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Phil Donahue
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American media personality, writer and film producer (1935–2024)
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Phil Donahue was an American film producer, television presenter, journalist and film director, born on 21 December 1935 in Cleveland. He was educated at the University of Notre Dame, and his career ran from 1957 to 2024. His spouse was Marlo Thomas, and he practiced Catholicism.
Donahue received the Peabody Award, the Golden Apple Award, recognition at the Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and is recognised in the Peabody Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom collections. His notable work was The Phil Donahue Show, and he had five children. He lived in Manhattan and Cleveland, and died on 18 August 2024 in the Upper East Side.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 9
Top works
- Human Animal
- DONAHUE
- Tomas Young's War
- What Makes a Marriage Last Lib/E
- My own story Donahue
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Film & TV
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Phillip John Donahue (December 21, 1935 – August 18, 2024) was an American media personality, writer, film producer and the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, later known simply as Donahue, was the first talk show format that included audience participation. The show had a 29-year run on national television in America that began in Dayton, Ohio in 1967 and ended in…
Known for
- BRATS — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2024
- Bella! — Self2023
- South to Black Power — Self2023
- Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields — Self (archive footage)2023
- Tamron Hall — Self - Guest2019
- The Billboard Boys — Self (archive footage)2016
- The Swap — Self (voice)2016
- Unity — Narrator (voice)2015
- Traficant: The Congressman of Crimetown — Self2015
- The Making of Trump — Self (archive footage)2015
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cleveland
- Place of death
- Upper East Side
- Spouse
- Marlo Thomas
- Occupation
- journalist
- Educated at
- University of Notre Dame
- Languages spoken
- American English
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Notable work
- The Phil Donahue Show
- Eye colour
- green
- Hair colour
- grey hair
- Image
- Phil Donahue at the Toronto International Film Festival.jpg
- Number of children
- 5
- Residence
- Cleveland
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- date of birth
- 1935-12-21
- Commons category
- Phil Donahue
- Commons Creator page
- Phil Donahue
- name in native language
- Phil Donahue
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
- floruit
- 1980-01-01
- date of death
- 2024-08-18
- social media followers
- 3831
- end of work period
- 2024-00-00
- pseudonym
- Phil Donahue
- birth name
- Phillip John Donahue
- sexual orientation
- heterosexuality
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