Shelby Storck

Shelby William Storck (October 3, 1916 – April 5, 1969) was an American newscaster, actor, writer, journalist, public relations specialist, and motion picture and television producer-director. He was a radio actor on The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen and other programs, and appeared in the feature films The Delinquents and The Cool and the Crazy.

A descendant of General Joseph O. Shelby, Shelby Storck was born in Kansas City, Missouri and graduated from the University of Kansas City, now the University of Missouri-Kansas City, in 1937. Storck worked as a newscaster for the Kansas City Star and its affiliated radio station WDAF from 1939 until he joined the Navy in 1942. A Navy pilot, he rose to the rank of lieutenant before being honorably discharged in 1945. Two of his years of service had been in the Mediterranean theater, where he saw action during World War II.

On returning to Kansas City, Storck rejoined WDAF and again became a newscaster but soon moved on to become a member of the staff of T. R. Finn & Associates, a Kansas City company, as its publicity director. He was assistant director of education and organization for the Consumers Cooperative Association from 1947 to 1949 and was public relations director and assistant manager of the North Kansas City Development Company in 1949 and 1950. He was also a semi-professional actor in local radio, television, civic theater, and in films made in the Kansas City area. Storck's first wife, the former Barbara Marsh, died of bulbar polio in 1950. He later established a Barbara Storck Memorial award for poetry at the University of Kansas City in her memory.

Shelby Storck continued in radio and television work through the 1950s, working between Kansas City and St. Louis, making documentary films which he often narrated as well as produced. He frequently acted in industrial and educational films produced by the Calvin Company of Kansas City and by the Centron Corporation of Lawrence, Kansas. There, he worked with such notable directors as Robert Altman and Herk Harvey. In 1954 he became general manager of KETC in St. Louis, an educational television station.

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