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Dick Clark Wiki Biography

• A popular American game show host, businessman, radio, and television personality, film producer, and actor, Richard Augustus Wagstaff Clark Jr. was simply known as Dick Clark. 
• Dick Clark is perhaps best known as the host of an “American Bandstand” music performance show that ran from 1957 to 1989. 
• One of the first shows at the time to cross the line between white and black viewers and question racial discrimination was the display that featured teenagers dancing to the music of such artists as Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, Run DMC, and others. 
• The influence of Clark on the culture of youth gave him the nickname “America’s oldest teenager” and gained him a lot of popular attention. 
• Dick Clark’s net worth is thought to be $200 million, according to reports. 
• As a television host, as well as his business activities, the bulk of Dick Clark’s net worth and annual salary, came from his career. 
• Dick Clark was born in 1929 and attended Davis High School in Mount Vernon, New York. 
• Clark’s career started with his first job at the AM radio station, where he climbed up the ladder quickly and became an announcer soon enough. 
• Clark had worked on several other radio stations prior to his television debut, including WOLF-AM and WRUN. 
• In 1957, the show premiered and culminated in several spin-offs and other TV series. 
• Dick Clark had his own show called “The Dick Clark Show” a year later. 
• The show became an immediate success with an audience of over 20 million, while Dick Clark himself received the title of “the youngest Starmaker in America.” 
• Dick Clark greatly extended his career with national success in his wallet and ventured into hosting game shows. 
• Clark was the host of “The Object Is,” “Missing Links,” as well as “The $10,000 Pyramid,” a popular game show created by Bob Stewart. 
• From 1973 until 1988, Clark presented the show and received three Emmy Awards for “Pyramid” as Best Game Show Host. 
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• 1952-1961) Since They’re Young Best Game Shooting (1957-1989) Kari Wigton (m. 
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Dick Clark Quick Info

Dick Clark Trademarks

1. Short stature
2. His youthful appearance
3. His departing catchphrase delivered with a military salute.

Dick Clark Quotes

• My business is teenagers. I don’t set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
• Music is the soundtrack of our life.
• Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark Important Facts

• The last game show he ever hosted was Winning Lines (2000).
• Raised in an apartment building.
• Appeared on the second-to-last episode as himself, on an episode of The Weird Al Show (1997), where he did counted down to the end of the show. Something he did everytime he hosted ‘Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Years Eve’.
• Had English and German heritage.
• Started seeing stage theater, for the first time, when he was age 13, such as: Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore.
• Had an old diary, back in 1938, at the time, Clark was 8, he wrote, ‘I listened to the radio.’.
• His elder brother, Bradley, was killed in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.
• Was featured in the documentary film Bowling for Columbine (2002). He was criticized for hiring poor, unwed mothers to work long hours in his chain of restaurants for little pay. The mother featured is shown to work over 80 hours per week and is still unable to make her rent and then gets evicted which results in her having to have her son stay at his uncle’s house. At his uncle’s house the boy finds a gun and brings it to school where he shoots another first grader. In the documentary footage, Michael Moore, with cameraman in tow, approached Clark as he was pulling into his work parking space and attempted to question Clark about welfare policies that allow for those conditions. Moore tried to query him about the people he employed and the tax breaks he allegedly took advantage of, in employing welfare recipients; Clark refuses to answer any of Moore’s questions, shutting the car door and driving away.
• Dick Clark passed away on April 18, 2012, at age 82. His former television boss Bob Stewart, passed away, just 2 weeks after Clark, at age 91.
• Clark noted during the special that New American Bandstand 1965 (1952) was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as ‘the longest-running variety show in TV history.’.
• In 2002, many of the groups, he introduced appeared at the 50th anniversary special to celebrate New American Bandstand 1965 (1952).
• In 1964, relocated from Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, to Los Angeles, California, where he lived until his death in 2012.
• His first radio exposure was hosting the short-lived program, ‘The Dick Clark Radio Show.’.
• Episodes he hosted on New American Bandstand 1965 (1952) were among the first where blacks and whites performed on the same stage and among the first where the live studio audience sat without racial segregation. Singer Paul Anka claimed that Bandstand was responsible for creating a ‘youth culture.’ Due to his perennial youthful appearance, Clark was often referred to as “America’s Oldest Teenager.”.
• His birthplace, Mount Vernon, New York, is 5 miles West of Yonkers, New York, and 19 miles North of New York City, New York.
• Reunited with Casey Kasem on an episode of It Takes Two (1997).
• An avid radio listener, when he was a boy.
• A member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi Gamma).
• Had type-2 diabetes.
• His widow, Kari Clark, was 13 years his junior.
• Disco singer Donna Summer guest hosted New American Bandstand 1965 (1952), once. On that day, it was an ‘All Salute To Disco.’.
• Ranked #7 on Life’s 15 Best Game Show Hosts.
• At age 22, Clark moved to Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1952, to pursue a career as a radio disc jockey and a television personality, who would live there until 1962.
• Though he never retired from hosting or producing television, he took a medical leave, at age 75, after a stroke.
• Before he was a successful game show host, television personality and producer, he worked as a principal in pro-broadcasters operator of 1440 KPRO in Riverside, California, from 20 years.
• Graduated from A.B. Davis High School in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1947.
• Met another disc jockey, Casey Kasem, on KTLA’s after-school dance show, ‘Shebang,’ in 1963. The friendship lasted 49 years, until Clark’s death in 2012.
• Had also hosted another long-running radio show, Rock, Roll & Remember, a four-hour oldies show named after Clark’s 1976 autobiography. Each week, Clark would profile a different artist from the rock and roll era and count down the top four songs that week from a certain year in the 1950s, 1960s or early 1970s. He hosted the show, every year, for 23 years, until Clark suffered a stroke, late in 2004.
• Dick Clark passed away on April 18, 2012, at age 82. This was just 2 1/2 months after Don Cornelius committed suicide. Both Clark and Cornelius had a feud when Clark created and produced the short-lived series ‘Soul Unlimited,’ which was a more risqué and controversial imitator of the then-popular series Soul Train (1971).
• Co-owner of Swan Records.
• He hosted The Dick Clark Show (1958) on ABC, from New York City’s Little Theater (renamed, in 1983, The Helen Hayes Theater). The half-hour weekly show headlined five top pop/rock acts each week. Many of the regular teens who appeared on New American Bandstand 1965 (1952) made the trip from Philadelphia to New York City and were seated in the audience.
• In its first season (1957), ABC presented a nighttime version of New American Bandstand 1965 (1952). It ran for a half-hour for 13 weeks on Monday nights (Oct. 7-Dec. 30). Dick’s guests included The Everly Brothers, Mickey & Sylvia and The Billy Williams Quartette. Ironically, the nighttime “American Bandstand”, hosted by Clark, would finally end the night before New Year’s Eve 1957. Beginning in 1972 and for four decades Clark would be a welcome guest in American households as host of “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve”.
• From 1965-67 he hosted Where the Action Is (1965), a daily mid-afternoon rock/pop variety show similar in format to Shindig! (1964) and Hullabaloo (1965), complete with go-go dancers and top recording acts. The show originated from various vacation resorts such as California’s Big Sur and Malibu. Regulars on the show performed their own songs, as well as other hits of the day, They included Linda Scott, Steve Alaimo and Paul Revere & The Raiders.
• In the history of New American Bandstand 1965 (1952), only two recording artists performed the same song twice, in one appearance. This occurred in 1958, when Chuck Berry, in his network TV debut, sang “Rock and Roll Music” and in 1961, when Gary U.S. Bonds performed “A Quarter To Three”,.
• He was a lifelong Republican and conservative.
• When he was new to Hollywood, Ryan Seacrest went to Clark’s office to talk to him about breaking into show business. Clark’s secretary initially turned him away, but Clark stopped her, inviting Seacrest into his office. The two became good friends and Seacrest credits Clark for being his mentor and helping launch his career.
• His idol, when he was very young, was Bill Cullen.
• When New American Bandstand 1965 (1952) was first televised by ABC in 1957, the program started a half-hour earlier at 2:30 pm weekdays on local affiliate WFIL in Philadelphia, then joined the network at 3:00 pm. At 3:30 pm the telecast broke away for a half-hour and was replaced by the quiz show Do You Trust Your Wife? (1957) starring Johnny Carson, televised from New York. “Bandstand” returned to the air from 5:00-6:00 pm. This was a rarity, even by today’s standards: a 90-minute live show, with another program serving as an intermission.
• Replaced Bob Horn as the new host of New American Bandstand 1965 (1952), for which he had hosted for 31 years, from 1956 to 1987.
• Before he was a successful television host, a game show host and a producer, he used to share afternoon duties with the then-New American Bandstand 1965 (1952) host, Bob Horn at WFIL-AM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Horn was working on radio and television simultaneously, and wasn’t happy about it.
• Was Bob Stewart’s first choice as host of the new game show, The $10,000 Pyramid (1973), which he accepted and stayed with the role, for 16 years, with only a couple of interruptions, between 1973 and 1989.
• Made a guest appearance on an episode of Let’s Make a Deal (1990), where he was showing the dealers an item.
• Because he was hosting The Challengers (1990) at the time, he was unavailable to host the revamped version of The $10,000 Pyramid (1973) in early 1991, when John Davidson became the new host. On the premiere episode, he sent a pre-recorded message wishing Davidson well in hosting the show.
• In his six-decade career, he had an almost 40-year history of hosting game shows, as well as a Top 40 radio countdown show.
• Best remembered by the public as the host of New American Bandstand 1965 (1952) and The $10,000 Pyramid (1973).
• Made 2 cameo appearances on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990). In one episode he plays himself at a Philadelphia diner, and in the other he helps Will Smith’s character host bloopers from past episodes of that sitcom.
• In his 16-year tenure as the host of The $10,000 Pyramid (1973), among the guests were Vicki Lawrence, Jamie Farr, Constance McCashin, Henry Polic II, Ed Begley Jr., Martha Smith, Shelley Smith, Teresa Ganzel, Barry Jenner and David Graf.
• At the beginning of Clark’s 31st year (1986-87) of hosting New American Bandstand 1965 (1952), ABC had reduced the series from a full hour to 30 minutes, and the guest list was dropped from 2 artists to 1 artist, for each show, and Clark was very disappointed in the show the direction was going, therefore, his show moved from ABC to syndication to The USA Cable Network, with David Hirsch replacing Dick Clark as host, in the final season of 1988.
• Friends with: Bob Barker, Casey Kasem, Bob Eubanks, Richard Dawson, Gene Rayburn, Bill Cullen, Geoff Edwards, Wink Martindale, Chuck Woolery, Alex Trebek, Jim Lange, Ed McMahon, Dinah Shore, Johnny Gilbert, Charlie O’Donnell, Connie Francis, Donna Summer, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Robert Conrad, Pat Sajak, Regis Philbin, Jo Anne Worley, Vicki Lawrence, Jamie Farr, Betty White, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, Marla Gibbs and Barry Manilow.
• Over the years, his show New American Bandstand 1965 (1952) gave many new music artists their first exposure to national audiences, including those of Ike Turner and his ex-wife Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Melba Moore, Donna Summer, Madonna, Michael Damian, Gladys Knight, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Mariah Carey, Cyndi Lauper, Talking Heads, The Beatles, The Monkees, Stevie Wonder, Simon & Garfunkel and Paul Anka.
• On an episode of American Idol (2002), host and good friend Ryan Seacrest paid tribute to him, along with another television host, Don Cornelius, who died 2 1/2 months before him. [18 April 2012].
• Before his death, he underwent surgery to fix an enlarged prostate.
• Upon his death, he was cremated and his ashes were scattered into Pacific Ocean.
• Had worked with Charlie O’Donnell three times, on New American Bandstand 1965 (1952), The $10,000 Pyramid (1973) and Super Bloopers and Pratical Jokes (1984).
• Met Ed McMahon, when the two were both living in Philadelphia, and McMahon praised him for first bringing him together with future television partner Johnny Carson when all three worked at ABC in the late 1950s. More than a quarter of a century later, Clark would be re-teaming up with McMahon hosting Super Bloopers and Pratical Jokes (1984).
• Filled in for Casey Kasem once on American Top 40 in 1972.
• Had hosted his New Years’ Rockin’ Eve every year from 1972 to 1999 (when it was preempted for ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999)), then from 2001 to 2003, just the year before he suffered a massive stroke, which reduced his role, between 2005 to 2011.
• Long before he was one of Hollywood’s successful television hosts and producers, he worked at WOLF-AM, then a country music station, in Syracuse, New York.
• Longtime friend of Tony Orlando and Larry Klein.
• Mentor and friend of Ryan Seacrest.
• Received a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994 and a Peabody Award in 1999.
• Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1976.
• He had been in St. John’s Hospital in Los Angeles after undergoing an outpatient procedure the night of April 17, 2012. He suffered a massive heart attack following the procedure. Attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful and he died the next morning, April 18, 2012.
• Was considered as host of Las Vegas Gambit (1972), but lost the job to fellow game show host Wink Martindale. Clark would do The $10,000 Pyramid (1973), nearly 7 months later.
• He produced the late Friday night ABC-TV series, In Concert (1972) (1972-1973), which featured many of the top rock acts of the day including Alice Cooper, Jim Croce and The Allman Brothers Band.
• In one of his few dramatic roles, he played against his nice guy image to portray the murderer in the final episode (air date 2 May 1966) of Perry Mason (1957). The episode was appropriately titled, Perry Mason: The Case of the Final Fade-Out (1966). He also played against type as a nerdy guy who turns out to be a psycho killer in the film, Killers Three (1968).
• Was a close personal friend of singer Connie Francis. Connie’s music label was going to drop her if her last recorded song didn’t sell. Thankfully, Dick played it, “Who’s Sorry Now”, on New American Bandstand 1965 (1952) and it became an instant hit. Dick stayed by her side even through her personal tragedies and she thanks him in every single one of her shows.
• In 2005, for the first time in 32 years, he was not around to see the New Year in with his “Rockin’ New Year’s Eve” celebration on television. It was hoped that after he had suffered his mild stroke in early December 2004 that he would recover enough to host the festivities. With Clark still in his hospital bed on New Year’s Eve, Regis Philbin filled in for him.
• In December of 2004 he was hospitalized for a mild stroke. He recovered.
• Rarely consumed alcoholic beverages, and every December 31, when he and his wife hosted “Rockin’ New Year’s Eve”, she didn’t drink, either.
• Filed suit in federal court in Los Angeles, alleging that Michael Greene, president and chief executive of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, maintains a “blacklist” policy that prevents stars – including Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Sean Combs and Toni Braxton – from performing on both Greene’s Grammy Awards and Clark’s American Music Awards. The suit seeks $10 million in damages. (19 December 2001)
• He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1990.
• Child with first wife Barbara Mallery, Richard, Jr., was born 9 January 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• On 2/14/02, Dick Clark Productions announced it will be acquired for $140 million by Mosaic Media Group, Inc., Capital Communications CDPQ Inc., and Jules Haimovitz, a senior television executive. Stockholders will receive $14.50 per share in cash. Clark himself will receive $12.50 per share in cash for a portion of his shares. Dick Clark Productions was founded in 1957.
• Was the co-owner of Film Ventures International Pictures with Edward L. Montoro for several years.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
• Children with Loretta Martin: Duane Clark and Cindy Clark.
• In 1959, the United States Senate began investigating the practice of “payola”, in which record companies bribed radio personalities to play new records. Clark admitted he accepted a fur stole and jewelry and held financial interests in artists and songs that were frequently on New American Bandstand 1965 (1952). Even though he was cleared of any wrongdoing, he was ordered to either leave ABC or sell his interests; he sold.
• When New American Bandstand 1965 (1952) was picked up by ABC in 1957, he changed its name to “American Bandstand”, ended the show’s all-white policy and began introducing black artists. By 1959, it was broadcast by 101 affiliates and reached an audience of 20 million.
• Graduated from Syracuse University in 1951 with a degree in business administration.
• Before he was a successful television host and producer, he began his career in 1945, in the mailroom of WRUN in Utica, New York, working his way up to weatherman and then newsman. WRUN was owned by Dick’s uncle and run by Dick’s father.
• First wife Barbara Mallery (aunt of composer Billy Mallery) was his childhood sweetheart.
• John Davidson’s father was the man who performed Dick and Kari Clark’s wedding vows.
• He and his wife, Kari Clark, were married on 7/7/77 in a ceremony that started at 7:00 pm. His address in Burbank at that time was PO Box 7777.

Dick Clark Filmography

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