Stu kerr biography

American television personality

Thomas Stewart "Stu" Kerr (March 9, 1928 - July 17, 1994) was a Baltimore television personality who developed and hosted a number of programs on Baltimore television from 1952 through the 1980s.

Kerr was born in Yonkers, New York and as a teenager worked as an NBC page at the network's Rockefeller Center headquarters. He later recalled "sitting in Lowell Thomas' [sic] seat right after he left, while it was still warm", practicing script reading.^[1] His first full-time broadcasting job was on the radio at the age of 19.

He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1950 and saw combat action during the Korean War.

Kerr's television career began in 1952 at WMAR-TV in Baltimore, where he created The Janitor, a late-night show displaying his talent for improvisation.

He then played in various children's shows at WMAR-TV, beginning with The Early Riser and Bozo the Clown in the 1960s and, later, inventing the character Professor