Once inside, he read an audition for Norman Corwin and gained the juvenile lead for the program being cast.
[4] While Kane was stationed at Camp Fannin in 1943, he helped with Orson Welles's production of a radio program "to officially launch the Fifth War Loan drive.
[7] Kane appeared on many radio programs during the 1940s and '50s, including Favorite Story, Gunsmoke, The NBC University Theater, Plays for Americans, Suspense, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and On Stage.
[8][9][10] Kane served as associate producer of Blake Edwards' detective television series Peter Gunn (1958-61); He also appeared uncredited in the show in the recurring role of Barney, the bartender.
[18] Byron Kane died in Los Angeles on April 10, 1984, two weeks after suffering a heart attack.