Biography

Stan Chambers was born on August 11, 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991), Zarkorr! The Invader (1996) and War of the Colossal Beast (1958). He was married to Gege Elder and Beverly Jane McLoughlin. He died on February 13, 2015 in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Has been at KTLA-TV (Los Angeles) since 1947. His grandson, James, was hired as a reporter at KTLA in 2003.

Chambers was a 24-year-old Navy veteran attending USC on the GI Bill when he joined KTLA as a production assistant in December 1947, less than a year after Channel 5 went on the air as the first commercially licensed TV station in the western United States.

Chambers, who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a building named after him at KTLA, won numerous local Emmy and Golden Mike awards, among others. In 1985, he received the prestigious Governor's award from the Los Angeles Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for career achievement. And in 2005, Chambers became the first recipient of the Greater Los Angeles Society of Professional Journalists' Lifetime Achievement Award.

In April 1949, early in his career at KTLA, Stan Chambers covered the story of 3 year-old Kathy Fiscus' fall down a well in the Los Angeles suburb of San Marino, California and the subsequent unsuccessful rescue attempt. This broadcast, shared with legendary reporter Bill Welsh (1911-2000), lasted nearly 40 straight hours and was considered the first live television event. It became a national story and the marathon broadcast became a template for how live news events should be covered. It also compelled the purchase of thousands of television sets in the Los Angeles area.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6922 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 1, 1982.