Radio, TV Actor Charlie Dugdale Dies

Charlie Dugdale, veteran radio announcer and television actor, died Saturday at St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank of leukemia at age 61.

Dugdale at his death was a staff announcer at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, where he was heard on such shows as “Scholar Quiz,” “Orson Bean and Other People” and “So You Think You Know L.A.?”

He moved to KCBS in 1965 from his hometown of Lincoln, Neb., where he was “Cactus Pete,” a comic Western character on radio, and from San Francisco, where he had “The Charlie Dugdale Show” on television and was a disc jockey and newscaster on radio. He also was involved in more than 70 episodes of the Salvation Army’s “Heartbeat Theater” radio drama series.

Dugdale worked as a TV series actor, appearing regularly on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “McHale’s Navy,” “The Fugitive,” “Bewitched” and “The Odd Couple.”

A funeral Mass will be at 8 p.m. today at St. Francis deSales Church in Sherman Oaks, with a memorial service at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church, Burbank.

Dugdale is survived by his wife, Mickey, and mother, Elizabeth.