Julian Everett Bell looked and sounded just like what he was -- a CBS television broadcaster.
"He had a wonderful speaking voice," said his wife, Miriam Fletcher MacCarthy-Bell. "When he did movies, they always typecast him as the anchor man," as he was in "Primary Colors" and in "The Handmaid's Tale."
Mr. Bell, who took a broadcast job in Virginia to finance his college education and retired from a St. Louis television station, died Friday in a Kilmarnock hospital. He was 81.
A funeral will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church in Kilmarnock. Burial will be private.
The Arlington County native joined the Army when he was 17, but World War II was over by the time he arrived at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
By 1953, he was married and one of four males attending Madison College, a women's school at the time and now James Madison University. He took a full-time job at WSVA TV and Radio in Harrisonburg while earning a bachelor's degree in elementary and secondary education.
He worked in sales, radio and TV production, as a disc jockey and a weatherman.
After graduating in 1958, he decided that he didn't want to teach and moved to Richmond to work for WRVA-TV as a staff announcer and on-camera weatherman. "They sent him out to do promotional things. On Saturday nights he would [cover] teen dances," his wife said.
Mr. Bell moved on to KMOX TV, now KMOV, in St. Louis in 1962, where, among other things, he was a weatherman, an announcer and the host of local shows, including "Confluence," in which he interviewed community religious leaders in live on-air sessions, which earned six Emmy nominations in seven years.
He took early retirement in 1986 to return to Virginia and learn how to sail.
"He got things done he wanted to do," his wife said. "I told people, 'We have such a perfect life.'"
In addition to his wife, survivors include a daughter, Julia Ann Schwalm of Baldwin City, Kan.; a son, Jeffrey Bell of Scottsdale, Ariz.; a sister, June Burke of Barboursville; a brother, Frederick Bell of Naples, Fla.; and a granddaughter.
Former broadcaster Julian Everett Bell dies
By: ELLEN ROBERTSON
Published: February 03, 2010
Julian Everett Bell looked and sounded just like what he was -- a CBS television broadcaster.
"He had a wonderful speaking voice," said his wife, Miriam Fletcher MacCarthy-Bell. "When he did movies, they always typecast him as the anchor man," as he was in "Primary Colors" and in "The Handmaid's Tale."
Mr. Bell, who took a broadcast job in Virginia to finance his college education and retired from a St. Louis television station, died Friday in a Kilmarnock hospital. He was 81.
A funeral will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church in Kilmarnock. Burial will be private.
The Arlington County native joined the Army when he was 17, but World War II was over by the time he arrived at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
By 1953, he was married and one of four males attending Madison College, a women's school at the time and now James Madison University. He took a full-time job at WSVA TV and Radio in Harrisonburg while earning a bachelor's degree in elementary and secondary education.
He worked in sales, radio and TV production, as a disc jockey and a weatherman.
After graduating in 1958, he decided that he didn't want to teach and moved to Richmond to work for WRVA-TV as a staff announcer and on-camera weatherman. "They sent him out to do promotional things. On Saturday nights he would [cover] teen dances," his wife said.
Mr. Bell moved on to KMOX TV, now KMOV, in St. Louis in 1962, where, among other things, he was a weatherman, an announcer and the host of local shows, including "Confluence," in which he interviewed community religious leaders in live on-air sessions, which earned six Emmy nominations in seven years.
He took early retirement in 1986 to return to Virginia and learn how to sail.
"He got things done he wanted to do," his wife said. "I told people, 'We have such a perfect life.'"
In addition to his wife, survivors include a daughter, Julia Ann Schwalm of Baldwin City, Kan.; a son, Jeffrey Bell of Scottsdale, Ariz.; a sister, June Burke of Barboursville; a brother, Frederick Bell of Naples, Fla.; and a granddaughter.
Former broadcaster Julian Everett Bell dies
By: ELLEN ROBERTSON
Published: February 03, 2010
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