Acting

Regis Cordic

Born 1926-05-15 · Hazelwood, Pennsylvania, USA

Cordic was born in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh and attended Central Catholic High School. He started in radio as a staff announcer and substitute sportscaster at WWSW-AM.[1] When morning host Davey Tyson left the station in 1948, Cordic was one of a number of staffers given the opportunity to replace him. At first a straightforward announcer, Cordic began introducing comedy to his program—first in subtle ways, such as reading a sports score for "East Overshoe University" along with the real scores, and later by adding a repertory company of supporting comic characters. The morning show, renamed Cordic & Company, became the most popular in Pittsburgh. In 1954, Cordic & Company moved to KDKA (AM) on Labor Day, one of the first times that an American radio station had hired a major personality directly from a local competitor. Popular Bette Smiley had decided to retire from her full-time KDKA wake-up show Radio Gift Shoppe of the Air and move to a Sunday-only condensed version on WCAE in August 1954 in order to raise her young son Robbie. Cordic's immediate predecessor in the morning slot was the Ed and Rainbow show, featuring Ed Schaughency with Elmer Waltman cast in the role of Rainbow, the janitor. Waltman was dropped, and Schaughency was moved to the afternoon with a show called Schaughency's Record Cabinet. Schaughency lasted less than two years in that role before he was replaced by Art Pallan, who also came over from WWSW. Schaughency took on a new role as a news reader and moved back to mornings, delivering the newscasts during Cordic & Company. The show's ratings continued to grow until, at some points, it had an 85 share—meaning that 85% of all radios in Pittsburgh were tuned to Cordic & Company while it was on. By the end of his tenure in Pittsburgh, Cordic was reportedly earning $100,000 a year, a huge sum for a radio host at the time.

Acting credits

Sleeper poster
6.9

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.

Sleeper

1973

Obsession poster
6.7

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.

Obsession

1976

Panic in Echo Park poster
5.4

A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.

Panic in Echo Park

1977

The Meanest Men in the West poster
4.2

Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them just how mean the other can be. "The Meanest Men in the West" is actually an amalgam of two episodes of the hit 1960's TV series, "The Virginian." In one installment, a wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped by a nasty gunslinger. But the crime is only just a means for the ruffian to draw the tough title character into a blood- thirsty revenge scheme. In the second, a drifter burglarizes the Shiloh ranch. Then an unhinged girl relies on the man to aid in her flight from home.

The Meanest Men in the West

1978

Americathon poster
3.6

In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.

Americathon

1979

The Golden Gate Murders poster
8.4

An elderly, venerable priest goes over the side of the Golden Gate Bridge and everyone except his nurse, Sister Benecia, believes that it was suicide. Sister Benecia finally manages to convince the police department to assign a detective, the cynical, irascible Paul Silver, to investigate. The "Mad Nun" and the "Mad Cop" become a formidable investigative team -- and much, much more.

The Golden Gate Murders

1979

Ritual of Evil poster
6.0

A psychiatrist investigates the death of one of his patients, a young heiress.

Ritual of Evil

1970

Intimate Strangers poster
5.0

The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.

Intimate Strangers

1977

John Hus poster
9.0

A faithful recounting of the ministry, trial and martyrdom of the fifteenth century Bohemian priest John Hus, who built on the reforms of John Wycliffe, taught the Bible in the vernacular and who influenced Martin Luther a century later.

John Hus

1977

The Priest Killer poster
NR

A police chief, confined to a wheelchair, and a former cop, who is now a priest, team up to discover who has been committing a series of murders of local priests. This TV movie was a backdoor pilot for the crime series SARGE and aired as a special-event spinoff of IRONSIDE.

The Priest Killer

1971

Newman's Law poster
6.6

LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty is put to the test when he and his partner discover an international drug ring involving some of the department's highest ranking officers.

Newman's Law

1974

Detroit 9000 poster
5.5

After a fundraiser for a Black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one Black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.

Detroit 9000

1973

The Mouse and His Child poster
6.1

A mouse and his child, the two parts of a single small wind-up toy, go on a quest to become "self-winding".

The Mouse and His Child

1977

Standing Tall poster
6.0

Set in Montana in the year 1934, a half-breed rancher and his wife are harassed by a ruthless land robber, who forces them to stand tall and defend their land, life and dignity.

Standing Tall

1978

Indict and Convict poster
5.0

A prosecutor must try his friend, a deputy district attorney, who has been charged with murdering his wife and her lover.

Indict and Convict

1974

The Wild Party poster
4.9

An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.

The Wild Party

1975

Death Takes a Holiday poster
4.9

Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

Death Takes a Holiday

1971

Puff, the Magic Dragon poster
7.0

Jackie is a boy who is so trapped by his fears and doubts that he could not communicate with anyone. Then, a magic dragon named Puff comes to help Jackie by taking his soul force on a wonderous voyage to his island of Honah Lee. Along the way, they have adventures that nurture Jackie's imagination and courage in unorthodox ways.

Puff, the Magic Dragon

1978

Woman of the Year poster
7.0

The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.

Woman of the Year

1976

Target Risk poster
7.0

A professional courier's girlfriend is abducted, and the kidnappers threaten to kill her unless the courier helps them fake a diamond robbery.

Target Risk

1975

The Man with the Power poster
6.8

A man whose father was an alien from another planet inherits his father's supernatural powers. He is assigned to guard a beautiful Indian princess who is on a state visit to America.

The Man with the Power

1977

No artwork available
5.9

A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to find the killer before he fulfills his part of the bargain.

The Face of Fear

1971

The Death Squad poster
6.9

When petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a group of his fellow officers who think the criminals were treated too leniently by the courts.

The Death Squad

1974

No artwork available
7.3

Sand devises a scheme to murder his former business partner and maintains his innocence throughout the trial, as he is prosecuted by District Attorney Travis Logan.

Travis Logan, D.A.

1971