Departures of note

Peggy Webber was an American actress and writer whose career spanned radio, film, stage, and television for more than seven decades. Born in Laredo, Texas, she debuted on radio at age 12 on WOAI in San Antonio, and by the mid-1940s her versatile voice had supplied some 150 different characters across roughly 2,500 broadcasts, a feat highlighted in Time magazine. She shared microphones with Basil Rathbone, Lionel Barrymore, Harold Lloyd, and Herbert Marshall, and appeared on programs including The Dreft Star Playhouse, Dragnet, Pete Kelly's Blues, and The Man Called X.

On screen, Webber made her film debut in 1946 and played Lady Macduff in Orson Welles' 1948 adaptation of Macbeth. She also appeared in Submarine Command and in Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man, and starred in the 1958 horror film The Screaming Skull. On television she was seen in Dragnet, Kings Row, Cheyenne, and Gunsmoke, and she created an early television program that evolved into the hit series Our Miss Brooks.

In 1984 Webber founded California Artists Radio Theatre, dedicated to reviving the art of radio drama, and she wrote, directed, and produced hundreds of audio programs. In 2014 she became the first woman to receive the Norman Corwin Award for Excellence in Audio Theatre, honoring a lifetime of achievement in the sonic arts.