thumb|250px|Clellan Card

Clellan Card (June 24, 1903–April 13, 1966) was an on-air personality at the Minnesota Television station WCCO best known for the dozen years when he played Axel Torgeson on the local children's show Axel and His Dog. Card was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and spent most of his life in the Twin Cities region, although he attended Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He dropped out of Rutgers in 1926, moved back with his parents, and worked at various jobs before starting in radio. His first broadcasting job was doing voice work for a fishing tackle commercial.

He married Marion Satterlee in 1928 and had three boys from their union, Clellan Peter, 1929, John Brooke, 1934, and Michael Satterlee, 1939.

The Axel character, a loony "Scandihoovian", was created by Card in the late 1930s on a morning radio show on WCCO AM called Almanac of the Air.

References

  • Michael S. Card, youngest son of Clellan Card.
  • Axel and His Dog
  • Excerpt from "Lost Twin Cities II": Axel and His Dog