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Charles Hirsch Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017) [1] was an American game show creator, producer, and host. Barris was known for hosting The Gong Show and creating The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game. He was also a songwriter who wrote "Palisades Park", recorded by Freddy Cannon and also recorded by the Ramones.
Chuck Barris, the man who gave us game shows like The Newlywed Game and The Gong Show, has died at 87. Publicist Paul Shefrin, speaking on behalf of Barris' family,...
Two decades ago, producer Andrew Lazar acquired the rights to Chuck Barris‘ memoir C onfessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Biography. Stranger than fiction, the 1984 book...
Chuck Barris (born June 3, 1929, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died March 21, 2017, Palisades, New York) was an American television producer and host who created the iconic 1960s game shows The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game but was perhaps best remembered as the creator and host of the comic talent show The Gong Show, which originally ...
Chuck Barris not only hosted The Gong Show, but he is responsible for creating such iconic TV game shows as The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game. Barris died of natural causes Tuesday at his...
Chuck Barris was born on 3 June 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Gong Show Movie (1980), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and X-Men: First Class (2011).
Chuck Barris, the goofball host of The Gong Show who also was the manic mastermind behind two other spontaneous game-show classics, The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game, has died. He was...
NEW YORK (AP) — Chuck Barris, whose game show empire included “The Dating Game,” ’'The Newlywed Game” and that infamous factory of cheese, “The Gong Show,” has died. He was 87.
NEW YORK — Chuck Barris, whose game show empire included "The Dating Game," ''The Newlywed Game" and that infamous factory of cheese, "The Gong Show," died at 87. Barris died of natural...
Chuck Barris, the “Gong Show” creator, songwriter and novelist who sought to add to his already eclectic résumé with a made-up — or was it? — story about being an assassin for the...