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Art LinkletterAdd to My CelebsAge 99 Birthday Jul. 17th, 1912 Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada Height |
Art Linkletter's Main TV Roles
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Main Movie Roles1993 - Matinee1950 - Champagne For Caesar 1946 - People Are Funny |
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB
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TRIVIA:
- Friend 'Walt Disney' (qv) could only afford to pay Linkletter scale to help host the Disneyland grand opening special _Dateline: Disneyland (1955) (TV)_ (qv); in return, Linkletter asked for and received the park's camera and film concessions for 10 years.
- Son 'Robert Linkletter' (qv), 34, was killed in a car accident. A woman was later sentenced on January 17, 1981, to a year's probation on her plea of no contest to vehicular manslaughter.
- Father of 'Jack Linkletter' (qv) and 'Diane Linkletter' (qv).
- Children: 'Jack Linkletter' (qv) (Arthur), Dawn, 'Robert Linkletter' (qv), Sharon, and 'Diane Linkletter' (qv). He was a good friend of 'Walt Disney' (qv). It might be coincidence, but Disney's children, who arrived first, were also named Sharon and Diane.
- Shares his birthday (July 17th) with Disneyland, where he hosted the grand opening in 1955 and returned 50 years later to help host the celebration on July 17th 2005, and is the only celebrity to appear at Disneyland publicly both of those days.
- His lecture tour is entitled "Old Age Is Not for Sissies", which is also the title of his 23rd book.
- Only person in TV history to have five shows concurrently on network TV.
- Only three months before daughter 'Diane Linkletter' (qv)'s fatal leap from her apartment high-rise on October 4, 1969, Art's oldest daughter Dawn's husband, John Zweyer, 33, committed suicide by a gunshot to the head over his failing insurance business on July 15th.
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