Larry King
Larry King (November 19, 1933 - January 23, 2021) was an American writer, journalist and broadcaster.
Career
For many years, he hosted a nightly interview program on the Cable News Network (CNN) called Larry King Live. The program ran from 1985 to 2010. It was simulcast on Westwood One radio network until 2009. Before that, he hosted a radio talk show on Mutual Radio called the Larry King Show. There he sometimes told funny stories. He interviewed some 40,000 politicians, athletes and entertainers.
King won several awards. He hosted a talk show called Politicking. That show is on Russia Television, an English language television network run by the Russian state.
His first show of Larry King Live was in 1985. He interviewed every President of the United States since Gerald Ford.
King stated he was liberal politically.
King had a heart attack in 1987 and wrote two books about life with a heart disease. He founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988 to help people who have no insurance cover the costs of treatment.
Early life
King was born Lawrence Leibel Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York City to immigrant parents. His father was from Austria and his mother was from Belarus. Both parents were Orthodox Jews.
Personal life
Larry King married eight times. His wives include:
Freda Miller (1952-1953)
Annette Kaye (1961)
Alene Akins (1961-1963)
Mickey Sutphin (1963-1967)
Alene Akins (1967-1972)
Sharon Lepore (1976-1983)
Julie Alexander (1989-1992)
Shawn Southwick (from 1997)
Death
On December 22, 2020, King was hospitalized in Los Angeles with COVID-19. King died a month later at the age of 87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on January 23, 2021 from sepsis caused by COVID.
Sources
Other websites
Larry King Live
Biography at CNN.com
Larry King Cardiac Foundation
1933 births
2021 deaths
Actors from Brooklyn
American atheists
American movie actors
American television news anchors
American television talk show hosts
CNN people
Deaths from sepsis
Jewish American actors
Jewish American writers
Jewish atheists
Journalists from New York City
Peabody Award winners
Television personalities from New York City
Writers from Brooklyn