Regis Philbin, the indefatigable and downright neighborly host of talk shows and game shows who spent more time in front of a television camera than anyone else, has died. He was 88.
Regis Francis Philbin was born in Manhattan on Aug. 25, 1931, and raised in an Irish-Italian household in the Bronx. His father was a personnel director and his mother a housewife.
Six weeks into his career as a page, Philbin was surprised when Flanagan phoned, offering a position as a KCOP stagehand. He accepted and was promoted to news writer before leaving to work as a reporter at a small San Diego radio station. To get the nervous host to relax, Philbin would walk around Hollywood, where the show was taped, with Bishop every day.
, a three-hour morning show on L.A.'s KHJ-TV, with co-hosts including Lee; a program for a CBS affiliate in the Midwest called ; another morning show in Chicago; and a short-lived talk show for NBC that had replaced one that was fronted by Letterman.at KABC-TV with Purcell and then Garvey from 1975-83, and he returned to his hometown to reunite with Garvey on Live With Regis & Kathie Lee
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