Charles E. Fuller

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Dr. Charles Edward Fuller (April 25, 1887 - March 18, 1968) was an American Christian clergyman and a radio evangelist.

Charles Fuller was born in Los Angeles, California. He became a Baptist minister and gained renown as the radio host of "The Old Fashioned Revival Hour" Sunday broadcast that aired for more than thirty years, from 1937 to 1968, and grew to be broadcast by more than 650 radio stations nationwide.

The Old Fashioned Revial Hour gained Fuller international fame. The broadcast was originally recorded in a Hollywood studio. In 1941, it was moved to the Municiple Auditorium in Long Beach, California. From 1941 through 1958, audiences attended services that were broadcast live on the radio. The broadcasts owed their success largely to the music featured by a quartet and a chorus accompanied by George Broadbent on the organ and famed gospel musician Rudy Atwood at the piano. Audiences often admitted they came to the broadcast just to see Atwood play. In 1958, the broadcast was moved once again to another Hollywood studio and was cut from one hour to thirty minutes.

In addition to his broadcasts, Fuller was a co-founder of the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

Charles Fuller died in 1968 right after his last broadcast on the Old Fashioned Revival Hour. He was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.