12 Facts About Ralph Edwards

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Ralph Livingstone Edwards was an American radio and television host, radio producer, and television producer, best known for his radio-TV game shows Truth or Consequences and reality documentary series This Is Your Life.

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Ralph Edwards perfected a chuckling delivery, sounding as though he was in the midst of telling a very funny story.

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Ralph Edwards was the second host of the NBC radio children's talent show The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour.

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Ralph Edwards appeared in a few films, including Radio Stars On Parade with the comedy team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney, and I'll Cry Tomorrow with Susan Hayward.

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Ralph Edwards was showman enough to draw upon his Truth or Consequences experience, emphasizing the sentimental elements that appealed to viewers and listeners at home.

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Ralph Edwards appeared in a McGruff the Crime Dog PSA where McGruff himself was the subject, featuring clips from past PSAs.

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Ralph Edwards produced dozens of game shows, including About Faces, Knockout, Place the Face, It Could Be You, Name That Tune and The Cross-Wits.

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Ralph Edwards had a notable acting role, his character a jovial and decreasingly skeptical radio dj, in the episode of the CBS Radio series Suspense "Ghost Hunt" in 1949.

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Ralph Edwards furthered the career of another game show host, his protege Bob Barker.

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Ralph Edwards died of heart failure on November 16,2005, in Los Angeles, California at the age of 92.

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In 2004, Ralph Edwards' son accepted the first of these awards on behalf of his father.

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Ralph Edwards was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.