Best known for his portrayal of "Ghoulardi," the host of a late night horror films on WJW Channel 8 on Cleveland television from 1963 to 1966, he also worked as an announcer for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network from the late 1970s until the mid-1990s.\n', '

He was the father of filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.\n', '

Anderson was born in Boston and grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts, the son of Emily (Malenson) and Ernest C. Anderson. Anderson planned to go to law school, but instead joined the U.S. Navy during World War II to avoid being drafted. In an interview, his son Paul Thomas Anderson spoke of his military service:\n', '

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