Stu Nahan Biography

Fast Facts

• Attended McGill University in Montreal, where he was a goalie on the school's hockey team
• Began his broadcasting career as a nightly sports reporter on KABC in Los Angeles in 1968
• Started out as hockey player for the Los Angeles Monarchs in 1946
• His first film role was in the TV movie "Brian's Song" in 1971, which led him to appear in a number of films as a sports commentator, including "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," in which he interviewed Sean Penn's character during a dream sequence
• Quote: "(On why he quit hockey): "The real reason I quit was because I had a terrific sunburn on the back of my neck, which I got because the red light was on most of the time I was in the net․""
• Best known as a Los Angeles sportscaster who played a boxing commentator in the "Rocky" film series
• In addition to KABC, he worked at KNBC from 1977 to 1988 before joining KTLA, where he worked for 11 years before retiring from television in 1999
• Also worked as a radio sports talk show host for KABC-AM and on the Dodgers pre- and postgame radio shows on KFWB
• Was the host of a children's TV show in Sacramento in which he played "Skipper Stu" and later hosted another in Philadelphia in which he was "Captain Philadelphia․"