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Larry King

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Also known as Lawrence Zeiger

American television and radio host (1933–2021)

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Larry King was an American male figure whose career spanned from 1957 to 2021. Born on November 19, 1933, and deceased on January 23, 2021, he operated under the pseudonym "Larry King." His professional activities included roles as an author and producer, with a reported net worth of 144000000. He was recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and Peabody Award collections.

As an author, King produced 46 works, including *Producer*, *Short Stories of Josephine County*, *Life and Times of Mczero*, *Tested*, and *My Remarkable Journey*. His musical and audio genres included audio drama, audiobook, fantasy, and German audio plays. He maintained a social media following of 2,492,737 and had 2,878 listeners on Last.fm, where his content was tagged with Radio, television, 90s, 80s, and OS GROUP.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
King
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Brooklyn
Place of death
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Occupation
writer
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Religion
Judaism
Award
Peabody Awards
Image
Larry King by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg
Residence
Beverly Hills
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net worth
144000000
date of birth
1933-11-19
name in native language
Larry King
start of work period
1957-00-00
medical condition
type 2 diabetes
social media followers
2331293
date of death
2021-01-23
end of work period
2021-00-00
birth name
Lawrence Harvey Zeiger
cause of death
sepsis
manner of death
natural causes
pseudonym
Larry King
writing language
English language
ethnic group
Jewish people
place of burial
Hillside Memorial Park
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Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American TV and radio host, author, and spokesman. He was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s. Beginning in 1978, King gained national prominence as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard over the Mutual Broadcasting System. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. King hosted Larry King Now from 2012 to 2020, which aired on Hulu, Ora TV, and RT America. He hosted Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show, on the same three channels from 2013 to 2020. King conducted over 50,000 interviews on radio and television.

King was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, to Jewish parents who immigrated to the United States from what is now Belarus in the 1920s. He studied at Lafayette High School, a public high school in Brooklyn.

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