Larry King was an American television and radio host who won two Peabody Awards, an Emmy, and 10 Cable ACE Awards. He was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on November 19, 1933. He hosted nearly 50,000 interviews during his tenure.
In the 1950s and 1960s, King worked as a radio interviewer for WMBM in the Miami region, and in 1978, he became famous as the host of The Larry King Show, a 24-hour nationwide call-in radio show broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System. From 1985 through 2010, he was the host of CNN’s nightly interview show Larry King Live.
From 2012 through 2020, King hosted Larry King Now, which broadcast on Hulu, Ora TV, and RT America. From 2013 to 2020, he presented Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political chat show on the same three channels. King appeared in a number of television shows and films, generally in the role of himself.
King was born in the borough of Brooklyn. Jennie (Gitlitz), a textile worker born in Minsk, Russian Empire, and Aaron Zeiger, a restaurant owner and defense-plant worker born in Pinsk, Russian Empire, had two children. His parents were Orthodox Jews from Belarus who came to the United States in the 1930s.
On January 2, 2021, it was disclosed that King had been admitted to a Los Angeles hospital ten days prior with COVID-19. King’s widow, Shawn Southwick-King, told Entertainment Tonight that he recovered from COVID-19 but died of sepsis as a consequence on January 23, 2021, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, at the age of 87.
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