Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Clooney (born January 13, 1934) is an American journalist, anchorman, and television host. He is the brother of the late singer Rosemary Clooney, and father of actor and film director George Clooney.
Clooney was born Nicholas Joseph Clooney in Maysville, Kentucky, the son of Marie Frances (née Guilfoyle) and Andrew Joseph Clooney. His father was of Irish and German descent and his mother was of Irish and English ancestry. W...
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Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Clooney (born January 13, 1934) is an American journalist, anchorman, and television host. He is the brother of the late singer Rosemary Clooney, and father of actor and film director George Clooney.
Clooney was born Nicholas Joseph Clooney in Maysville, Kentucky, the son of Marie Frances (née Guilfoyle) and Andrew Joseph Clooney. His father was of Irish and German descent and his mother was of Irish and English ancestry. While serving as a Corporal in the US Army, he was a disc jockey in the American Forces Network in Germany, hosting the shows Music in the Air and Melody-Go-Round. He then moved to California for a try at show business. When that did not work out, Clooney moved to Ohio, where he met Nina Warren when she was a contestant in a beauty pageant he was judging; they married in August 1959.
Clooney had a five-year stint in the 1960s as a news anchor at WKYT-TV in Lexington, Kentucky, then went to Ohio to host his own TV show, the "Nick Clooney Show",...
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