Lawrence Harvey Zeiger (born November 19, 1933), better known by his stage name Larry King, is an American television and radio host.
He is recognized in the United States as one of the premier broadcast interviewers. King has conducted some 40,000 interviews with politicians, athletes, entertainers, and other newsmakers. He has won an Emmy Award, two Peabody Awards, and ten Cable ACE Awards.
King began as a local Florida journalist and radio int...
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Lawrence Harvey Zeiger (born November 19, 1933), better known by his stage name Larry King, is an American television and radio host.
He is recognized in the United States as one of the premier broadcast interviewers. King has conducted some 40,000 interviews with politicians, athletes, entertainers, and other newsmakers. He has won an Emmy Award, two Peabody Awards, and ten Cable ACE Awards.
King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and '60s. He became prominent as an all-night national radio broadcaster starting in 1978, and then began hosting the nightly interview TV program Larry King Live on CNN, which started in 1985.
Lawrence Harvey Zeiger was born to Jennie (née Gitlitz), a garment worker, and Edward Zeiger, a restaurant owner and defense plant worker. Larry's parents were Jewish and had emigrated from Belarus (Minsk and Pinsk) to Brooklyn, New York City, where Larry was born. His father died at 44 of heart disease when King was nine, and his...
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