Arch Oboler was a writer, producer, director active in both radio and television.
After selling his first radio scripts while still in high school during the 1920s, Oboler took over the NBC horror anthology, Lights Out, in 1936, and followed in 1939 with Arch Oboler's Plays for CBS. Lights Out was an American old-time radio program featuring tales of the supernatural and the supernormal. ...
He generated quite a bit of attention for his radio scripts: some praised him as one of the best writers the medium had seen, others thought him an over-rated hack who relied too much on grue and shock tactics.
His screenplays include Escape (1940), Gangway for Tomorrow (1943) and On Our Merry Way (1948). He moved into directing with Strange Holiday (1942), followed by Bewitched (1945 for MGM and Five (1951).
In 1952 he made the 3-D feature, Bwana Devil (1952), followed by another 3-D film, The Bubble (1966). Bwana Devil was a 1952 American movie produced by Sidney W. Pink. ...
Chicago-born ArchOboler and the radio industry literally grew up together; Oboler sold his first radio scripts in the '20s, while he was still in high school.
In 1939, CBS hired Oboler to oversee a wide-ranging radio anthology, ArchOboler's Plays; this program was distinguished by its near-poetic prose, politically charged themes, and stream-of-consciousness narratives.
Oboler's first film directing job (from his own script) was Strange Holiday (1942), a cautionary anti-Fascist piece originally intended to be shown only to employees of General Motors.
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