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Dunn was born in Warwick, New York, and was a child actor at radio station WAAT in Newark, New Jersey.
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Tom Dunn
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He started in television at WCTV in Tallahassee, Florida in 1959 after leaving the army. He served as press secretary to United States. Representative (and later Senator) Editor Gurney (R-Florida), then worked as an anchor and reporter for WTVT in Tampa, Florida from 1962 to 1964 before moving to WCBS-television where he worked from 1964 to 1968. Mr. Dunn served in that same role for WABC-television from 1969–1970 and at WOR-television from 1971-1987.
Among his duties at WOR was anchoring the long-running News at Noon.
He later worked for WPTV-television in West Palm Beach, where he did weekend evening and late night news until his retirement in the late 1990s. Dunn died of esophageal cancer in Stuart, Florida on July 2, 2006.
Mr. Dunn was an avid sailor, skier, cooking enthusiast and voracious reader.
Mr. Dunn also appeared in several motion pictures, including Turk 182 and Without A Trace.
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