 As well, he played Matthew Cuthbert in the 1956 CBC film adaptation of "Anne of Green Gables", and the narrator in the CBC's 1952 series "Sunshine Sketches".Drainie began his career in radio with CJOR, CKNW and CBU in Vancouver.He was one of a group of actors, including Fletcher Markle, Alan Young, Lister Sinclair, Len Peterson, Arthur Hill, Bernie Braden and Andrew Allan, who emerged in Vancouver prior to World War II, and eventually moved to Toronto to become part of the CBC's "Golden Age of Radio".