Glenn Dickey
Acting
February 16, 1936
Died December 12, 2025 (89 years old)
Virginia, Minnesota, United States
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Acting Credits
Biography
Glenn Ernest Dickey Jr. dominated Bay Area sports journalism for over four decades with his fearless, unvarnished commentary that made him the region's most controversial and widely-read columnist. Born February 16, 1936 in Virginia, Minnesota, Dickey migrated to California with his parents—father Glenn Sr., a U.S. Forest Service employee, and mother Madlyn Emmert, a schoolteacher—when he was ten years old. After graduating from Sonora High School in 1954 where he wrote sports for the school pa...
