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Very cordial, down to earth guy. An entire generation of Americans haven't a clue as to who he was, and the entertaining role he played nationally for the better part of two decades.
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Moore, Garry (birth name was Thomas Garrison Morfit III)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland 1/31/1915; died 11/28/1993 of emphysema at his Hilton Head, South Carolina home. After attending Baltimore College, he became a writer and actor on WBAL- Baltimore (1935-1938).
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Moore joined NBC-Radio using his real name, featured on Club Matinee (1939-1942); Beat The Band (1940). A contest was run on Club Matinee that named him Garry Moore. Host of radio programs including Service With A Smile on NBC (1941); Breakfast At Sardi's (Breakfast In Hollywood) on ABC (1948-1949); Take It Or Leave It on NBC (1947-1950); The Garry Moore Show on CBS-Radio (1949-1950). Co-host with Jimmy Durante on The Camel Caravan for CBS-Radio (1943- 1947).
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Host of The Garry Moore Show on CBS (1950-1951, again 1958-1967); I've Got A Secret on CBS (1952-1964); syndicated series, To Tell The Truth (1969-1977). Emmy Award in 1962 for The Garry Moore Show.
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An unfairly forgotten talent whose career is usually dismissed as a parenthesis between "Jimmy Durante's straight man" and "the guy who discovered Carol Burnett." A real mensch as well, who flew to Winston-Salem, NC (in his own plane, he was a hobby pilot) to save Henry Morgan's job after Morgan made an unfortunate (but true) on-air wisecrack about cigarettes. As Morgan said, "What do you do with a friend like that?...and how could I have done without one??"
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