It was said at his funeral that during his live audience radio variety shows he insisted all performers provide a script, in advance. He almost refused to allow a vaudeville act to perform live when they failed to produce their script.
Second husband of Sheena Easton.
Signed Armed Forces Network Radio on the air for the first time during WWII in Europe. Along with a fellow actor, Broderick Crawford, he built and organized the first U.S. Army radio station. Light then became the first commander of AFN, headquartered in the Pentagon.
Taught advertising and radio broadcasting in the Los Angeles Community College school system for twenty years.
Wrote and directed the first Television show for NBC.