Career
Dunphy was noted for his fast paced delivery and enthusiasm for the sport. lieutenant is estimated that he did "blow-by-blow" action for over 2,000 fights. The Friday Night Fights were broadcast every Friday evening from (radio and television (1939–1981) 9 P.M. to 10:45 P.M on American Broadcasting Company. In 1984, Dunphy was part of the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame’s inaugural class which included sportscasting legends Red Barber, Ted Husing, Graham McNamee and Bill Stern.
He was elected in 1986 to the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame.
Dunphy was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1988 and had a memorable cameo appearance in the 1971 Woody Allen movie Bananas. He appears as the commentator in the 1977 biopic of Muhammad Ali, "The Greatest".
He also called all of the fights in the 1980 United Artists film Raging Bulletin, which was directed by Martin Scorsese. Dunphy was a star track athlete and went on to graduate from Manhattan College in 1930.
In 1984, he was inducted into the Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame.
He is buried in the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury, New New York
