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Bob Barker

Robert William Barker is an American retired television game show host. He is known for hosting CBS's The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history. He is also known for hosting Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1975. Born in Darrington, Washington in modest circumstances, Barker enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II. He worked part-time in radio while attending college. In 1950, he moved to California to pursue a broadcasting career. He was given his own radio show, The Bob Barker Show, which ran for six years. He began his game show career in 1956, hosting Truth or Consequences. He subsequently hosted various game shows, and the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants from 1967 to 1987, giving him the distinction of being the longest-serving host of those pageants. He began hosting The Price Is Right in 1972. When his wife Dorothy Jo died of lung cancer at age 57 in 1981, he became an advocate for animal rights and of animal rights activism, supporting groups such as the United Activists for Animal Rights and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. In 2007, he retired from hosting The Price Is Right after celebrating his 50-year career on television.


Aliases
  • Robert Barker
English

Host

Episode The Price Is Right
Mon, Apr 22, 1996
1996
Episode The Match Game
PEGGY CASS & SAL MINEO
1965
Episode The Price Is Right
Mon, Sep 8, 1986
1986
Episode The Price Is Right
Tue, Sep 9, 1986
1986
Episode The Price Is Right
Wed, Sep 10, 1986
1986
Episode The Match Game
PEGGY CASS & SAL MINEO
1965
Episode The Price Is Right
Tue, Aug 28, 1979
1979
Episode Miss USA Pageant
Miss USA 1983
1983
Series Miss USA Pageant 1952

Producer

Movie Nothing Man 2017

Guest Star

Episode Yes, Dear
The Ticket
2001
Episode Something So Right
Something About Thanksgiving
1996
Episode WWE This is Awesome
Most Awesome Celebrities
2023
Episode The Price Is Right
Thu, Dec 12, 2013.
2013
Episode Family Guy
Screwed the Pooch
2001
Episode Futurama
Lesser of Two Evils
2000
Episode Family Guy
The Fat Guy Strangler
2005
Episode Something So Right
Something About a Silver Anniversary
1997
Episode The Match Game
PEGGY CASS & SAL MINEO.
1965
Episode The Match Game
PEGGY CASS & SAL MINEO
1965
Episode WWE Raw
RAW 850
2009
Episode The Match Game
PEGGY CASS & SAL MINEO
1965
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Bob Barker, Greta Van Susteren
2009
Episode Family Guy
Tales of a Third Grade Nothing
2008
Episode The Match Game
MATCH GAME 73: MONDAY JULY 9, 1973 ON CBS-TV.
1973
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Bob Barker, Jean Smart
2009
Episode The Match Game
MATCH GAME 73: TUESDAY JULY 10, 1973 ON CBS-TV.
1973
Episode How I Met Your Mother
Showdown
2007
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Bob Barker, Melissa Rauch
2011
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Bob Barker, Lacey Chabert, Savage Garden
1998
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Bob Barker, Salma Hayek, Jane Horrocks
1998
Episode The Nanny
When You Pish upon a Star
1994