Art Linkletter

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About this star

  • Category: Television
  • Star rank: 1047
  • Address:
    1508 Vine St
  • Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing north
  • GPS location:
    34.099685, -118.326528

Biography

Sam Berman’s caricature of Linkletter for NBC’s 1947 promotional book.

Source: Wikipedia

Arthur Gordon “Art” Linkletter (July 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010) was a Canadian-born radio and television personality and the host of two long-running United States television shows: House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, on NBC radio-TV for 19 years. Linkletter was famous for interviewing children on House Party and Kids Say the Darndest Things, which led to a successful series of books quoting children. A native of Canada, he became a naturalized United States citizen in 1942.

Fact file

  • Born: Gordon Arthur Kelly July 17, 1912 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Died: May 26, 2010 (aged 97) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  • Occupation: Radio/television personality
  • Years active: 1933–2010
  • Spouse(s): Lois Foerster (m. 1935–2010) «start: (1935)–end+1: (2011)»“Marriage: Lois Foerster to Art Linkletter” Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Linkletter)

Read more about Art Linkletter at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database

Other stars

Art Linkletter also has stars:
  • For radio
    6347 Hollywood Blvd Hollywood Blvd, north side, between Ivar and Cahuenga

Vine St, east side, between Sunset and Selma