Eric Sevareid | Salary Undisclosed

Remember Murrow’s Boys? Eric Sevareid was one of Edward R. Murrow’s elite war correspondents. His first big report was the Fall of Paris in 1940, after the German forces captured the city during the Second World War. Like a true icon, the younger journalist followed in the footsteps of Murrow, eventually becoming a CBS Evening News commentator for 13 years.

The degree of his fame then became impalpable that he made his way to the popular culture. In fact, he had a number of movie and TV credits to his name. He was seen in The Right Stuff, The Best Man, The Jigsaw Man, and more. Sevareid was even Tony Banta’s (Tony Danza) fantasy on the TV series Taxi, while Ted Baxter wished he’s his father on Mary Tyler Moore Show. This particular episode gave birth to a running gag throughout the series as people mistook Baxter for Sevareid.