James Jewell (director)

[1] Jewell first got into radio in 1927. with a background of summer stock, vaudeville, burlesque, and even touring with a troupe of marionettes.

"Ke-mo sah-bee", Tonto's greeting to the masked Ranger, was derived from the name of a boys' camp owned by Jewell's father-in-law Charles W. Yeager.

[4],[5] Jewell produced, directed and occasionally wrote many of the early episodes for the popular series The Manhunter as well as The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.

She played Lenore Case, the Green Hornet's secretary, for 28 years and is in the Radio Hall of Fame.

As the era of radio dramatic series came to an end, attempted to bring The Silver Eagle to television.

He was 6 feet tall, 200 lbs, black hair and a clipped mustache, In his later years he built marionettes as a hobby in a workshop in the basement of his home in Evanston, Illinois.