Lester Tremayne[1] (16 April 1913 – 19 December 2003) was a British born American actor, who performed in Vaudeville, film, theatre, radio, and TV.

Those roles included interviewing people who were active in early radio to provide source material for researchers.

In 1963, Tremayne appeared in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of Constant Doyle", along with special guest attorney Bette Davis.

In that show, he played the part of a cunning opportunist who happens onto off-duty Barney Fife who himself believes that he is stalking a jewel thief (Allan Melvin) who is in fact the house detective of the hotel where the story takes place.

[citation needed] In 1965, Tremayne played Mr. Clary in My Favorite Martian, season 2, episode 30, titled "006 3/4".

[13]: 956 One of his most iconic performances would come in 1983, as the voice of the Wishing Well in the Looney Tunes compilation film Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island.

In 1987, Tremayne appeared on General Hospital as Edward Quartermaine for six months, the oldest character in that series, as a temporary replacement for David Lewis.

He did an afternoon talk show on WOR in 1949, The Tremaynes,[14] with his second wife, Alice Reinhart, whom he married on 9 December 1945.

[3] On 19 December 2003, Tremayne died of heart failure at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 90.