Longtime Pittsburgh personality and TV host Bill Cardille died at 1:15 a.m. today at his home in McCandless.Mr. Cardille, 87, recently had been diagnosed with liver cancer.Mr. Cardille was the co-creator and host of "Chiller Theatre," which has been off the air since January 1984 but is remembered for its late-night horror flicks.
He
was a lay reader at the parish my college girlfriend attended, which
always cracked me up a little. I expected him to announce from the
lectern not the epistle, but a Godzilla movie.