Jack Linkletter was born on November 20, 1937 in San Francisco, California, USA as Jr. Arthur John Linkletter. He was an actor, known for Here's Hollywood (1960), Hootenanny (1963) and America Alive! (1978). He was married to Charlene Just Croul and Barbara Mae Hughes. He died on December 18, 2007 in Cloverdale, California.
Oldest of the five children of Art Linkletter. He was said to have been inspired to enter show business by his famous father's show, The Linkletter Show (1952). He died at age 70 with both parents outliving him.
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Hosted seven television shows throughout his career, including Hootenanny (1963), Here's Hollywood (1960) and America Alive! (1978). He also hosted a number of well-known special events and pageants, including the Miss Universe Pageant (1965), events for the World's Fair and many parades.
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At 15, he began doing an interview show for CBS Radio, which was soon followed by an hour-long program called Teen Time, that featured records and stunts.
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Linkletter was an English major at the University of Southern California in 1958 when he began hosting the NBC-TV prime-time summer-replacement quiz show Haggis Baggis (1958).
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Hosted "On the Go," a daytime human-interest show in which he and a video crew visited various locales for behind-the-scenes stories.
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As a boy, Jack provided the inspiration for his father's most famous The Linkletter Show (1952) routines: interviewing young children. Art got such a kick one day after asking Jack how his first day of kindergarten went that he played his interview with Jack on his "Who's Dancing Tonight?" Sunday-night interview show in San Francisco. Once "House Party" began, Art started interviewing four children between the ages of 4 and 10 during the last five minutes of each show, about 27,000 children over the years.
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Youngest of the five children, sister Diane Linkletter, leaped to her death from a high-rise apartment window in 1969 at age 20. Her death was widely reported in the media at the time, and her father blamed her death on LSD. There is, however, no proof that Diane took LSD on the day she died. All available evidence suggests that she was a despondent woman and that her death was a suicide rather than a drug-related accident. Nevertheless, shortly thereafter, Art Linkletter became a prominent anti-drug campaigner.
Graduate of the University of Southern California with a degree in English.
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After television career ended, went into business, serving as president of Linkletter Enterprises, a developer of commercial and industrial real estate. Also operated a private investment fund and was a motivational speaker.
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Owned a firm which developed and operated commercial and industrial real estate.
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