Margaret Ruth Draper, an actress who worked in the theater, radio and television, and later became a DJ, onstage and on radio and later a DJ, died October 14, 2011. She was 94.

According to news reports, she died of natural causes.

The Utah native began performing as a child and studied drama at the University of Utah. She then moved to New York, where she aspired to become a stage actress. Her first work came at the Provincetown Theater in Massachusetts; she later joined the Chekhov Theater Players overseen by Michael Chekhov.

During the Second World War she spent two years working with the Red Cross in Europe and the Middle East. She then returned to New York and resumed performing.

In 1947 she made her radio debut in the CBS program Joe Powers of Oakville. From 1949 to 1954she played Liz Dennis in radio soap Brighter Day, which led to another popular radio drama, Pepper Young's Family, starring Burgess Meredith.

IN the 1950s she had roles in the television series Robert Montgomery Presents, Lights Out, Inner Sanctum and The Violators.

During the early 1960s, she made numerous radio and television commercials in New York.

In 1966 Draper became a disc jockey for the all-woman radio station WNEW-FM New York.

In 1969, she joined the United Seamen’s Service. Her first assignment was as the assistant director of the club in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. In 1970, the Vietnam club was closed because of the war, and she was transferred to the club in Naples, Italy, as director, where she served until 1972.

Draper was married four times.

She is survived by a son and two sisters.