Don Dunphy, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDon Dunphy
American sports announcer
Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1908
Date of Death: 22-Jul-1998
Profession: presenter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Don Dunphy
- Don Dunphy (July 5, 1908 – July 22, 1998) was an American television and radio sports announcer specializing in boxing broadcasts.
- Dunphy was noted for his fast-paced delivery and enthusiasm for the sport.
- It is estimated that he did "blow-by-blow" action for over 2,000 fights.
- The Friday Night Fights were broadcast every Friday evening from (radio and television (1939–1981) 9 P.M.
- to 10:45 P.M on ABC. In 1984, Dunphy was part of the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame's inaugural class which included sportscasting legends Red Barber, Ted Husing, Graham McNamee and Bill Stern.
- He was also a member of the organization's Board of Directors.
- He was elected in 1986 to the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame. Dunphy was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1988 and had a memorable cameo appearance in the 1971 Woody Allen movie Bananas.
- He appears as the commentator in the 1977 biopic of Muhammad Ali, "The Greatest".
- He also called all of the fights in the 1980 United Artists film Raging Bull, which was directed by Martin Scorsese.
- In 1982, he won the Sam Taub Award for Excellence in Broadcasting Journalism in boxing.
- He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Dunphy was a star track athlete and went on to graduate from Manhattan College in 1930.
- In 1984, he was inducted into the Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame.His son, Don Dunphy Jr., was an executive producer of Eyewitness News on WABC-TV in New York City in its early years, and later became vice president of news services at ABC.
- His other son, Bob Dunphy, has been a director of Showtime Championship Boxing since 1989.
- In 2015 he directed the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, the highest-grossing pay-per-view event in history. He is buried in the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury, New York.
Read more at Wikipedia