Jerry Dunphy

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

死亡 : 2002-05-20

略歴

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.

参加作品

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.
インデペンデンス・デイ
インデペンデンス・デイ
Self
7月2日。何の前触れも無く世界中の上空に姿を現した直径24キロに及ぶ巨大UFO。混乱の中、元戦闘機のパイロットであるアメリカ大統領ホイットモア率いるアメリカ・サイドは、交流を求めるためUFOとの交信を試みる。が、UFOからの容赦ない攻撃が開始され…
ビバリーヒルズ・コップ3
ビバリーヒルズ・コップ3
Newscaster
デトロイト市警のアクセル刑事は、盗難車の部品を売りさばく組織のアジトを急襲。だが一味のボス、デウォルドに上司を射殺されてしまう。アクセルは現場に残された手掛かりをもとに単身ビバリーヒルズへ。現地市警の刑事で、かつてともに2つの大事件を解決したローズウッドの応援を得られたアクセルだが、デウォルドが保安課長として働く巨大テーマパーク(ワンダーワールド)で偽造紙幣が製造されていることを突き止める。
Jimmy Hollywood
Jimmy Hollywood
Anchorperson
Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has suffered a head wound and has problems with short-term memory. Jimmy's vigilante alter ego soon becomes a media wonder--but Jimmy remains a total unknown and his long-suffering girl friend Lorraine is getting fed up with the whole situation.
ショート・カッツ
ショート・カッツ
Himself
巨匠ロバート・アルトマンによる傑作人間群像劇。ロス郊外の住宅地を舞台に、10組22人の男女の喜怒哀楽に満ちた日常が、複雑に絡み合いながら展開していく。ティム・ロビンス、ジュリアン・ムーアら豪華スターが多数出演。
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.
Impulse
Impulse
TV Anchorman
Regularly working alone undercover with a vice squad boss she dislikes as much as he dislikes her, Lottie Mason is living pretty much on the edge. An assignment helping out the Assistant D.A. may be the start of a serious relationship but then, tired and disillusioned after a job one night, she finds herself accepting a proposition in a bar that leads rapidly into a web of murder and deceit.
ハード・トゥ・キル
ハード・トゥ・キル
Newscaster
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death
Oh, God!
Oh, God!
Self
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Night of the Lepus
Night of the Lepus
Television Newscaster
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!
The Love Machine
The Love Machine
Newscaster
An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion.
Kitten with a Whip
Kitten with a Whip
Newscaster
Straitlaced senatorial hopeful David Stratton has no idea what he's in for when he arrives home from a trip to find sexy teen Jody curled up asleep in his daughter's bed. Soon, delinquent Jody is holding David -- and his plush suburban home -- hostage while she hides out from the cops and throws wild parties with her beatnik pals. David, terrified of scandal, agrees to drive Jody and her friends to Mexico, a decision he regrets when the ride gets out of control.