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Dick Clark
Richard Wagstaff Clark was an American television and radio personality and television producer who hosted American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989. He also hosted five incarnations of the Pyramid game show from 1973 to 1988 and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which broadcast New Year's Eve celebrations in New York City's Times Square.
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business · American radio and television personality (1929–2012) · actor · businessperson · film producer · screenwriter · radio personality · television producer · game show host · presenter · television personality · manufacturer · also Dick Clark, Richard Wagstaff Clark, Clark
Born 30 November 1929 · Died 18 April 2012 · Q366563
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2026· 3 entries
Public attention spiked: 2,800 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.6× the usual 614, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Filmography One of Dick Clark's film producer credits.
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Reported net worth: $200M.
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Disney Legends (2013).
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2012· 2 entries
Clark died from a heart attack at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 82, shortly after undergoing a transurethral resection procedure to treat an enlarged prostate
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Died 2012-04-18.
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2010· 1 entry
American Bandstand and Clark himself were honored at the Daytime Emmy Awards
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2006· 1 entry
"Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater" opened in Branson in April 2006, and nine months later, a new theater and restaurant titled "Dick Clark's American Bandstand Music Complex" opened near Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
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2004· 1 entry
Clark was hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering what was initially termed a minor stroke
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2002· 2 entries
Clark played as a celebrity guest for three days on the Donny Osmond version
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Many of the bands he introduced appeared at the 50th anniversary special to celebrate American Bandstand
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2000· 1 entry
Called Challenge of the Child Geniuses, the last game show he hosted
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1999· 1 entry
Along with Bob Boden, he was one of the executive producers of Fox's TV game show Greed, which ran from November 5, 1999, to July 14, 2000, and was hosted by Chuck Woolery
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Television Hall of Fame (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
Clark sent a pre-recorded message wishing Davidson well in hosting the show
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1990· 4 entries
Awarded Radio Hall of Fame (1990).
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Awarded Grammy Trustees Award (1990).
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A couple of years after the show had been off the air, Clark considered his personal contribution to the music he helped introduce:
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It was noted that "over two-thirds of the people who've been initiated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had their television debuts on American Bandstand, and the rest of them probably debuted on other shows [they] pr
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1989· 1 entry
With David Hirsch taking over hosting duties
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1987· 2 entries
In 1987, Dick Clark Productions went public.
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Dick Clark Productions went public
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1985· 1 entry
And, when Clark left Mutual, he began hosting USRN's "Countdown America" which continued until 1995
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1984· 1 entry
Clark produced and hosted the NBC series TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes with co-host Ed McMahon
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1983· 1 entry
Voiceover talent Mark Elliot co-hosted with Clark
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1982· 1 entry
Clark launched his own radio syndication group with partners Nick Verbitsky and Ed Salamon called the United Stations Radio Network
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1981· 1 entry
Created The Dick Clark National Music Survey for the Mutual Broadcasting System
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1980· 1 entry
Clark served as host of the short-lived series The Big Show, an unsuccessful attempt by NBC to revive the variety show format of the 1950s/'60s
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host (1979).
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From 1979 to 1980, Clark reportedly owned the former Westchester Premier Theatre in Greenburgh, New York, renaming it the Dick Clark Westchester Theatre.
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1977· 1 entry
Rockin' Eve experienced a surge in popularity and later became the most-watched annual New Year's Eve broadcast
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1973· 2 entries
Clark began producing the highly successful American Music Awards
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Created and produced the annual American Music Awards show, similar to the Grammy Awards
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1972· 2 entries
Clark hosted American Top 40, filling in for Casey Kasem
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Dick Clark first produced New Year's Rockin' Eve, a New Year's Eve music special for NBC which included coverage of the ball drop festivities in New York City
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1967· 2 entries
Clark made an appearance in the Batman television series
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Purchased KGUD-AM-FM (now KTMS and KTYD, respectively) in Santa Barbara, California
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1965· 1 entry
Clark branched out from hosting, producing Where the Action Is, an afternoon television program shot at different locations every week featuring house band Paul Revere and the Raiders
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1964· 1 entry
And replaced by Missing Links, which had moved from NBC
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1963· 1 entry
Began hosting a radio program called The Dick Clark Radio Show
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1960· 1 entry
The United States Senate investigated payola, the practice of music-producing companies paying broadcasting companies to favor their product
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1959· 2 entries
On This Is Your Life, host Ralph Edwards called him "America's youngest starmaker", and estimated the show had an audience of 50 million
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And continuing into the mid-1960s, Clark produced and hosted the Caravan of Stars, a series of concert tours built upon the success of American Bandstand, which by 1959 had a national audience of 20 million
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1958· 1 entry
The Dick Clark Show was added to ABC's Saturday night lineup
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1956· 2 entries
Clark became the show's permanent host
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Horn was arrested for drunk driving and was subsequently dismissed
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1952· 1 entry
Clark moved to Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, a section of Upper Darby just outside of Philadelphia, where he took a job as a disc jockey at radio station WFIL, adopting the Dick Clark handle
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1951· 1 entry
With a degree in advertising and a minor in radio
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1945· 1 entry
Clark began his career working in the mailroom at WRUN, an AM radio station in Utica, New York, that was owned by his uncle and managed by his father
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1929· 2 entries
Born 1929-11-30.
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In Bronxville, New York, a suburb of New York City
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