Biography

Bill Stout was born on September 4, 1927 in Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Ugly American (1963), The Candidate (1972) and Science Fiction Theatre (1955). He died on December 1, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located on the East side of the 1500 block of Vine Street in Hollywood, California. The star was awarded to him in 1987, while he was recovering from a near-fatal heart attack. He died two years later, still on the job as an Emmy Award-winning commentator for CBS News in Los Angeles, California.

Bill Stout was a broadcast journalist (both in the field and as an anchorman) for CBS Television and KNXT (later KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles for over thirty years. He is the reporter who moderated Richard Nixon's press conference following his defeat in the California governor's race in 1962 (the famous "you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" speech at the Beverly Hilton hotel).

Following his sudden death, he was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), in the Sheltering Hills section, Lot 5196, Grave 3, in Los Angeles, California. His epitaph reads simply, "Newsman".

As the grumpy host of the CBS News commentary segment "Bill Stout's Perspective", he was perhaps most famous for his "Turkey of the Month" awards, presented to public figures of all spheres for egregious conduct, which he always backed with video evidence. Each New Year's Eve Stout aired a special "Turkey of the Year" segment while wearing a tacky, ill-fitting tuxedo. This was his sarcastic response to network demands that he glamorize his naturally rumpled, balding image.

Stout was a regular at the original Cock 'n Bull on the Sunset Strip. He was quoted in the "obituary" for the Cock 'n Bull that ran in the L.A. Times in September 1987. The Times included Stout's story of seeing Alan Mowbray having eggs and gin for breakfast one day. Said quote is found in Mowbry's IMDb trivia section.