History

Bob Barker is in his 35th year as host of CBS's The Price is Right. Not only is it America's highest rated daytime game show, it is also the longest running game show in television history, surpassing What's My Line?, which ran for 18 seasons. He also serves as the show's executive producer.

Named the most popular game show host of all time in a national poll, Bob Barker received the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award for Daytime Television in 1999. Although Bob Barker has graced our television screens for more than four decades, his career continues at full throttle. "But," he hastens to add, "I was very young when I started."

Bob Barker made his motion picture debut in Universal Pictures' Happy Gilmore in which he appeared as himself with Adam Sandler. His real acting debut, however, came when he was asked to play Mel Harris' father in NBC's Something So Right. "It took 46 years from the time I first came to Hollywood for me to land a movie role," Barker said. "I hope I won't have to wait that long for the next offer."
Bob Barker has established the DJ&T Foundation, the purpose of which is to help control the dog and cat population. He is funding the foundation through his own resources to support low-cost or free sprat/neuter clinics. According to Barker, over population is one of our most tragic animal problems. The foundation is named in memory of his wife Dorothy Jo and his mother Matilda (Tilly) Valandra, both of whom loved all animals.

Bob Barker's work on behalf of animals has garnered him a long list of awards from prestigious humane organizations across the country. In fact, a columnist wrote that Barker has become a part-time television host and a full-time animal rights activist. But Bob Barker assures us that there is room in his busy life for both television and animals.

Bob Barker announced that he will retire in June 2007.

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Previous Announcers For The Price Is Right

Johnny Olsen

Rod Roddy

Rich Fields