John Hiestand

Biography

John "Bud" Hallam Hiestand was an American actor and announcer born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1907. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in political science in 1930 and began his career in radio as an actor in the early 1930s. After World War II, he worked for the US Office of War Information and later appeared in films and TV series, including his role as the announcer in the 1953 film "The Glass Web".