Alan Coe Bunce
Alan Coe Bunce (June 28, 1900– April 27, 1965) was an American radio and television actor.
Bunce was best remembered for playing the role of Albert Arbuckle alongside Peg Lynch on the sitcom Ethel and Albert from 1944-50 on radio and from 1953-1956 on television. Bunce was also remembered as the first actor to portray physician Jerry Malone on radio's Young Doctor Malone in the early 1940s.
Early life
Alan Coe Bunce was born on June 28, 1900 in Westfield, New Jersey. His year of birth had been the subject of dispute, with varying sources citing 1902, 1903, and 1908. However, according to the Bunce family papers which were published publicly in 2008 by Bunce's grandson Andrew Bunce, the Bunce family has found evidence and have excepted Bunce's birth date to be June 28, 1900.
Bunce's year of birth is given as 1900 on his U.S. World War I Draft Registration Card (1917-18) Bunce's age is given as 39 in the United States Census of 1940 (enumerated on April 27, 1940).
Bunce was the only child born to Theodore Dwight Bunce, an inventor, and Alice Edwards Bunce. His mother died when Bunce was a young boy. He graduated from a high school in Melrose, Massachusetts in 1918.