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Biography: In addition to receiving a Daytime Emmy
Award for Lifetime Achievement, Bob Barker has won a record-breaking
11 Daytime Emmys as Outstanding Game Show Host for THE PRICE IS RIGHT,
including one in 2000. As the show's executive producer, he has received
two additional Emmys for Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show.
Barker has hosted THE PRICE IS RIGHT since its premiere
on the CBS Television Network in 1972. During his first three years
on the show, he was also hosting his 16th through 18th seasons of "Truth
or Consequences." This year marks his 45th on network television and
the 30th consecutive season of THE PRICE IS RIGHT on CBS.
In March 1998, historic Stage 33 at CBS Television City
in Los Angeles, from which many legendary television shows were broadcast
and where THE PRICE IS RIGHT is taped, was renamed the Bob Barker Studio.
Barker was born in Darrington, Wash., and raised on the
Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where his widowed mother
taught school. After serving as a Navy pilot during World War II, he
was graduated from Drury College in Springfield, Mo., and worked in
radio there and in Florida before moving to Los Angeles, where Ralph
Edwards hired him for "Truth or Consequences" in 1956.
He served as master of ceremonies for the "Miss Universe
Pageant" and "Miss USA Pageant" for 20 years and has hosted the "Tournament
of Roses Parade," all on the Network.
He made his theatrical motion picture debut in the comedy
"Happy Gilmore."
Barker lives in Los Angeles. His birth date is December
12th.
Television Credits:
The Price Is Right
as Host (1972 to present)
Family Guy as Himself"
(voice) in episode: "Screwed the Pooch" (original airdate: 11/29/2001)
Yes, Dear as Himself
in episode: "The Ticket" (original airdate: 10/22/2001)
Futurama as Himself
(voice) in episode: "Lesser of Two Evils" (original airdate: 02/20/2000)
Martial Law as
Himself in episode: "Shanghai Express" (original airdate: 09/26/1998)
Something So
Right as Ben in episode: "Something About a Silver Anniversary"
(original airdate: 02/18/1997)
Something So
Right as Ben in episode: "Something About Thanksgiving" (original
airdate: 11/26/1996)
The Nanny as Himself
in episode: "When You Pish Upon a Star" (original airdate: 11/21/1994)
The Family Game as Host (1967)
Dream Girl Of 1967 as Substitute Host (June 12th-16th, 1967)
Truth Or Consequences as Host (Syndicated version: 1966-1974)
Bonanza in episode:
"Denver McKee" (original airdate: 10/15/1960)
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