 From the '30s through the '50s, Neil Reagan, brother of Ronald Reagan, directed the radio series "Dr. Christian", starring Jean Hersholt.In 1939, Hersholt helped form the Motion Picture Relief Fund to support industry employees with medical care when they were down on their luck.The fund was used to create the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, and it led to the creation in 1956 of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, an honorary Academy Award given to an "individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry".