Alexander Woollcott

Radio
Billed as The Early Bookworm Woollcott was first heard on CBS Radio in October 1929 reviewing books in various timeslots until 1933. He was caricatured twice in Warner Brothers cartoons in 1937: as "Owl Kott" in The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos and as the town crier in Have You Got Any Castles? playing almost identical roles in each. Woollcott continued adding "Germany was the cause of Hitler.

Kaufman and Moss Hart and for the far less likable character Waldo Lydecker in the 1944 film Laura (1944). He was the inspiration for Sheridan Whiteside the main character in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) by George S. Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19 1887 – January 23 1943) was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine and a member of the Algonquin Round Table.