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News People (anchors and reporters) on movies and tv

Larry Brinton of WTVF in Nashville played himself in the movie "Marie." Brenda Blackmon of WWOR-TV in New York was seen briefly in "The Paper." Larry Mendte of KYW-TV in Philadelphia had a cameo in "Primary Colors."
 
In the 2001 movie "Cats and Dogs," there was an anchor on the "Canine News Network" named Wolf Blitzer, but the voice was done by someone else.
 
Some audio of the Today Show was used in "I Am Legend" During a few scenes when Wil Smith's character is at his home.
 
How about Terry Carter, who was an actor, then a TV news reporter, and then an actor once again?

One of his first TV roles was as "Pvt. Sugarman" on The Phil Silvers Show. In 1965 came to WBZ-TV in Boston as a newscaster and later had the roles of "Sgt. Joe Broadhurst" on the McCloud series and "Colonel Tigh" on Battlestar Galactica among others.
 
Veteran NYC news anchor Roger Grimsby appeared in a number of movies including Ghostbusters (along with Larry King and Joe Franklin), Turk 182, and Nothing But Trouble.
 
dmargalotti said:
Veteran NYC news anchor Roger Grimsby appeared in a number of movies including Ghostbusters (along with Larry King and Joe Franklin), Turk 182, and Nothing But Trouble.
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...and BANANAS, which also contained a couple of appearances by Howard Cosell. Woody Allen also had Howard pop up in SLEEPER and BROADWAY DANNY ROSE...
 
Wayne Shattuck of WFTS TV was in an episode of Second Noah. He was reporting on Hurricane Betsy in the movie. I just watched the clip!

Glenn Rinker appeared in Jack Nicholson's The Shining. He was at WPLG TV Miami at the time.

Other Atlanta anchors who have appeared on Sharkey's Machine include: Monica Kaufman, and maybe John Pruitt.
 
Retired anchor Don Colson from WABI-TV 5, Bangor, Maine was featured as a news reporter in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas". At the time he was an anchor at a station in Texas, the city escapes me though. San Antonio?
 
Don Colson did work in San Antonio, both at
KSAT/12 and KMOL (now WOAI again)/4 (nobody
was going to dislodge Chris Marrou on KENS/5).

This may be stretching the definition of anchor/
reporter in the context of 1957, but watch for
Mike Wallace and Walter Winchell in brief appearances
in Andy Griffith's "A Face In The Crowd." That goes
especially for Wallace, who wan't yet a bona-fide
newsperson.
 
bpatrick said:
This may be stretching the definition of anchor/
reporter in the context of 1957, but watch for
Mike Wallace and Walter Winchell in brief appearances
in Andy Griffith's "A Face In The Crowd." That goes
especially for Wallace, who wan't yet a bona-fide
newsperson.
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...but Wallace indeed became anchor of CBS' "Morning News" by the week in 1963 when President Kennedy was assassinated, so there's really no stretching the point involved here. And Winchell's Sunday night simulcast was indeed a newscast, so the same with him. Same would also go for Lowell Thomas' announcing of the Fox Movietone newsreel recreations in PATTON and Ed Herlihy's newsreel recreation in MALCOLM X when considering their histories...
 
The late Bruce Dortin(WABE-FM, Atlanta), while serving in the U.S. Air Force, was a newscaster on AFN-TV, in West Berlin Germany. During that stint, he had a brief speaking part playing a U.S. Army prison guard in the movie, "Inside Out"(aka: "Hitler's Gold"), which starred Telly Savalas and Robert Culp.
 
in Pittsburgh, PA (a.k.a. Hollywood on the Monongahela) there are many examples....

- Kevin Evans from WPTT 22 in Flashdance
- Bill Cardille (actually a weatherman for WIIC 11) in Night of the Living Dead
- Ken Rice and Sally Wiggin, then both of WTAE-4 (Ken Rice now is with KDKA 2)
in Striking Distance

I can probably come up with some others
 
jwgreek8606 said:
Glenn Rinker appeared in Jack Nicholson's The Shining. He was at WPLG TV Miami at the time.
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Denver's then KBTV channel 9 appeared in the Shining as well. The scene where Shelley Duvall was in the kitchen (?) watching "9 News". The anchors as I recall were a man and a woman. Over the years I heard it was KBTV's ( KUSA ) Ward Lucas and Paula Woodward that appeared in the movie but IMDB says nothing about them being in the Shining ( though Glenn Rinker is mentioned there ). If not Lucas & Woodward who were those Denver anchors that appeared in the movie?
 
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