Regis Cordic
Acting
Born 1926-05-15
Died 1999-04-16
Hazelwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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Cordic was born in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh and attended Central Catholic High School. He started in radio as a staff announcer and substitute sportscaster at WWSW-AM.[1] When morning host Davey Tyson left the station in 1948, Cordic was one of a number of staffers given the opportunity to replace him. At first a straightforward announcer, Cordic began introducing comedy to his program—first in subtle ways, such as reading a sports score for "East Overshoe University" along with the real scores, and later by adding a repertory company of supporting comic characters. The morning show, renamed Cordic & Company, became the most popular in Pittsburgh.
In 1954, Cordic & Company moved to KDKA (AM) on Labor Day, one of the first times that an American radio station had hired a major personality directly from a local competitor. Popular Bette Smiley had decided to retire from her full-time KDKA wake-up show Radio Gift Shoppe of the Air and move to a Sunday-only condensed version on WCAE in August 1954 in order to raise her young son Robbie. Cordic's immediate predecessor in the morning slot was the Ed and Rainbow show, featuring Ed Schaughency with Elmer Waltman cast in the role of Rainbow, the janitor. Waltman was dropped, and Schaughency was moved to the afternoon with a show called Schaughency's Record Cabinet. Schaughency lasted less than two years in that role before he was replaced by Art Pallan, who also came over from WWSW. Schaughency took on a new role as a news reader and moved back to mornings, delivering the newscasts during Cordic & Company. The show's ratings continued to grow until, at some points, it had an 85 share—meaning that 85% of all radios in Pittsburgh were tuned to Cordic & Company while it was on. By the end of his tenure in Pittsburgh, Cordic was reportedly earning $100,000 a year, a huge sum for a radio host at the time.
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Acting
44 credits
Columbo
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Get Smart
The Rockford Files
The Six Million Dollar Man
Quincy, M.E.
The Transformers
Gunsmoke
Night Gallery
The F.B.I.
The Monkees
The Name of the Game
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Wonder Woman
The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour
Space Ghost and Dino Boy
Nichols
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
The Outsider
Logan's Run
Monty Nash
Obsession
Americathon
John Hus
The Critical List
Standing Tall
The Mouse and His Child
The Priest Killer
The Wild Party
Newman's Law
Detroit 9000
The Golden Gate Murders
The Death Squad
Death Takes a Holiday
Panic in Echo Park
Intimate Strangers
The Face of Fear
Kung Fu
Gulliver's Travels
Puff, the Magic Dragon
Ritual of Evil
Target Risk
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Ironside
Mannix
The Waltons
Emergency!
The Incredible Hulk
Cannon
Medical Center
The Bionic Woman
McCloud
The Streets of San Francisco
Toma
The Manhunter
The Sixth Sense
The All-New Super Friends Hour
The Meanest Men in the West
Famous Classic Tales
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