Regis Cordic

Career overview

Regis John Cordic was an American radio personality, actor, and voice actor born in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 15, 1926. He attended Central Catholic High School and began his radio career as a staff announcer and substitute sportscaster at WWSW-AM. When morning host Davey Tyson left the station in 1948, Cordic was selected as one of the staffers given the opportunity to replace him. Initially working as a straightforward announcer, Cordic gradually introduced comedy to his program by reading fictional sports scores alongside real ones and eventually adding a repertory company of supporting comic characters. The morning show was renamed Cordic and Company and ultimately became the most popular program in Pittsburgh.

Over the course of his career, Cordic amassed sixty-seven known acting credits, and he was also known and credited as Rege Cordic. His acting work included a role in the 1977 production titled The Man with the Power, featuring a cast that included Tim O'Connor, Vic Morrow, Persis Khambatta, Bob Neill, Austin Stoker, John de Lancie, Jason Wingreen, Roger Perry, Bill Fletcher, René Assa, and Noel De Souza. Cordic passed away on April 16, 1999, at the age of seventy-two in Los Angeles, California.