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Ernest Earle 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 is the father of film director Paul Thomas Anderson. ==Early life and career== Anderson was born in Boston and grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts, the son of Emily (Malenson) and Ernest C. Anderson, who installed telephone systems. 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 () 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.〔 After WHK switched to a Top 40 format in late 1958, Anderson was let go as his persona didn't fit with the format's newer, high-energy presentation. According to Anderson's lifelong friend, comic actor Tim Conway, Anderson was at an WHK Christmas party "telling this long elaborate joke and just as he's about to deliver the punch line his boss cuts in and says it. So Ernie looks at him and says, 'Why did you do you that?' And his boss says, 'I anticipated it.' So Ernie said, 'Anticipate this' and tells him '(expletive) yourself.' Well, Ernie got fired."'' Anderson switched to television, joining the Cleveland NBC affiliate KYW-TV (now WKYC), where he first collaborated with Conway for some on-air work. In mid-1961, both Anderson and Conway moved to then-CBS affiliate WJW-TV to host a local morning movie show called ''Ernie's Place,'' which also featured live skits and comedy bits reminiscent of ''Bob and Ray''. When the two joined the station, Anderson sold Conway to WJW's management team as a director for the program, even though Conway lacked qualifications and experience for that position. Conway proved unable to do the work, and other staffers, including technician Chuck Schodowski, were called in to assist, before Conway was ultimately dismissed. With Anderson deprived of his comic foil, ''Ernie's Place'' was canceled, but management soon offered him a horror host role for a local incarnation of ''Shock Theater'' that WJW acquired the rights to air late-nights on Fridays. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ernie Anderson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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