
  • 1955: The Mystery of the Timber Giant (A Tom Quest Adventure)
  • 1956: Sergeant Preston and Rex
  • 1977: Lone Ranger - Savior and avenger of the oppressed (The Lone Ranger) , Heyne ISBN 3453541413
  • 1994: One More River

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Lone Ranger on npr.org , January 14, 2008
  2. ↑ The Green Hornet in the radio archive (English), accessed August 14, 2019
  3. ↑ Portrait in the Radio Hall of Fame , accessed August 14, 2019
  4. ↑ List of episodes with table of contents , accessed August 14, 2019
  5. ↑ Presentation of the author on fantasicfiction.com , accessed August 14, 2019
  6. ↑ Personal data on find a grave (English), June 20, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Striker, Fran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Striker, Francis Hamilton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1962
Place of death Erie County , New York