Jackson Gillis

Raised in Kalama, Washington, and later relocated to California as a teenager, he pursued higher education first at Fresno State before completing an English degree at Stanford in 1938. After a stint working in England and performing with the Barter Theatre alongside Gregory Peck, he served as an intelligence officer in the Pacific during World War II, then settled in Los Angeles to write for radi… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources