Actor Russell Arms dies at 92

Singer-actor Russell Arms, who made an appearance regularly like a singer on NBC musical program "Your Hit Parade" within the nineteen fifties, died February. 13 in Hamilton, Ill. He was 92. Arms and also the other regulars around the popular Saturday-evening show, which in fact had begun on radio, carried out the week's seven most widely used tunes. After their studies at the Pasadena Playhouse, he started his showbiz career right before World war 2 when Warner Bros. signed him to some contract. He earned his feature debut in "The Guy Who Found Dinner," with Bette Davis and Monty Woolley, and made an appearance in a number of war films for that studio prior to being drafted themself. In their military service he earned training films for that Military Signal Corps and also the Military Air Forces. After coming back to Warners and showing up in many Westerns, he moved forward to radio roles. Arms were built with a relatively substantial supporting role within the 1953 Doris Day film "Through the Light from the Silvery Moon." He left "Your Hit Parade" in 1958 and subsequently did guest focus on TV for many years, showing up on "Have Gun -- Will Travel," "Rawhide," "Perry Mason," "Dragnet," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," "Mod Squad" and "The Paper Chase." Arms made his last screen appearance inside a 1985 episode of "Hardcastle and McCormick." Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com