EDGAR BERGEN
Name: Edgar John Bergren
Born: February 16, 1903 Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: September 30, 1978 Las Vegas, Nevada
Edgar John Bergen (February 16, 1903 - September 30, 1978) was an Academy Award-winning
American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist.
Bergen was born Edgar John Bergen in Chicago, Illinois, to a Swedish family and
grew up in Decatur, Michigan. He taught himself ventriloquism from a pamphlet
when he was eleven. A few years later he commissioned Chicago woodcarver
Theodore Mack to sculpt a likeness of a rascally Irish newspaperboy he knew. The
head went on a puppet named Charlie McCarthy, who became Bergen's lifelong
sidekick. At age sixteen, he came to Chicago, where he attended Lake View High
School and worked at a silent movie house.
Name: Edgar John Bergren
Born: February 16, 1903 Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: September 30, 1978 Las Vegas, Nevada
Edgar John Bergen (February 16, 1903 - September 30, 1978) was an Academy Award-winning
American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist.
Bergen was born Edgar John Bergen in Chicago, Illinois, to a Swedish family and
grew up in Decatur, Michigan. He taught himself ventriloquism from a pamphlet
when he was eleven. A few years later he commissioned Chicago woodcarver
Theodore Mack to sculpt a likeness of a rascally Irish newspaperboy he knew. The
head went on a puppet named Charlie McCarthy, who became Bergen's lifelong
sidekick. At age sixteen, he came to Chicago, where he attended Lake View High
School and worked at a silent movie house.