Jack Hiram Little (20 December 1908 – 4 January 1986) was an American-born Australian media personality, including as a television commentator for GTV-9's broadcasts of the World Championship Wrestling between 1964 through to 1978.
[1] Jack Hiram Little was born on 20 December 1908 in Missoula, Montana the second child of John Herman Little (a salesman and amateur vaudeville performer) and Edna Jane née Fife (a teacher).
[2] In 1931 Little worked for KJR, an all-sports radio station based in Seattle, Washington,[2] where, in February 1932, he commentated his first professional wrestling show from Everett.
[2] In 1952 Little moved to Australia, with his second wife, Patricia McNamara, and their family, working as a radio compere for Melbourne station, 3DB,[2][4] where he hosted his own shows, including The Greys Game, Two For the Money[5][6][7] and Magazine of the Air.
A headline making event was when a television match for the Australian championship between Killer Karl Kox and Spiros Arion was declared ended due to time limit by Little.
[2] During 1985 Andrew Duffield and Phil Kenihan produced a three-track extended play, Over the Ropes – A Tribute to Jack Little by The Forearm Jolt, which used a compilation of commentaries by Little and his co-host, Paul Jennings, from their program, World Championship Wrestling.
[2][4] The Forearm Jolt were a studio ensemble with Duffield on keyboards; Mark Ferrie on bass guitar; James Valentine on saxophone; twins sisters Sherine and Zan Abeyratne on vocals; Rozzi Bazzani on vocals; John Fielding on trumpet; Noel Crombie on thumps and bumps; and Andrew Pendlebury on lead guitar.