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Joseph Albert Wapner (November 15, 1919 – February 26, 2017) was an American judge and television personality. He is best known as the first presiding judge of the reality court show The People's Court. The show's first run in syndication, with Judge Wapner presiding as judge, continued from 1981 to 1993, for 12 seasons and 2,484 episodes ...
The longtime Los Angeles judge changed the face of television when he took the courtroom to audiences in 1981. 'People's Court' Judge Joseph Wapner dead at 97 Skip to main content
Joseph Wapner: 97 Former Judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, who became better known as the Judge on The People's Court from 1981 to 1993 and Judge Wapner's Animal Court; appeared as an alternative version of himself (as a "Soviet Judge") in Sliders, and an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to resolve a dispute ...
The People's Court is an American arbitration-based reality court show, featuring an arbitrator handling small claims disputes in a simulated courtroom set. Within the court show genre, it is the first of all arbitration-based reality-style programs, which has overwhelmingly become the convention of the genre.
Llewelyn was born in Maryland in 1938 and later moved to Lancaster, South Carolina with his family, and attended the University of South Carolina. [1] [2] He became an announcer at a South Carolina station while still in high school, and then moved to New York City, working as a page for Perry Como, and later moving to work for Chet Huntley in the news room.
U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson’s ruling declared that the actions of Taylor’s boyfriend, who fired a shot at police the night of the raid, were the legal cause of her death, not a bad ...
WEST PALM BEACH — The wife of the late Palm Beach County Judge Mark Eissey has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a handful of facilities she says are to blame for her husband's death ...
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]