Douglas, Mike

Douglas, Mike
▪ 2007
Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr. 
      American television personality and singer (b. Aug. 11, 1925, Chicago, Ill.—d. Aug. 11, 2006, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), was the laid-back host of the daytime The Mike Douglas Show (1961–82), which featured musical acts, top celebrities of the day, and politicians, including seven U.S. presidents. Douglas's nonconfrontational interviewing style appealed to his more than 30,000 guests, and his warm, easygoing manner made him extremely popular with audiences. Before launching his television career, Douglas was a featured singer with Kay Kyser's big band, and he later scored a number of hit singles, notably “The Men in My Little Girl's Life” (1966). During the 1940s he appeared on TV, on the musical quiz show Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, and in 1953 he served as host of the radio program Hi, Ladies! Douglas's memoir, I'll Be Right Back: Memories of TV's Greatest Talk Show, was published in 1999.

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