Bob Barker, the consistently good-natured host of “The Price Is Right,” the longest-running game show in American television history, and one of the country’s best-known advocates for animal rights, died on Saturday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles.
His death was announced by a spokesman, Roger Neal.
Mr. Barker was a fixture of daytime television for half a century — first as the host of “Truth or Consequences,” from 1956 to 1974, and, most famously, starting in 1972, on “The Price Is Right.”He began his 35-year stint as host of “The New Price Is Right,” as it was then known, when it made its debut on CBS as a revised and jazzed-up version of the original “The Price Is Right,” which had been on the air from 1956 to 1965.
(The “New” was soon dropped from the name.)
He was also host of a weekly syndicated nighttime version from 1977 until it was canceled in 1980.
Persons:
Bob Barker, Roger Neal, Mr, Barker, ”
Organizations:
CBS
Locations:
Hollywood, Los Angeles