Richard Wagstaff Clark was an American television and radio personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989.
31 Facts About Dick Clark
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Dick Clark founded the American Bandstand Diner, a restaurant chain modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe.
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Dick Clark later replaced Robert Earle as a newscaster.
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Dick Clark was responsible for a similar program on the company's radio station and served as a regular substitute host when Horn went on vacation.
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Dick Clark moved the show from Philadelphia to Los Angeles in 1964.
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Dick Clark was therefore considered to have a negative influence on youth and was well aware of that impression held by most adults:.
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Dick Clark was the biggest thing in America at that time.
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Dick Clark became a "primary force in legitimizing rock 'n' roll", adds Uslan.
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Dick Clark never spoke to Shalit again, and referred to him as a "jellyfish".
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Dick Clark became the first host of The $10,000 Pyramid, which premiered on CBS March 26,1973.
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Dick Clark subsequently returned to Pyramid as a guest in later incarnations.
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Dick Clark hosted the syndicated television game show The Challengers, during its only season.
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Dick Clark later hosted Scattergories on NBC in 1993; and The Family Channel's version of It Takes Two in 1997.
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Dick Clark concluded his game show hosting career with another of his productions, Challenge of the Child Geniuses, a series of two two-hour specials broadcast on Fox in May and November 2000.
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Dick Clark aimed to challenge the dominance of Guy Lombardo's New Year's specials on CBS, as he believed its big band music was too dated.
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Dick Clark served as a special correspondent for ABC News's ABC 2000 Today broadcast, covering the arrival of 2000.
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Dick Clark left Mutual in October 1985, and Bill St James took over the National Music Survey.
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Dick Clark appeared as a drag-racing-strip owner in a 1973 episode of the procedural drama series Adam-12.
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Dick Clark attempted to branch into the realm of soul music with the series Soul Unlimited in 1973.
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Dick Clark hosted various pageants from 1988 to 1993 on CBS.
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Dick Clark did a brief stint as announcer on The Jon Stewart Show in 1995.
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Dick Clark created and hosted two Fox television specials in 2000 called Challenge of the Child Geniuses, the last game show he hosted.
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Dick Clark produced the television series American Dreams about a Philadelphia family in the early 1960s whose daughter is a regular on American Bandstand.
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Dick Clark wrote, produced and starred in the 1968 film Killers Three, a Western drama that served as a promotional vehicle for Bakersfield country musicians Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens.
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Dick Clark appears in interview segments of a 2002 film, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which was based on the "unauthorized autobiography" of Chuck Barris.
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Dick Clark made brief cameos in two episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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Dick Clark was noteworthy for giving an award to Cyndi Lauper in WWF's The War to Settle the Score event that appeared on MTV with Hulk Hogan, Lou Albano, and Roddy Piper.
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Dick Clark remained active in television and movie production into the 1990s.
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Dick Clark married Loretta Martin in 1962; the couple had two children, Duane and Cindy, and divorced in 1971.
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Dick Clark returned to the series the following year, but the dysarthria that resulted from the stroke rendered him unable to speak clearly for the remainder of his life.
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Dick Clark reshaped the television landscape forever as a creative and innovative producer.