Phillip J. Harper was an American

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 voice actor best known as the eponymous hero in the radio serial The Adventures of Harry Nile

The Adventures of Harry Nile

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for more than 27 years.

Harper grew up in Flossmoor, Illinois

Flossmoor, Illinois

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. He joined the United States Army

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 in 1962 and was assigned to a radio station in Berlin

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.

He returned in 1965 and began work as a disc jockey

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. After being cast in about a dozen radio plays written by Jim French

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 at KIRO (AM)

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, French created the first of 158 episodes of The Adventures of Harry Nile in 1977.