Larry King

Acting•Born November 19, 1933•Died January 23, 2021 (age 87)•Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American television host, radio host, and paid spokesman, whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys, an Emmy award, and 10 Cable ACE Awards. King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s, and gained prominence beginning in 1978 as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. From 2012 until 2020, he hosted Larry King Now on Hulu and RT America. He continued to host Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show which has aired weekly on the same two channels from 2013 until his death.

Known For

Filmography

2025

Naked Ambition

as Self

Movie

2025

John Candy: I Like Me

as Self - Host, Larry King Live (archive footage)

Movie

2025

The People vs. Michael Jackson

as Self

Movie

2024

I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2024

Bad Hostage

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2023

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

as Self (archive footage)

2022

Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2021

The Real Hunt for Red October

as Self (Archive Footage)

2020

First Ladies

as Self (archive footage)

2020

The New York Times Presents

as Self (archive footage)

2020

My Darling Vivian

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2020

Hopelessly in Love: Anna Nicole Smith and Larry Birkhead

Movie

2020

Dying to be Frozen

as Self

Movie

2019

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2019

Where's My Roy Cohn?

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2019

Mike Wallace Is Here

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2019

Debbie & Doug Drop Acid in the Desert

as Fear

Movie

2018

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky

as Self

Movie

2018

Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars

as Self

Movie

2018

Dirty Money

as Self (archive footage)

2017

The Menendez Murders: Erik Tells All

as Self

2017

Trump: An American Dream

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2017

American Satan

as Self

Movie

2017

Lundon's Bridge and the Three Keys

as King Pom

Movie

2017

Lundon's Bridge and the Three Keys

as Wart

Movie

2017

Only the Dead Know the Brooklyn Americans

as Narrator

Movie

2016

The Remake

as Self

Movie

2016

Shadow World

as Self - Journalist (archive footage)

Movie

2016

Chelsea

as Self

2016

Burzynski: The Cancer Cure Cover-Up

as himself

Movie

2016

Join or Die with Craig Ferguson

2016

American Crime Story

as Himself

2015

Chasing Tyson

as Self

Movie

2015

Dude Bro Party Massacre III

as Coach Handsey

Movie

2015

Chloe and Theo

as Himself

Movie

2015

Deli Man

as Self

Movie

2015

The 10 Faces of Michael Jackson

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2014

Nelson Mandela Redrawn

as Self

Movie

2014

Mystical Traveler: The Life and Times of Dr. John-Roger

as Self

Movie

2014

I Am Divine

as Self (archive)

Movie

2014

The Joe Show

as Self

Movie

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self

2014

Drew Peterson: Untouchable

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2014

The State of Arizona

as Self (archival footage)

Movie

2014

The Price of Gold

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2013

The Armstrong Lie

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2013

Glickman

as Self

Movie

2013

Anna Nicole

as Himself (uncredited / archivefootage)

Movie

2013

Larry King Now

as Himself - Host

2013

Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2013

The '80s: The Decade That Made Us

as Self - Host: Larry King Now

2013

Norm Macdonald Live

as Self

2013

The Power of Few

as Larry King

Movie

2012

1600 Penn

as Larry King

2012

Pauly Shore's Pauly-tics

as Self

Movie

2012

Top Priority: The Terror Within

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2012

Gravity Falls

as Wax Larry King (voice)

2012

Decoding Deepak

as Self

Movie

2012

Good Mythical Morning

as Self

2011

Ridiculousness

as Self

2011

Gloria: In Her Own Words

as Self

Movie

2011

Julian Assange: A Modern Day Hero?

as Self

Movie

2011

Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump

as Self

Movie

2010

Take Two with Phineas and Ferb

as Self

2010

The Fran Drescher Show

2010

Conan

2010

Conan

as Self

2010

Better With You

as Self

2010

The House of Steinbrenner

as Self

Movie

2010

History of the Miami Dolphins

as Self

Movie

2010

Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story

as Self

Movie

2010

Shrek Forever After

as Doris (voice)

Movie

2010

Sex, Drugs & Religion

as Self

Movie

2009

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest

2009

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2008

Dominick Dunne: After the Party

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2008

Swing Vote

as Larry King

Movie

2008

Xaviera Hollander, the Happy Hooker: Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary

as Himself

Movie

2007

Bee Movie

as Bee Larry King (voice)

Movie

2007

Jimmy Carter Man from Plains

as Self

Movie

2007

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

as Self

Movie

2007

Shrek the Third

as Doris (voice)

Movie

2007

Brando

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2007

Chasing October

as Self

Movie

2006

30 Rock

as Larry King

2006

...So Goes the Nation

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2006

Ugly Betty

as Larry King

2006

Shark

as Larry King

2006

Future by Design

as Himself

Movie

2006

The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency

2006

Big Love

as Larry King

2006

Steve Irwin: He Changed Our World

as Self

Movie

2005

Breaking Point: Canada/Quebec - The 1995 Referendum

as Himself

Movie

2005

The Colbert Report

2005

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

as Self

2005

Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List

as Self

2005

The Last Mogul

Movie

2005

The Closer

as Larry King

2005

Fat Actress

as Larry King

2005

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

as Larry King

2005

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

as Self

2004

Marilyn's Man

as Self

Movie

2004

Catching Kringle

as Larry King

Movie

2004

Far Far Away Idol

as Ugly Stepsister (voice)

Movie

2004

Boston Legal

as Larry King

2004

Clubhouse

2004

The Tony Danza Show

as Self

2004

The Soup

as Self

2004

Fahrenheit 9/11

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2004

Mr. 3000

as Self

Movie

2004

The Stepford Wives

as Self

Movie

2004

Shrek 2

as Ugly Stepsister (voice)

Movie

2003

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

as Self

2003

Anderson Cooper 360°

2003

Comedy Central Roasts

as Self

2003

Real Time with Bill Maher

as Self

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

2002

Cleavage

Movie

2002

John Q

as Larry King

Movie

2002

Lewis Black: Taxed Beyond Belief

as Self

Movie

2001

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Self

2001

America's Sweethearts

as Self

Movie

2001

Shot Heard 'Round the World

as Himself - Dodger Fan

Movie

2000

The Contender

as Larry King

Movie

2000

The Kid

as Larry King

Movie

1999

Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club

as Self

Movie

1999

Sam Kinison: Why Did We Laugh?

as Self

Movie

1998

Enemy of the State

as Larry King

Movie

1998

Bulworth

as Larry King

Movie

1998

Primary Colors

as Himself

Movie

1998

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

as Self

Movie

1998

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

as Self

1997

The Jackal

as Himself

Movie

1997

Mad City

as Larry King (uncredited)

Movie

1997

The View

as Self

1997

Contact

as Larry King

Movie

1997

Perfect Moment

as Self

Movie

1997

The Practice

as Larry King

1997

Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery

as Self

Movie

1996

The Long Kiss Goodnight

as Self

Movie

1996

Arthur

as Larry King

1996

Spin City

as Larry King

1996

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

Arli$$

as Larry King

1996

The Daily Show

as Self

1996

Muppets Tonight

as Self

1995

Spin

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

1995

Open Season

as Larry King

Movie

1994

UFO Cover-Up Live with Larry King

as Self

Movie

1993

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

as Himself (voice)

Movie

1993

Frasier

as Larry King

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self (archive footage)

1993

Dave

as Larry King

Movie

1992

The Larry Sanders Show

as Larry King

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1990

The Exorcist III

as Larry King

Movie

1990

Crazy People

as Larry King

Movie

1989

The Simpsons

as Larry King (voice)

1989

Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!

as TV Talk Show Host

Movie

1989

Coach

as Larry King

1988

Murphy Brown

as Larry King

1988

Jackie Robinson: An American Journey

as On Screen Narrator (voice)

Movie

1988

Richard Lewis: I'm Exhausted

as Self

Movie

1985

Larry King Live

as Self - Host

1985

Lost in America

as Larry King (voice) (uncredited)

Movie

1984

Ghostbusters

as Larry King

Movie

1982

Late Night with David Letterman

as Self - Guest

1979

CBS News Sunday Morning

as Self

1979

CBS News Sunday Morning

as Self (archive footage)

1971

Primus

1961

Miami Undercover

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Bring Back... Dallas

as Self

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing

BirthdayNovember 19, 1933

Day of DeathJanuary 23, 2021

Place of BirthBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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