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Joseph Albert Wapner was born on November 15, 1919, in Los Angeles, California, [1] to Jewish parents who had immigrated there; his father, attorney [2] Joseph Max Wapner (1898–1992), was from Romania, while his mother, Fannie (née Friedman) (1901-1990), was from Russia. Wapner had a younger sister named Irene.
The program is presided over by Judge Joseph Wapner (better known for his tenure as the original judge of The People's Court). On Judge Wapner's Animal Court, he was accompanied by his bailiff Rusty Burrell—also a People's Court carryover—while hearing and ruling on real cases involving or about animals.
The judge from the show's first 12 seasons (including the 1980 pilot) was Joseph Wapner. Rusty Burrell was his bailiff , [ 12 ] Jack Harrell was the announcer, and Doug Llewelyn was the host and court reporter , who announced the matter of the dispute at the beginning of each trial.
The longtime Los Angeles judge changed the face of television when he took the courtroom to audiences in 1981.
Milian is the first Hispanic arbitrator to preside over a court show [1] and during The People's Court's 2012–2013 season she became the show's longest-serving judge, surpassing Joseph Wapner, the show's inaugural jurist. [1]
The presiding judge during the bench trial was Joseph Wapner, who later became famous as the judge on television's The People's Court. [23] Cooke and Carnegie had two sons: John Kent Cooke and Ralph Kent Cooke. Ralph Kent Cooke's son, Jack Kent Cooke II, "died of alcoholic liver disease and a related heart condition", at 26, in January 1989. [24]
During its first 1981–93 life, The People's Court with Joseph Wapner existed as a nontraditional court show, featuring real-life arbitrations in an era of dramatized court programming. It is the first "arbitration-based reality" court show to air, beginning in 1981. In addition, it is the first popular, long-running "reality" court show.
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