Regis Philbin
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1931-08-25
- Died
- 2020-07-24
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Cooking Rice with an Italian Accent!
- Chef Tell
- How I Got This Way CD
- How I got this way
- How I got this way
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Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
Regis Philbin (August 25, 1931 - July 24, 2020) was an American television presenter, talk show host, game show host, actor and singer.
Known for
- My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story — Self - Co-Host, 'Live with Regis and Kelly' (archive footage)2025
- Dean Martin: King of Cool — Self2021
- East Liverpool, Ohio: My Town — Narrator (voice)2020
- Always at The Carlyle — Self2018
- Game Changers — Self2018
- Single Parents — Regis Philbin2018
- Burden — Self (archive footage)2016
- Tony Bennett Celebrates 90 — Self2016
- The Odd Couple — Walter2015
- Fresh Off the Boat — Regis Philbin2015
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,764
- Total plays
- 10,993
Tags
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Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (born in The Bronx, NY on August 25, 1931; died in Greenwich, Connecticut on July 24, 2020) was an experienced American talk show host whose career has included stints as a game show host and all-purpose television personality. Appearing on television since at least the 1960s and confirmed by his Guinness World Record, he was consistently called (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) "the hardest working man in show business." Regis's nicknames include Reege (with spelling varia
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- FaceNet: A unified embedding for face recognition and clustering
· 2015 · cited 10,794x
- Recent Advances in Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
· 2016 · cited 3,738x
- Antibiotic resistance is ancient
· 2011 · cited 2,273x
- New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
· 2022 · cited 2,167x
- Object retrieval with large vocabularies and fast spatial matching
· 2007 · cited 2,144x
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Key facts
- Born
- Regis Francis Xavier Philbin , ( 1931-08-25 ) August 25, 1931, New York City , U.S.
- Died
- July 25, 2020 (2020-07-25) (aged 88), Greenwich, Connecticut , U.S.
- Burial place
- Cedar Grove Cemetery
- Education
- University of Notre Dame ( BA )
- Occupations
- Television presenter talk show host game show host actor singer
- Years active
- 1955–2020
- Notable credits
- Live with Regis and Kathie Lee (1988–2000) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1999–2002) Live! with Regis and Kelly (2001–2011)
- Spouses
- Catherine Faylen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1955 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1968 ) Joy Senese ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1970 )
- Children
- 4, including J.J.
- Branch
- United States Navy
- Service years
- 1953–1955
- Rank
Key dates
- Born
- 25 August 1931
- Died
- 24 July 2020
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Xavier
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Manhattan
- Place of death
- Greenwich
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Live with Kelly and Mark
Article
Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (/ˈriːdʒɪs ˈfɪlbɪn/ REE-jis; August 25, 1931 – July 25, 2020) was an American television presenter, comedian, actor, and singer. Once called "the hardest-working man in show business", he held the Guinness World Record for the most hours spent on US television.
Philbin was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame, he served in the US Navy and got his television start serving as a page for The Tonight Show in the 1950s. Philbin got his first network television exposure in 1967 as Joey Bishop's sidekick on The Joey Bishop Show. He is most widely known as the co-host of the New York City–based nationally syndicated talk show Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee, starting in 1988, which became Live! with Regis and Kelly in 2001, and continued as Live! with Kelly after Philbin's departure in 2011. He is also well known as the original host of the American version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, the most-watched prime-time series of the 1999–2000 US television season.
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