Gerald Raymond Dunphy (June 9, 1921 – May 20, 2002) was an American television news anchor in the Los Angeles/Southern California media market. He was best known for his intro "From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California, a good evening." Biography Career After serving as a pilot in World War II, where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals, Dunphy began his broadcast television career in 1953. He was the news director/anchor at then-CBS owned-and-operated (O&O) WXIX (now CW affiliated WVTV) in Milwaukee. Dunphy also was a sports reporter at another CBS O&O, WBBM-TV, in Chicago. Dunphy also served as a color commentator for Green Bay Packers telecasts on CBS in 1956. In 1960, Dunphy took over the anchor chair at the Los Angeles CBS O&O station KNXT (now KCBS-TV), where he anchored Los Angeles' most popular newscast, later titled The Big News, a program that often attracted a quarter of Los Angeles television owners, ratings unheard of in the market. He was still popular when fired in 1975, yet KNXT sought to adopt a faster-paced news format (known as Channel 2 News around the time of Dunphy's firing) similar to KABC-TV's Eyewitness News. It was then that Dunphy joined KABC-TV, bringing it to the top of the ratings, making it Southern California's news leader. After Dunphy's unceremonious firing, Channel 2 wouldn't recover in the ratings until the mid-2000s. Dunphy left KABC-TV in July 1989 and joined the upstart KCAL-TV that July (when it was still KHJ-TV) as one of the pioneering anchors of the three-hour primetime news format, Prime 9 News. He returned to KCBS-TV in February 1995 as a late afternoon anchor for Channel 2 Action News. However, due to CBS' merger with Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Dunphy was dismissed from KCBS-TV in March 1996. He returned to KCAL-TV in November 1997, where he anchored what is now K-CAL 9 News until his death in May 2002. Dunphy was one of the first newscasters to interview President Richard Nixon after his resignation in 1974. He would later sit down with Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford. Dunphy also performed regular cameos in L.A.-based films including Warning Shot (1967), Night of the Lepus (1972), Oh God! (1977), Short Cuts (1993), The Jerky Boys (1995) and Independence Day (1996), as well as in episode 6 of Batman (1966), and is considered to