Ernie Anderson
| Ernie Anderson | |
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Ernie Anderson c. 1961
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| Born |
Ernest Earle Anderson November 12, 1923 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | February 6, 1997 (aged 73) Los Angeles, California |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
| Occupation | Voice actor, horror host, comic actor, disc jockey |
| Known for |
Ghoulardi The voice of the American Broadcasting Company |
Ernest Earle "Ernie" Anderson (November 12, 1923 – February 6, 1997) was an American television and radio voice actor, horror host, comic actor, and disc jockey. He is best known for his portrayal of "Ghoulardi," the host of a late night horror movie presentation on Cleveland television in the early 1960s, and for his longtime role as the main promotional voice of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network from the late 1970s until the mid-1990s. He was the father of film director Paul Thomas Anderson.
Anderson was born in Boston and grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts, the son of Emily (Malenson) and Ernest C. Anderson. Anderson planned to go to law school, but instead joined the U.S. Navy during World War II to avoid being drafted. In an interview, his son Paul Thomas Anderson spoke of his military service:
"He (Ernie) was in the Navy stationed mainly in Guam. I don't think he did any fighting. I think he was trying - he was fixing airplanes and knew just where the beer was stashed and played the saxophone in bands and stuff like that. You know, every picture I have of him [shows] a beer in his hand. Every single picture from the war he's got - so he was pretty good about probably finding ways to get out of fighting. But again, you know, we never really talked that much about it."
After the war, Anderson attended Suffolk University for two years, then took a job as a disc jockey at WSKI in Montpelier, Vermont. Anderson worked as a disc jockey in Albany, New York and Providence, Rhode Island before moving to Cleveland, Ohio in 1958 to join radio station WHK.
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