Eddie Vogt

Biography

John Edward (Eddie) Vogt had a long career in vaudeville, on stage and in films, mostly silent. His earliest films were made in at the Wharton Studios in Ithaca, New York. He was the son of John Christian Vogt and Mary Gertrude Trunk. Around 1922, while living at 564 Riverside Drive in New York City, he married a Goldie Hunt. In the early 1920s he created a long-running act with fellow vaudevillian Frank Hurst, who acted as singer and straight man to Vogt's comedy. They were well received in theatres across the United States, and were starred in a Vitaphone short entitled "Before the Bar (1929)" in 1929. His dark and mature good looks made him suitable for the brief part of radio announcer in the 1933 Vitaphone short "Isham Jones & His Orchestra (1934)." In 1937, he moved to Saranac Lake, New York for tuberculosis treatment at Will Rogers Memorial Hospital (built in 1928-'29 as the National Vaudeville Artists Lodge). After regaining his health he became an X-Ray assistant there and lived in the N.V.A. Home. In the 1940s Vogt became a radio personality (playing old records) on station WNBZ and wrote a very popular newspaper column, "Our Town," for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. Following an illness he reduced his daily column to weekly. He died of tuberculosis in 1960. The N.V.A. home closed it doors in 1975. His widow died in Tonawanda in1976.