12 Facts About Gene London

Eugene Norman Yulish, known as Gene London, was an American television personality and fashion designer.

Gene London was the creator and host of a long-running, local children's television program, Cartoon Corners.

Also known as The Gene London Show, the program aired on WCAU Channel 10 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1977, and had a broadcast reach throughout a significant portion of the Midatlantic region of the United States.

Gene London was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Isadore and Minna Yulish.

Gene London hosted the show from 1957 to mid-1958, when he was ousted from the program following a creative dispute with station management.

In reality, Quigley Mansion was merely just a model that created an establishing shot, but this artifice was so well done that the stories and plots about ghosts, UFOs and aliens that Gene London created for the haunted house segments became increasingly popular with his viewers.

That same summer, Gene London appeared before a large audience in the new community auditorium of the Boscov's department store in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

When Cartoon Corners was cancelled, Gene London moved to New York City and became involved in the fashion industry as a dress designer.

In later years, Gene London served as a Hollywood and Broadway fashion consultant and spokesman for the Mikimoto brand of jewelry.

On November 20,2009, Gene London was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia's Hall of Fame.

Gene London married his partner of 39 years, John Thomas, in 2016.

Gene London died on January 19,2020, in Reading, Pennsylvania, at age 88, after suffering a fall.