Joe Rockhold(1905-1982)
- Actor
Joseph Glenn Rockhold was born in Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, USA and passed away on 31 August 1982.
Rockhold played the title character of "The Uncle Orrie Show", a live audience show, on WHIO-TV in the 1950's and 1960's, and entertained an estimated 200,000 other children a year in personal appearances. He retire in 1968 after 35 years in broadcasting. A farm boy from Hillsboro, Rockhold had also held the title of farm director for WHIO Radio. He had produced several programs dealing with rural life including Valley Farmer and Urban and Suburban.
Rockhold became a radio and television performer following World War II after taking a fling in the recording distribution business and later trying station management in Lancaster, Chillicothe and Bellefontaine.
After jobs in radio stations in Columbus and Detroit, where he played folksy characters on locally produced shows, Mr. Rockhold went to WSPD, a new Toledo station being started by Lou Emm, now the morning personality for WHIO Radio.
He was a newscaster and he also did a down-home program where he did all the voices.
Rockhold then went to Chicago's WLS where he appeared on Barn Dance and acted on NBC soap opera's. He play Lou Hanks on the Uncle Ezra show and was Doc Green on the Tom Mix show.
Rockhold followed Emm to WHIO in the early 1950's. Soon he was featured on the Uncle Orrie Show with Ken Hardin as Ferdie Fussbudget and Jack Jacobson on Nosey the Clown.
Rockhold played the title character of "The Uncle Orrie Show", a live audience show, on WHIO-TV in the 1950's and 1960's, and entertained an estimated 200,000 other children a year in personal appearances. He retire in 1968 after 35 years in broadcasting. A farm boy from Hillsboro, Rockhold had also held the title of farm director for WHIO Radio. He had produced several programs dealing with rural life including Valley Farmer and Urban and Suburban.
Rockhold became a radio and television performer following World War II after taking a fling in the recording distribution business and later trying station management in Lancaster, Chillicothe and Bellefontaine.
After jobs in radio stations in Columbus and Detroit, where he played folksy characters on locally produced shows, Mr. Rockhold went to WSPD, a new Toledo station being started by Lou Emm, now the morning personality for WHIO Radio.
He was a newscaster and he also did a down-home program where he did all the voices.
Rockhold then went to Chicago's WLS where he appeared on Barn Dance and acted on NBC soap opera's. He play Lou Hanks on the Uncle Ezra show and was Doc Green on the Tom Mix show.
Rockhold followed Emm to WHIO in the early 1950's. Soon he was featured on the Uncle Orrie Show with Ken Hardin as Ferdie Fussbudget and Jack Jacobson on Nosey the Clown.