Larry King entertainer

LARRY KING has been dubbed "the most remarkable talk-show host on TV ever" by TV Guide and "master of the mike" by TIME magazine. The Emmy Award-winning King hosted CNN's Larry King Live, the first worldwide phone-in television talk show and the network's highest rated program for over 25 years. He also hosted Larry King Weekend for CNN, as well as a series of specials for CNN's sister network, TNT. Entertainment Tonight called him the "master interviewer."

In addition, he wrote a weekly newspaper column for USA Today and has written 15 books. Described as the "Muhammad Ali of the broadcast interview," King has been inducted into five of the nation's leading broadcasting halls of fame. Both his radio and television shows have won the George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting. He also has won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Interview/interviewer and 10 CableACE award for Best Interviewer and for best Talk Show Series.

Larry has received honorary degrees from George Washington University, the New England Institute of Technology, Brooklyn College and the Pratt Institute and was a commencement speaker at Columbia University Medical School. In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate degree from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.

He has made cameo appearances in 23 movies including Ghost Busters, Primary Colors, Contact, The Kid, The Contender, America' s Sweetheart, and 3 Shrek films. King has appeared in such television series as Murphy Brown, Frasier and Murder One.

He founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, which awards grants to individuals suffering from heart disease to help pay for much needed medical treatment. He also is involved with the American Heart Association and the Save the Children Foundation.

After more than 25 years, holding the record for hosting the longest running talk show, with the same host, in the same time slot and on the same network, King ended his CNN Larry King Live daily talk show to spend more time with his wife and children and to launch other projects in media, entertainment and business.

In so doing, Larry King joins Ted Turner, Tom Brokaw, Charles Schwab and other notables on the VIP Jury of the 2011 Film Your Issue, a groundbreaking entrepreneurial initiative and competition directed at those 50 and up, inviting new society-benefitting projects in partnership with the U.S Chamber of Commerce and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

King is the father of Andy, Larry Jr. and Chaia, as well as Chance and Cannon from his marriage to Shawn Southwick-King in September 1997, and is stepfather to Danny Southwick from Shawn's first marriage.

The Kings split their time between the East and West coasts, with a vacation home in Provo, Utah.

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