[4][5] He later played the doomed CBS reporter Carl Phillips in the 1938 radio production of The War of the Worlds.
Readick modeled his performance on WLS reporter Herbert Morrison's coverage of the Hindenburg disaster the previous year.
[6] Readick later appeared alongside his War of the Worlds co-star and Mercury Theatre director Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941) and Journey into Fear (1943).
On old-time radio, Readick was a member of the casts of The FBI in Peace and War[7]: 116 and The Campbell Playhouse.
[7] He had the title roles in The Adventures of Smilin' Jack[7]: 307 and Meet Mr. Meek,[7]: 224 and portrayed Knobby Walsh on Joe Palooka.