Jerry Dunphy

Nacimiento : 1921-06-09, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Muerte : 2002-05-20

Historia

Jerry Dunphy was an American television news anchor in the Los Angeles/Southern California media market. He was best known for his intro "From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California, a good evening." After serving as a pilot in World War II, Dunphy began his broadcast television career in 1953. He was the news director/anchor at then-CBS owned-and-operated (O&O) WXIX (now CW affiliated WVTV) in Milwaukee. Dunphy also was a sports reporter at another CBS O&O, WBBM-TV, in Chicago. Dunphy also served as a color commentator for Green Bay Packers telecasts on CBS in 1956. In 1960, Dunphy took over the anchor chair at the Los Angeles CBS O&O station KNXT (now KCBS-TV), where he anchored Los Angeles' most popular newscast, later titled "The Big News", a program that often attracted a quarter of Los Angeles television owners, ratings unheard of in the market. He was still popular when fired in 1975, yet KNXT sought to adopt a faster-paced, "Eyewitness News" type format. It was then that Dunphy joined KABC-TV, bringing it to the top of the ratings, making it Southern California's news leader. Since Dunphy's unceremonious firing, Channel 2 never recovered in the ratings, until the mid-2000s. Dunphy left KABC-TV in 1989 and joined the upstart KCAL-TV that July (when it was still KHJ-TV) as one of the pioneering anchors of the three-hour primetime news format, "Prime 9 News". He returned to KCBS-TV in 1995 and remained until 1997 as an anchorman, and rejoined KCAL-TV in 1997, where he remained until his death. Dunphy was one of the first newscasters to interview President Richard Nixon after his resignation in 1974. He would later sit down with Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford. Dunphy also performed regular cameos in L.A.-based films including Warning Shot, Night of the Lepus, Oh God!, Short Cuts, The Jerky Boys and Independence Day, as well as in episode 6 of Batman Film Way,,,Way Out, and is considered to be the inspiration for two fictional television characters: Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Kent Brockman on The Simpsons (the director of "Krusty Gets Busted", Brad Bird, designed the character and modeled him after anchorman Ted Koppel. Dunphy was also a songwriter. One of his songs was called, appropriately, "From the Desert to the Sea" and was recorded by country music star T.G. Sheppard. On May 9, 1984, Dunphy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in the television industry, located at 6669 Hollywood Boulevard. He succumbed to a heart attack on May 20, 2002.

Películas

Pauly Shore Is Dead
Pauly Shore Is Dead
Jerry Dunphy
Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a dead famous comedian appears who tells Pauly to kill himself cause he'll go down as a comedic genius who died before his time. Pauly then fakes his own death, and the media goes crazy.
Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion
Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion
World News Network's Pentagon correspondent Jerry Dunphy
A "mockumentary" of the alien invasion during Independence Day. Barry Nolan hosts the programme, the first 9 minutes of which are a spoof news report of the events of the film. The middle bit is a discussion of the film by cast and crew, and at the end various scientists and politicians discuss what would happen if real aliens arrive on Earth.
Independence Day
Independence Day
Self
En víspera del 4 de julio, unas gigantescas naves espaciales aparecen en el cielo. El estupor inicial se convierte en terror al ver cómo éstas atacan al planeta lanzando rayos destructivos en las mayores ciudades de todo el mundo. Ahora la única esperanza para la salvación de la tierra está en la voluntad de algunos supervivientes, que se unen planeando el último ataque masivo contra los alienígenas, antes de que sea demasiado tarde para la humanidad.
Superdetective en Hollywood III
Superdetective en Hollywood III
Newscaster
El detective de Detroit Axel Foley emplea todo su coraje para perseguir a unos despiadados asesinos con la ayuda de sus viejos compañeros Serge y Billy Rosewood. Las investigaciones lo conducen al popular parque temático de Los Ángeles WonderWorld. Allí, repentinamente, Axel se convierte en la nueva atracción del lugar, bien sea quedándose colgado de una araña gigante para rescatar a un niño o disfrazándose de Okey Dokey, un enorme elefante azul.
Jimmy Hollywood
Jimmy Hollywood
Anchorperson
Jimmy Alto es un actor en paro que llegó a Los Angeles en busca de fama y dinero, pero su situación es casi desesperada. Decepcionado, decide coger su cámara y dedicarse a grabar a los criminales mientras roban, entregando las evidencias a la policía.
Vidas cruzadas
Vidas cruzadas
Himself
Adaptación de varios relatos del escritor norteamericano Raymond Carver (1939-1988). Retrato de la vida cotidiana de un grupo muy heterogéneo de personas que viven en Los Ángeles e intentan afrontar como pueden las dificultades de su vida laboral y personal, gentes que se cruzan indiferentes ignorando los dramas ajenos. Sin embargo, en medio de tanta cotidianeidad, late la presencia del terror.
The Great Quake Hazard Hunt
The Great Quake Hazard Hunt
Himself
Educational video with Chip and Dale showing children how earthquakes happen and how to prepare for them at home and at school.
Impulso
Impulso
TV Anchorman
Lottie Manson trabaja para el departamento de narcóticos de la policía de Hollywood. Por las noches, vestida de paisano, se mezcla con la gente de los clubes nocturnos donde el tráfico de droga y la prostitución de lujo están a la orden del día. El fracaso en una importante misión, organizada por el fiscal del distrito con el que mantiene una relación, la empuja a cruzar el peligroso umbral que separa su trabajo del oscuro mundo de la noche. (FILMAFFINIT)
Difícil de matar
Difícil de matar
Newscaster
Un policía descubre una trama de corrupción a alto nivel político, por lo que le intentan asesinar, quedando en coma durante varios años. Cuando el detective recupera la consciencia, decide vengarse de aquellos que atentaron contra su vida.
Oh, God!
Oh, God!
Self
Cuando Dios se le aparece a un subgerente de una tienda de comestibles como un anciano afable, el Todopoderoso lo selecciona como su mensajero para el mundo moderno.
La larga noche de la furia
La larga noche de la furia
Television Newscaster
Conejos mutantes se hacen más grandes de lo normal. Comienzan a diezmar a la población y dos científicos intentarán pararlos con un veneno.
La máquina del amor
La máquina del amor
Newscaster
Comedia de enredo más sexual que amoroso. Sigue a un presentador televisivo de un programa sobre sexo, promovido con ayuda de la esposa del presidente de la cadena. Cuando éste sufre una coronaria, la cosa empieza a ir de mal en peor en audiencia, mientras que el presentador deja a su novia modelo para liarse con la mujer del jefe.
Como en una pesadilla
Como en una pesadilla
Newscaster
Odisea de un honrado hombre de negocios atrapado por un lío de delincuentes.