RKO Radio Pictures · Public domain

A prolific radio actor who moved to film as Mr. Bernstein in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941), his breakthrough role, and went on to work with Welles again as the villainous lawyer Arthur Bannister in The Lady from Shanghai (1947). He later voiced Dick Tracy across 130 cartoons and appeared in The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, and The Twilight Zone. He died by suicide in 1965, having said he feared losing his sight to glaucoma.