Bob Barker hosted CBS' 'The Price is Right' for 35 years.
Bob Barker, who hosted"The Price Is Right" for 35 years, has died, his representative, Roger Neal, told CBS News on Saturday. He was 99.Barker appeared on national television for over 50 years. Before his time at the country's longest-running game show on CBS, he hosted one of the nation's first televised game shows,"Truth or Consequences," for nearly 20 years, earning him recognition in the Guinness World Records book as television's"most durable performer.
During his career, Barker was honored with 19 Emmy Awards, 14 as host of"The Price Is Right," four as the show's executive producer and a lifetime achievement award. In 2004, Barker was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. . Their first date was on Nov. 17, 1939, when he took her to see an Ella Fitzgerald concert. Barker said they"were never separated from then on" – until her death in 1981 from lung cancer.
Outside of his storied television career, Barker was a renowned animal activist who once testified before Congress in support of a federal ban against using elephants in traveling shows and for rides.
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