Fenton Earnshaw

Fenton Earnshaw was born on Aug 02, 1912 in USA. Fenton Earnshaw's big-screen debut came with Killer at Large directed by William Beaudine in 1947.

Fenton William Earnshaw was born in Duluth, St. Louis County, MN on 2 August 1912 to Harry Alfred Earnshaw (1878-1953) and Vena Minnie, nee Radtke (1877-1959). Both of his parents are buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. He attended UCLA, then known as "the Southern Campus", graduating in 1936 with a BA in Political Science. He was the president of the Blackstonians, a "pre-legal society" and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He was also a colonel in the ROTC. He married Dorcas Abbott Brown on 7 June 1938 in Orange County, California. They had a son named Peter, born 12 March 1943. Dorcas died in September, 1994. When he registered for the draft on 16 October 1940, he and Mrs. Earnshaw resided at 1520 Surf Avenue in Balboa, California. Their phone number was NEwport-1895. He initially joined the Army in WWII, but, he told the Los Angeles Times in a 22 December 1952 article, he switched to the Navy, "and eventually found himself commanding a landing craft. He received a summons to report to Washington and before he knew what had happened was assigned to the OSS [Office of Strategic Services, predecessor to the CIA]." "One of his first assignments was to land in Formosa and blow up a Japanese naval dock." He escaped by posing as member of a Chinese burial party. USN records from 1944 list Earnshaw as a Lt. JG as of July, 1943. As for writing for the early TV series