Britt Reid | |
Aliases: | Green Hornet |
Series: | The Green Hornet |
Notability: | Main character |
Occupation: | Superhero |
Gender: | Male |
Location: | Chicago, Illinois |
Associations: | Daily Sentinel |
Relatives: | Dan Reid, Jr. John Reid |
Status: | Alive |
First: | Green Hornet (1936) |
Actor: | Gordon Jones Van Williams Seth Rogen |
Britt Reid is a fictional masked adventurer known as the Green Hornet. The character was created by by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker and debuted in the Green Hornet radio dramatization, which was broadcast from 1936 to 1952. The character has since branched off into a few movies in the 1940s, a Green Hornet television series in the 1960s and a Green Hornet feature film in 2011, as well as numerous comic book titles by various publications. Several actors have portrayed the Green Hornet over the years, most notably, Gordon Jones in the Green Hornet serial in 1940, Van Williams in the television series and Seth Rogen in the feature film.