The man with archetypal anchorman looks was the host of NBC's Dateline for 15 years. Yes, Stone is his real name, and yes, his kid's name is really Streeter.

Phillips grew up in Texas and St. Louis and attended Yale, where he quarterbacked the football team and won an Ivy League championship. In 1978 he landed his first TV job as a reporter for WXIA-TV in Atlanta. Eight years later, he went national: He joined ABC as a correspondent for World News Tonight and later signed on at 20/20, where he worked alongside Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs. Phillips jumped to NBC in 1992 to co-anchor Dateline, and that's where he remained for 15 years, working alongside Jane Pauley and, later, Ann Curry, becoming the subject of some controversy toward the end as a result of the show's pedophile-nabbing "To Catch a Predator" segments. But in May 2007, NBC News president Steve Capus dropped Phillips from the Dateline roster as part of a move to cut costs. These days, you can catch up with Stone on his website "Stone Phillips Reports." His legacy remins central to pop culture though, as Stephen Colbert based his Comedy Central fake correspondent routine in part on Phillips: "My ambition is to have Stone Phillips' neck and Geraldo Rivera's sense of mission."

He's married to Debra del Toro Phillips, a former social worker. Their oddly named son, Streeter, is an undergrad at dad's alma mater, Yale. [Image via Getty]