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Ghoulardi was a fictional character created and portrayed by voice announcer, actor and disc jockey Ernie Anderson as the horror host of Shock Theater at WJW -TV, Channel 8 (a.k.a. "TV-8") the CBS Affiliate station in Cleveland, Ohio, from January 13, 1963, through December 16, 1966. [1] Shock Theater featured grade-"B" science fiction films ...
Jan 12, 2013 · A devious ghoul who rose up in the middle of the night -- tipsy, no less -- to cast a spell over the city. Late-night horror host Ghouldardi, real name Ernie Anderson, hit the airwaves 50 years ...
Ernie Anderson. Ernest Earle Anderson (November 12, 1923 – February 6, 1997) was an American radio and television personality, horror host, and announcer. Known for his portrayal of "Ghoulardi", the host of late night horror films on WJW Channel 8 on Cleveland television from 1963 to 1966, [1] he worked as an announcer for the ABC television ...
Oct 31, 2014 · The interesting doc here—based on the 1997 book, Ghoulardi: Inside Cleveland’s Wildest TV Ride, brought out by Gray & Company, an enterprising Cleveland publisher doing books of local interest—shows how Hollywood studios’ rediscovery and repackaging of their old horror classics for local TV stations in the late 1950s and early ’60s prompted many local TV stations to program horror ...
Dec 21, 2013 · Ghoulardi hosted horror movies on Friday nights at 11:30. His real name was Ernie Anderson and he was a booth announcer for WJW TV in Cleveland. For Ghoulardi's Shock Theater, he copped a ...
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Jan 12, 2016 · Anderson, of course, was the mastermind behind Ghoulardi. For three wild and woolly years in the 1960s, the late-night TV host notched unprecedented ratings, spawned a Ghoulardi-mania and warped ...
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Jun 16, 2019 · An associate of a young Tim Conway on local Cleveland TV, Anderson was an instant hit as the irreverent ethnic hipster Ghoulardi (the name was decided by a write-in contest, although the winner was actually “Ghoulardini”, which they shortened) and was immensely popular. Clevelanders by the thousands came out to see him in parades and at ...
