John Hamilton Davidson, Sr. (born December 13, 1941) is an American singer, actor and game show host known for hosting That's Incredible!, Time Machine, and Hollywood Squares in the 1980s, and a revival of The $100,000 Pyramid in 1990.
Davidson was born to two Baptist ministers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ("The Mike Douglas Show", July 11, 1974) and graduated from high school in White Plains, New York before entering Denison University. His boyis...
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John Hamilton Davidson, Sr. (born December 13, 1941) is an American singer, actor and game show host known for hosting That's Incredible!, Time Machine, and Hollywood Squares in the 1980s, and a revival of The $100,000 Pyramid in 1990.
Davidson was born to two Baptist ministers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ("The Mike Douglas Show", July 11, 1974) and graduated from high school in White Plains, New York before entering Denison University. His boyish good looks, broad smile, and telegenic charm gained him entry to such TV venues as sitcoms, game shows, variety shows, and talk shows. He is perhaps best known for hosting 1980-84's That's Incredible!, a human interest/ stunt-themed series created in the tradition of the 1950s TV show You Asked For It.
During an appearance on the game show Scrabble in 1987, he told the national TV audience that he appeared as an underwear model in the 1959 Sears catalogue; he would have been 17 at the time. Davidson made his Broadway debut in the 1964...
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