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The horror host character of Count Gore de Vol (whose name was either a play on author and native Washingtonian Gore Vidal or the name of a prominent Washington D.C. funeral home, "De Vol") originated as a character called "M.T. Graves" on the Bozo show. He stayed on as the Count until 1987 when the station ceased local production.
The choice of Gore de Vol as the character's name was either a pun involving the name of acerbic author Gore Vidal or the name of a prominent Washington, D.C. funeral home, "de Vol". [2] Gore de Vol became the Washington/Baltimore area's longest-running horror host, broadcast every Saturday night on WDCA from March 1973 to May 1987. [3]
De Vol was born in Moundsville in Marshall County in northern West Virginia, and was reared in Canton, Ohio.His father, Herman Frank De Vol, was band-leader of the Grand Opera House in Canton, Ohio, [1] and his mother, Minnie Emma Humphreys De Vol, had worked in a sewing shop.
He married Isadora Scott Devol (1861–1950). Their daughter, Mary Adelaide Devol, married George H. Brett on 1 March 1916. He was a second lieutenant for the 25th Infantry Regiment on September 1, 1879; first lieutenant on October 19, 1886; regimental quartermaster April 1, 1887, to April 19, 1891.
Concha Alós, 85, Spanish writer. [1]Stan Barstow, 83, English novelist. [2]Joe Caffie, 80, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Buckeyes). [3]Carmela Marie Cristiano, 83, American Roman Catholic nun (Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth), first nun to seek political office in New Jersey.
Devol Brett was born in California in 1923 at the Presidio of San Francisco, the son of U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) general George Brett. He attended private high school, at Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, graduating in 1941. [1] In 1945 he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. [2]
Devol is a town in Cotton County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 93 at the 2020 census, an decrease of 38 percent from 150 at the 2000 census. [ 4 ] The town is named for J. Fiske Devol, who owned the land on which it stands.
Joseph Frederick Engelberger (July 26, 1925 – December 1, 2015) was an American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s.