Geraldo Rivera

Age: 66
Height: 5' 9 1/2"

Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Born: Jul. 4th, 1943

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Geraldo Rivera's Main TV Roles

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

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TRIVIA:

Siblings are 'Craig Rivera' (qv), Sharon Rivera, and Irene Rivera Hunt. Cousin is Wilfredo Rivera, adopted by Geraldo's parents.
NBC executive 'Brandon Tartikoff' (qv) once said of him: "There are two words that serve as a signal that you're operating in an area of questionable taste. Those words are 'Geraldo Rivera.'"
Wife Erica Levy's mother is Nancy and father is Howard Levy, who was a prostate cancer survivor; but died recently.
(1991) Chosen by People magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" in the world.
His wife, Edie, was 'Kurt Vonnegut Jr.' (qv)'s daughter. His autobiography, written in 1991 is "Exposing Myself."
His fourth wife, C.C. Dyer, did not take his last name when they married.
He hosted the television segment that gave the American public the first chance of seeing the Zapruder film of the assassination of President 'John F. Kennedy' (qv).
Exposed deplorable conditions in "Willowbrook State School", an institution for people with developmental disabilities, in early 1972. Publicity from the class-action lawsuit against the state of New York that soon followed was a major contributing factor in the passing of a federal law called "Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act of 1980."

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