Dick Vitale Biography (1939-)

Full name, Richard Vitale; born June 7 (one source says June 9), 1939, in East Rutherford (other sources cite Garfield or Passaic), NJ; son of John (a clothing press operator and security guard) and Mae (a seamstress) Vitale; married Lorraine, 1971; children: Terri, Sherri. Addresses: Office: ESPN Sports, ESPN Plaza, Bristol, CT 06010.; Agent: Roy Judelson, IMG, 22 East 71stSt., New York, NY 10021-4911.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sports commentator, writer
Birth Details: June 7, 1939; New Jersey, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Television Appearances
Series
Appeared in the regular segment "Dick Vitale's Fast Break," SportsCenter, ESPN.
Miniseries
Himself, ESPN 25: Who's #1?, ESPN, 2004
Movies
(Uncredited) Himself, A Season on the Brink, ESPN, 2002
Specials
The Game of Life, ESPN, 1991
Game Plan for Life, ESPN, 1994
Awards Presentations
Commentator, Mercedes-Benz Presents the Basketball Writers' Player ofthe Year Awards, ABC, 1990
Presenter, The America's Choice Awards, TBS, 1990
The 1997 ESPY Awards, ESPN, 1997
Episodic
Dan Vincente, "The Getaway," The Cosby Show, CBS, 1992
Reader of list "Top 10 Signs Dick Vitale Is Nuts!," The Late Show withDavid Letterman (also known as The Late Show), CBS, 1996
Arli$$, HBO, 1996
Real Sports, HBO, 1999
Himself, ESPN Sports Century, ESPN, 2002
Himself, Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC, 2004

Himself, "Best of Cheap Seats," Cheap Seats, ESPN Classic, 2005
Himself, Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith, ESPN2, 2005
Appeared in episodes of other series, including ESPN Hollywood, ESPN2.
Film Appearances
Baseball announcer, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!(also known as The Naked Gun), Paramount, 1988
Himself (television sports commentator), Hoop Dreams, Columbia, 1993
Himself, Blue Chips, Paramount, 1994
Hal Gibson, Jury Duty, Sony Pictures Releasing, 1995
Himself, The Sixth Man (also known as The 6th Man), Buena Vista, 1997
Himself, He Got Game, Buena Vista, 1998
Himself, Love & Basketball, New Line Cinema, 2000
Himself, Complete Guide to Guys (also known as Dave Barry's "Complete Guide to Guys"), Labrador Pictures, 2005
Radio Appearances
Commentator for a radio show hosted by J. P. McCarthy, WJR (Detroit, MI);appeared in a regular segment on Mike & Mike in the Morning, ESPNRadio.
RECORDINGS
Videos
Host, Time Out Baby! Dick Vitale's College Hoop Superstars, ESPN Home Video, 1991
Host, Dick Vitale's "Dreamtime, Baby" (also known as Dreamtime,Baby!), Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 1996
WRITINGS
Teleplays with Others
Specials
The Game of Life, ESPN, 1991
Game Plan for Life, ESPN, 1994
Nonfiction
(With Curry Kirkpatrick) Vitale: Just Your Average, Bald, One-Eyed Basketball Wacko Who Beat the Ziggy and Became a PTP'er (also known as Vitale), Simon & Schuster, 1988
(With Dick Weiss) Time Out, Baby!, Putnam, 1991
(With Mike Douchant) Tourney Time--It's Awesome Baby, Masters Press, 1993
(With Charlie Parker and Jim Angresano) Dickie V's Top 40 All-Everything Team, Masters Press, 1995
(With Weiss) Holding Court: Reflections on the Game I Love, Masters Press, 1995
(With Weiss) Campus Chaos: Why the Game I Love Is Breaking My Heart, TimeOut Publishing, 1999
(With Weiss) Living a Dream: Reflections of 25 Years Sitting in the Best Seat in the House, Sports Publishing, 2003
Sports columnist for Basketball Times and Eastern Basketball, both beginning 1979; author of "Final Four," a column in USA Today;also a contributor to ESPN The Magazine. Affiliated with the magazineDick Vitale's Basketball. Also affiliated with computer games.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

Playboy, March, 1996, pp. 128-32
Sport, April, 1998, pp. 78-84
Sporting News, November 17, 2003, p. 14
Sports Illustrated, November 19, 1986, p. 114; November 11, 1991;February 10, 1992; June 14, 1993; March 7, 1994, p. 72; December 28, 1998, p.87; March 4, 2002, p. 20; February 16, 2004, p. 13

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