Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
December 2, 1956
Age
69
Place of Birth
Berkeley, California, USA
Popularity
1.0
Kent Shocknek
Acting
Biography
Kent Shocknek (born Kent Schoknecht, December 2, 1956, in Berkeley, California) is an American actor and former television news anchor. He simplified the spelling of his surname upon arriving in Los Angeles and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Southern California. Over a 36-year journalism career, he became Southern California's first and longest-running morning news anchor, later anchoring prime-time newscasts at CBS-owned stations KCBS and KCAL. By the time he retired from news anchoring in August 2014, he was credited with having logged more hours anchoring local TV news th…
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Filmography
2026
Lanterns
TV · News Anchor
8.3
2026
R.J. Decker
TV · News Anchor
7.5
2025
Lilly Lives Alone
Movie · Man Outside Grocery Store
5.8
2023
Raveland
Movie · Jacobed's Father
0.0
2022
Bosch: Legacy
TV · Kent Shocknek
8.0
2021
Take Me to Tarzana
Movie · Kent Shocknek
7.2
2021
Secrets of Sulphur Springs
TV · News Anchor
8.1
2020
Challenger: The Final Flight
TV · Self (archive footage)
7.1
2020
SpongeBob DocuPants
TV · Self
8.3
2018
Manifest
TV · News Commentator
7.6
2018
Con Man
Movie · Reporter
4.7
2018
9-1-1
TV · National News Anchor
8.2
2017
Manhunt
TV · News Anchor
7.6
2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Movie · Kent Shocknek
6.0
2015
Supergirl
TV · Newscaster
7.3
2015
Bosch
TV · Kent Shocknek
7.9
2014
The Cookie Mobster
Movie · Local Reporter
7.1
2014
Nightcrawler
Movie · Kent Shocknek
7.7
2014
Madam Secretary
TV · Anchor
7.0
2014
Madam Secretary
TV · News Anchor #1
7.0
2014
Madam Secretary
TV · News Anchor
7.0
2014
Legends
TV · CBN Reporter
6.4
2013
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
TV · Slade Austin
8.2
2013
Jobs
Movie · 1980 News Caster
6.1