Richard E. Dyszel, known professionally as Dick Dyszel (March 20, 1947-) is an American television personality, best known for Count Gore de Vol, his television horror host alter-ego. March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Count Gore de Vol is a television horror host who originally appeared on Washington, DCs WDCA from 1973 to 1987. ...

The Chicago native attended Southern Illinois University and graduated with a degree in radio-TV. He became the local Bozo the Clown at WDXR-TV in Paducah, Kentucky before moving on to WDCA in Washington in 1972. He was a jack of all trades at WDCA, functioning as the station's announcer, as kids' show host Captain 20 as well as Washington's second Bozo, after Willard Scott had originated the local version of the character. The character of Count Gore de Vol (whose name was a play on author Gore Vidal) originated as a character called M.T. Graves on Bozo. He stayed on as the Count until 1987 and left for Chicago in 1995. Southern Illinois University is a university in southern Illinois with two institutions and multiple campuses. ... Pinto Colvig, the original Bozo the Clown. ... Paducah is a city located in McCracken County, Kentucky at the confluence of the Tennessee River and the Ohio River. ... Official language(s) English Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... WDCA is the Washington, D.C. areas UPN affiliate station, broadcasting on channel 20 (digital channel 35), with transmitter facilities located in Bethesda, Maryland. ... Captain 20 was an astronaut (and later an alien) who hosted Washington, D.C.s WDCA (Channel 20) afternoon childrens television block of cartoons and live action shorts like Ultraman. ... Willard Herman Scott, Jr. ... Gore Vidal, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925), known simply as Gore Vidal, is a prolific and versatile American writer of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays and has been a public and often controversial figure on both the American literary and...

In 1998, Dyszel became the first horror host to present a weekly show on the Internet, featuring Count Gore hosting streaming video of movies and shorts.

External links

• Official Website
• Dick Dyszel Bio
• Dick Dyszel at the Internet Movie Database