Edwards, Dick Powell originated the role of Nightclub owner Willie Dante in several episodes of “Four Star Playhouse” from 1952-1956. The series co-stars Regis Toomey as Lt. Manny Waldo.
Four Star production
NBC (Mondays 9:30 pm EST)
Detective series 1960-61
26 episodes/30 min black & white
starring
Howard Duff
as Willie Dante
with:
Alan Mowbray
as Stewart Styles
Tom D'Andrea as Biff
James Nolan as Inspector Loper
The story of Willie Dante, a former gambler-turned owner of the
San Francisco-based nightclub "Dante's Inferno". Dante takes his
shady history, and old-time buddies Biff and Stewart, into the operation
of his legit nightclub, but neither the cops nor the bad guys really believe
he's done with the underworld however.
