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Roger Grimsby |
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| Born | September 23, 1928 |
| Died | June 25, 1995 New York, New York |
Roger Grimsby (September 23, 1928 – June 23, 1995) was an American news anchor and actor.
A graduate of St. Olaf College in Minnesota, Grimsby started his anchoring career on KGO-TV in San Francisco in the early 1960s. He then moved to New York City's WABC-TV in 1968, where he served as co-anchor on Eyewitness News alongside Tom Dunn from 1968 through 1970, and Bill Beutel from 1970 on. Grimsby was fired from WABC-TV on April 16, 1986 and went to WNBC-TV's Live at Five as a commentator from 1987 to 1989. He then worked at KUSI in San Diego.
Grimsby was known for beginning his broadcasts with the phrase "Good evening, I'm Roger Grimsby; hear now the news," and ending them with the phrase "Hoping your news is good news, I'm Roger Grimsby." Chevy Chase later spoofed the opening line on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update segment with his catchphrase, "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase and you're not."
Grimsby could be rather funny, himself. His humor was off-the-cuff, often with the typical journalist's sarcastic tone. One famous remark, widely circulated on an industry outtake reel, came after a studio wide-shot caught an unknowing on-set reporter quickly lifting her middle finger, presumably to a member of the stage crew, as her story was being introduced by one of the anchors. At the end of the story anchorman Grimsby, with a straight face, looking into the camera quipped, "...or as Mara Wolynski would say -- 'We are number one.'"
He often appeared in films, usually playing himself as an anchorman, and had roles in Bananas, The Exterminator, Ghostbusters, Turk 182, and Nothing but Trouble.
Grimsby died of lung cancer in New York at the age of 66.
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