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2 unusual facts about Arch Oboler


Charles Lampkin

He played the character of Charles in Arch Oboler's Five, the first science fiction film about a Nuclear Holocaust.

Oboler

Arch Oboler (1909–1987), American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, and director


Raymond Edward Johnson

When both Oboler and Johnson relocated to New York City, the actor was featured in many episodes of Arch Oboler's Plays, notably as the title role in "The Ugliest Man in the World" (repeated five times) and as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in "This Lonely Heart" both from 1939.

The Society of the Spectacle

On November 26, 1952, at the Paramount Theatre (Oakland, California), the premiere screening of the film Bwana Devil by Arch Oboler took place as the first full-length, color 3-D (aka 'Natural Vision') motion picture.


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