1. Alexander M Dreier was an American news reporter and commentator who worked with NBC Radio during the 1940s, and later with the ABC Information Radio network in the 1960s and early 1970s.
11 Facts About Alex Dreier
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Alex Dreier was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, attended Stanford University, and graduated in 1939.
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Alex Dreier then went into journalism, and was covering Berlin for United Press when he joined NBC in 1941.
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Alex Dreier's commentary aired on NBC on Saturdays from 1942 to 1945 and weekdays from 1951 to 1956.
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Alex Dreier was replaced as WMAQ anchor by Floyd Kalber in 1962; he then moved to ABC owned-and-operated WBKB-TV.
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From 1959 to 1964, Alex Dreier co-hosted the television program Championship Bridge with Charles Goren.
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Alex Dreier moved to California in 1967, where he worked in Los Angeles for KTTV and began a career as an actor in many films such as The Boston Strangler, Chandler, The Carey Treatment, The Loners, Lady Cocoa and The Astral Factor, and TV shows, including Mannix, Kojak, Land of the Giants, Hart to Hart and Love, American Style between 1968 and 1979.
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Alex Dreier served as chairman of the board for the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences and as a board member of the Eisenhower Medical Center.
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Alex Dreier served on the boards of trustees of institutions including Shimer College and the Eisenhower Medical Center.
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Alex Dreier died on March 11,2000, in Rancho Mirage, California.
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Alex Dreier is buried in Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.