David William McElhatton (December 8, 1928 – August 23, 2010) was an evening news anchor for several decades in San Francisco, California, in the United States.
[3] McElhatton worked for KCBS Radio in San Francisco for 25 years, starting two weeks after college graduation.
In the early 1960s, he was the host of "McElhatton In The Morning", a blend of news and comedy, with his sidekick Homer "Friendly Clyde" Welch.
[4] While working in radio at KCBS, McElhatton (along with Friendly Clyde) hosted TV Bingo, a daytime show on KTVU Channel 2.
In Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), Hitchcock filmed a never-used 1-minute scene showing Midge Wood (Barbara Bel Geddes) and Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) listening to a radio report that the murderer had been arrested in Europe — the unseen radio announcer in this scene (included as an extra on the DVD release of Vertigo) originally was McElhatton,[12] but in his place are the dubbed-in voices of the film's restorers Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz.
[2] McElhatton was a guest lecturer at San Francisco State University in the Broadcast and Electronic Communications Department until the mid-1980s.