Sweet Dick Whittington

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name = "Sweet" Dick Whittington


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occupation = Actor and Disc Jockey
yearsactive = 1950s—1990s
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Sweet Dick Whittington (b. 1934) is a long time disc jockey in Los Angeles [http://www.laradio.com/wherew.htm LARadio People] ] , who also appeared as an actor in movies and television. [http://imdb.com/name/nm0926534/ IMDB] ]

Prior to his arrival in Southern California, Whittington was a popular radio personality in the San Francisco Bay Area at Oakland's KROW (960 AM), where he hosted the "Night Watchman" overnight program and, later, a weekday afternoon show, from 1955 to 1958. In the fall of 1958, he moved to KSFO (560 AM) in San Francisco as host of the 9 p.m. to midnight program. He begain his stint in Los Angeles at KABC 790 AM doing a one hour talk show weekday and 3 hour Sunday talk show from 1965-1969. In 1969 he moved to KGIL.

His greatest fame in the Los Angeles market was in morning drive at KGIL AM 1260 in the "Sin Fernando Valley." For a brief time he left KGIL to do PM drive at KFI AM 640. He also was briefly heard in the late 1980's in KIEV (870 AM) and for a few months in 1989 back at KABC AM. (see list below) According to the entry in www.laradio.com he has "retired" and is writing a novel.

Many people regarding him as ahead of his time. Rather than the "happy morning to you" type of radio personality, he often announced on the air about things that bothered him and foreshadowed the Howard Stern era of speaking your mind. At stations where he was still spinning records, he would many times interrupt a song midway through saying, "I like it up to that point, then I get bored."

One of Whittington's notable film roles was as the disc jockey in the TV movie "Duel," Steven Spielberg's directorial debut. He can also be seen briefly as a ring announcer in Martin Scorcese's "Raging Bull."

He now lives in the San Luis Obispo area and is the image voice for radio station KKJL-AM (adult standards).

Radio Credits

*KROW (Oakland), 1955-1958
*KSFO (San Francisco), 1958-1959
*KNOB, 1960-62
*KLAC, 1960-63
*KGIL, 1965-75 and 1978-85
*KABC, 1966-68
*KFI, 1975-77
*KIEV (870 AM), 1982 and 1988
*KHJdn, 1983
*KABC, 1989-90
*KMPC 1990-91
*KNJO, 1994-95
*KKJL, 1999-? image voice

TV/FilmCredits

*The Incredible Hulk (TV series)
*Raging Bull
*The Jeffersons
*Fantasy Island
*The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

External links

*imdb name|id=0926534|name=Sweet Dick Whittington
* [http://www.laradio.com/wherew.htm LARadio: Where are they now?]
* [http://www.geocities.com/oddlystupid/sweetdick.html Totaly Unofficial Sweet Dick Whittington Fan Site]

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