 Talk show host, singer Mike Douglas dead at 81
Talk show host, singer Mike Douglas dead at 81
Veteran television personality Mike Douglas, whose daytime talk show ran for two decades until 1982, died on Friday, his 81st birthday, at a hospital in North Palm Beach, Florida, a business associate said.
The associate, Bob Patterson, said he had no further details about the circumstances of the entertainer's death.
Douglas, who began his career as a singer and performed with bandleader Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, also was the singing voice of Prince Charming in the animated Disney film "Cinderella."
"The Mike Douglas Show" debuted in 1961 as a local program in Cleveland and was soon syndicated nationally, moving first to Philadelphia and later to Burbank, California, and was the top-rated daytime talk show for most of its run.
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