Ernest Earle Anderson was an American radio and television personality, horror host, and announcer. Known for his portrayal of "Ghoulardi", the host of late night horror films on WJW Channel 8 on Cleveland television from 1963 to 1966, he worked as an announcer for the American Broadcasting Company television network from the late 1970s until the mid-1990s. He is the father of filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, whose production entity is known as the Ghoulardi Film Company.

Filmography

• 2009Turn Blue: The Short Life of Ghoulardi — Ghoulardi, Himself
• 1997Hard Eight — Pants on Fire Person
• 1995Powerpuff Girls : Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins — Dad / Dog (voice)
• What a Cartoon! — Narrator (voice)
• Animaniacs — Announcer (voice)
• Dinosaurs — Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
• 1991Ricochet — Television Promo Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
• 1990America's Funniest Home Videos Game — Announcer
• 1988The Dirk Diggler Story — Narrator (uncredited)
• 1986That's Life! — T.V. Announcer
• Mr. Belvedere
• Street Hawk — Narrator (voice)
• 1983The Making of 'Superman II' — Narrator (voice)
• 1982The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' — Narrator (voice)
• 1976Tunnel Vision — Quant O'Neill / Subway Reporter / Announcer
• Cannon
• Rango
• The Second Hundred Years — Bank Guard
• Laredo
• Mister Roberts
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
• Ben Casey
• Gunsmoke — Man
• General Electric Theater — Sergeant Cullen

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2023Commitment to Life — Self (archive)
• 2007Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy — Self (archive footage)
• 2006American Scary — Himself / 'Ghoulardi'
• 2000Stay Sick! Turn Blue!: Big Chuck and Lil' John's Tribute to Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson — Self (Archive Footage)