He was the hero of a popular CBS radio program titled Crime Doctor on Sunday nights between 1940 and 1947, as well as a series of low-budget mystery thrillers inspired by the radio show. On radio, he was played by Ray Collins, House Jameson, Everett Sloane and John McIntire, but on film, exclusively by Warner Baxter. In the first film of the series, he regains his memory, captures his former gang members, and turns them over to the police. As an in-joke, Collins appeared in the film, but not as Ordway. Baxter was in poor health, and two years after making the tenth film, he died of pneumonia.

Films

• Crime Doctor (1943)
• Crime Doctor's Strangest Case (1943)
• Shadows in the Night (1944)
• Crime Doctor's Warning (1945)
• The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945)
• Just Before Dawn (1946)
• Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946)
• The Millerson Case (1947)
• Crime Doctor's Gamble (1947)
• The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949)

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