Clark Andrews; Early Director of 'Big Town'

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Clark Andrews, one of the early directors of radio’s famous “Big Town” who married one of the show’s co-stars, Claire Trevor, is dead at age 76.

He died Friday in Los Angeles but his death was not announced until Monday.

In addition to “Big Town,” Andrews also directed “The Fat Man,” a 1945 radio show created by Dashiell Hammett, “Famous Jury Trials,” “The Clock” and “Rogue’s Gallery.”

Trevor was playing Lorelei Kilbourne, the society editor of the mythical Illustrated Press, opposite Edward G. Robinson, who played Steve Wilson, the paper’s editor, when she and Andrews met.

They married in 1938 and were divorced in 1942.

Andrews also had been a program director in New York and was in charge of Armed Forces Radio stations in China during World War II.

His survivors include his wife, the former Glenn Ellis; a daughter, Candice Andrews; a stepdaughter, Katherine Dougherty; a stepson, Robert Mann.

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