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    Charles Hirsch Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017) was an American game show creator, producer, and host. Barris was known for hosting The Gong Show...
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  • The Dating Game (category Television series created by Chuck Barris)
    December 20, 1965, and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s. ABC dropped the show on July 6, 1973...
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  • and producer Chuck Barris. The film was George Clooney's directorial debut, was written by Charlie Kaufman and starred Sam Rockwell as Barris, as well as...
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  • Barris Industries, Inc. was an American game show production company that was founded by Chuck Barris. Barris founded his company on June 14, 1965 as...
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  • The Gong Show (category Television series by Barris Industries)
    for broadcast on ABC. The show was created and originally produced by Chuck Barris, who also served as host for the NBC run and from 1977 to 1980 in syndication...
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  • directed by Chuck Barris, host and creator of the game show of the same name. The film shows a fictional week in the life of Chuck Barris as the host...
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    Stewart and Wink Martindale, and during that time, she appeared on another Chuck Barris show, The Dating Game. In 1969, Valentine played Gidget in the 1969 film...
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  • The Newlywed Game (category Television series by Barris Industries)
    (because Chuck Barris was an ABC employee at the time), and he performed the B-side of the record instead. Not wanting the song to go to waste, Barris commissioned...
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    won the then-biggest leading role of his career as The Gong Show host Chuck Barris in George Clooney's directorial debut, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind...
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  • would warm up and entertain the audience during commercial breaks. Host Chuck Barris found him so entertaining that he had him dance on the show on-air, and...
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  • Treasure Hunt (American game show) (category Television series by Barris Industries)
    theme, closing theme, and klunk music cues were composed by Chuck Barris himself. Though Barris was an accomplished songwriter, the melodic closing theme...
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  • the truth. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was based on game show host Chuck Barris' widely debunked yet popular memoir of the same name, in which he claimed...
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    Beauty Show, both of which, like The Dating Game, were produced by Chuck Barris. (Barris hosted The Gong Show; Rip Taylor hosted The $1.98 Beauty Show; and...
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  • Palisades Park (Freddy Cannon song) (category Songs written by Chuck Barris)
    "Palisades Park" is a song written by Chuck Barris and recorded by Freddy Cannon. Barris wrote a song about an amusement park and it was suggested he use...
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  • The $1.98 Beauty Show (category Television series created by Chuck Barris)
    male dressed in drag) competing for the title of "$1.98 Beauty Queen". Chuck Barris created the series and was executive producer. Johnny Jacobs was the...
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    Braceface, which he continued until 2004. In 2002, Cera played the young Chuck Barris (played by Sam Rockwell) in the George Clooney-directed film Confessions...
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  • Barris is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alex Barris (1922–2004), American-born Canadian television actor and writer Chuck Barris...
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    Theatre In Trance – Rainer Werner Fassbinder No Holds Barre 1982 Forbidden Zone 1979 Dress Rehearsal-Werner Schroeter 1977 & 1978 Chuck Barris Rah-Rah Show...
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  • – February 8, 1982) was an American television announcer, often for Chuck Barris productions—namely, The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game. He was born...
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  • Merit for Outstanding Achievement for Oh God Book II[citation needed] Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show (TV) (1978) as Louanne The Long Days of Summer (1980) (TV)...
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    of a Dangerous Mind, a 2003 semi-biographical film about the life of Chuck Barris, creator of The Gong Show, The Dating Game, and The Newlywed Game. She...
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    ventured into being a Hollywood extra, as well as a repeat contestant on Chuck Barris' ABC daytime show The Dating Game. Before his film career began, Negron...
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  • death. DeVore began his writing career in the late 1960s on shows like Chuck Barris' The Newlywed Game, The Steve Allen Show, and Tempo. DeVore married the...
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  • September 2007, ISBN 978-1-60239-132-1). Fictional notable examples include Chuck Barris, who made a satirical claim to have been a NOC with 33 kills in his book...
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  • Three's a Crowd (game show) (category Television series created by Chuck Barris)
    American television game show. It was created by Chuck Barris and originally packaged by Chuck Barris Productions. The first version aired in syndication...
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  • Critic. January 12, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2013. "GSN Airs 'The Chuck Barris Story: My Life on the Edge' December 10". The Futon Critic. November...
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    reprised some of his old hits on the NBC prime-time variety program The Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show.[citation needed] By the early 1980s Gaillard was touring...
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  • Chuck Alaimo Quartet Chuck Barris (1929–2017), American TV producer Chuck Berry (1926–2017), American rock and roll musician Chuck Brown (1936–2012), American...
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    Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on the autobiography of TV producer Chuck Barris. The film premiered out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival to...
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  • appears in the film Office Space. Chuck Barris and the Hollywood Cowboys performed a modified version of the piece as Barris's swan song when The Gong Show...
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