Jerry Dunphy served as a color commentator for Green Bay Packers telecasts on CBS in 1956.
12 Facts About Jerry Dunphy
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Jerry Dunphy was still popular when fired in 1975, yet KNXT sought to adopt a faster-paced news format similar to KABC-TV's Eyewitness News.
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Jerry Dunphy left KABC-TV in July 1989 and joined the upstart KCAL-TV that July as one of the pioneering anchors of the three-hour primetime news format, Prime 9 News.
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Jerry Dunphy returned to KCBS-TV in February 1995 as a late afternoon anchor for Channel 2 Action News.
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However, due to CBS' merger with Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Jerry Dunphy was dismissed from KCBS-TV in March 1996.
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Jerry Dunphy returned to KCAL-TV in November 1997, where he anchored what is K-CAL 9 News until his death in May 2002.
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Jerry Dunphy was one of the first newscasters to interview President Richard Nixon after his resignation in 1974.
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Jerry Dunphy was attacked and shot in the neck by 4 would-be robbers in 1983 but made a full recovery.
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On May 9,1984, Jerry Dunphy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in the television industry, located at 6669 Hollywood Boulevard.
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On this night, former Los Angeles Lakers broadcaster Chick Hearn, while doing play-by-play for a Lakers playoff game on KCAL, announced that Jerry Dunphy had suffered a heart attack.
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Jerry Dunphy touched the lives of generations of Angelenos for more than 40 years; a beacon of truth and trust, and for all to turn to in good times and in bad.
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Jerry Dunphy is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles.