About Jon Hall Born Charles Felix Locher February 23, 1915 in Fresno, California, and raised in Tahiti by his father, the Swiss-born actor Felix Locher, he was a nephew of James Norman Hall, one of the authors of Mutiny on the Bounty. Hall began acting in films in 1935 in minor roles, one of which was Charlie Chan in Shanghai. He achieved success in 1937 when cast opposite another relative newcomer, Dorothy Lamour, in The Hurricane, which was written by James Norman Hall. His double in The Hurricane was the stuntman and actor Paul Stader.

Hall maintained his popularity until the end of the 1940s, usually playing leads in adventure films. In 1940, he portrayed Kit Carson in a biographical film of the frontiersman's life. He is notable for having made six popular Technicolor adventure films with Maria Montez: Arabian Nights (1942), White Savage (1943), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944), Cobra Woman (1944), Gypsy Wildcat (1944), and Sudan (1945).

Jon Hall is perhaps best remembered by classic television fans as the star of the television series Ramar of the Jungle, which ran from 1952 to 1954. Hall directed and starred in the 1965 cult horror film The Beach Girls and the Monster. Jon Hall died December 19, 1979 in California

About Ray MontgomeryA Warner Bros. contract player in the '40s, American actor Ray Montgomery was little more than a handsome face in the crowd in such films as The Hard Way (1942) (he played "Johnny Gilpin," but like everyone else in that film was overshadowed by Ida Lupino) and Action in the North Atlantic (1943). Montgomery's most prominent film role was as the feckless bridegroom in the 1948 comedy June Bride. He remained in films thereafter as a character player, usually in military-oriented pictures like Bombers B-52 (1957) and A Gathering of Eagles (1963).

In 1952, Montgomery was signed to play Prof. Howard Ogden, chemist friend of Africa-based doctor Jon Hall on the popular syndicated TV series Ramar of the Jungle (1952); several Ramar episodes were later sewn together by Lippert Studios and released as ersatz feature films. Upon his retirement from show business, Ray Montgomery opened a real estate agency, building it up into one of California's most successful business ventures.

  


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