Dick Spangler

Biography

Actor (6 titles) 1989 Lobster Man from Mars TV Announcer 1988 The Seventh Sign Newscaster 1985 Prime Risk News Anchorman 1977 Looking for Mr. Goodbar TV Announcer (as Richard Spangler) 1972 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Announcer 1970 Arnie (TV series) 2nd Reporter – Trouble in the Air (1970) … 2nd Reporter Career: President of Spangler’s World Communications Memorable moment: Trying to attach a promotional radio banner to the dorsal fin of a 16-foot tiger shark in a tank with 15 other sharks Awards: Five Golden Mikes and the Grand Award for Best Reporting from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club Unique record: Bowling for more than 51 hours at the Waiʻalae Bowl with an average score of 155 Hobbies: Shodokan karate and kung fu Family: Wife Joan, sons Paul and Shane In 1954 freshman Dick Spangler and friend Don Berrigan started a KHON radio program dubbed The Dick and Don Show on the Bonny Banks of the Ala Wai Canal. He later worked at KORL, KGMB-TV and KGU in Hawaiʻi and as a radio/TV anchor in California. His Spangler’s World radio interview show was syndicated across the U.S. for 25 years. Spangler is now a full-time writer whose books include Kung Fu: History, Philosophy and Technique and Five Fingers of Success. His most recent work, West Point to Pearl Harbor: A Little Boy Remembers the Japanese Attack and Other Survivor Stories from America’s Greatest Military Disaster, explores the lasting effect the attack had on his family and others. Spangler was 5 at the time, living at Fort Kamehameha where his father was a captain. He remembers firing his toy pistol at Japanese bombers as they flew overhead. The author pledged a portion of the royalties from his book to West Point’s Long Gray Line Endowment and the Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund.