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People named Ralph Edwards

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Ralph S Edwards of Dayton, Montgomery County, OH was born on October 26, 1905, and died at age 88 years old on June 2, 1994.
Ralph Edwards of Middlesex, Nash County, North Carolina was born on March 26, 1919, and died at age 64 years old in September 1983.
Ralph L Edwards of High Point, Guilford County, NC was born on February 22, 1927, and died at age 66 years old in June 1993.
Ralph F Edwards of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina was born on January 23, 1907, and died at age 67 years old in December 1974.
Ralph J Edwards of Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina was born on April 24, 1910, and died at age 64 years old in September 1974.
Ralph L Edwards of Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia was born on October 17, 1906, and died at age 64 years old in September 1971.
Ralph C Edwards of Cowen, Webster County, West Virginia was born on August 23, 1919, and died at age 61 years old in June 1981.
Ralph G Edwards of Galax, Galax City County, VA was born on September 24, 1917, and died at age 83 years old on October 22, 2000.
Ralph R Edwards of Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania was born on January 14, 1924, and died at age 62 years old in March 1986.
Ralph B Edwards of Newark, New Castle County, DE was born on January 2, 1922, and died at age 81 years old on July 11, 2003. Ralph Edwards was buried at Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery Section J Row M Site 16 2465 Chesapeake Road, in Bear.
Ralph T Edwards of Hernando, Citrus County, FL was born on September 29, 1922, and died at age 85 years old on August 13, 2008. Ralph Edwards was buried at Florida National Cemetery Section 2E Row 1B Site 2 6502 Sw. 102nd Ave., in Bushnell.
Ralph W Edwards of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on December 19, 1925, and died at age 67 years old on February 1, 1993. Ralph Edwards was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 68 Site 1643 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.
Ralph I Edwards of Downsville, Delaware County, NY was born on August 16, 1901, and died at age 73 years old in May 1975.
Ralph N Edwards of Victor, Ontario County, NY was born on January 7, 1919, and died at age 66 years old in March 1985.
Ralph G Edwards of Ogdensburg, Saint Lawrence County, NY was born on August 20, 1920, and died at age 86 years old on November 23, 2006.
Ralph Edwards of Bronx, Bronx County, NY was born on April 8, 1921, and died at age 65 years old in February 1987.
Ralph A Edwards of Brazoria County, TX was born circa 1952. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ralph A. Edwards.
Ralph Vernon Edwards of Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ralph Vernon Edwards.
Ralph Vernon Edwards of Mornington Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ralph Vernon Edwards.
Ralph Murray Edwards of Charlton Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ralph Murray Edwards.
Ralph Arthur William Edwards of Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ralph Arthur William Edwards.
Ralph Murray Edwards of Gard Australia was born in 1897 in Charlton, and died at age 59 years old in 1956 in Gard.
Ralph Alfred Edwards of Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ralph Alfred Edwards.
Ralph Arthur Edwards of Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ralph Arthur Edwards.
Ralph Valentine Edwards of Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ralph Valentine Edwards.
Ralph Francis Edwards of Brighton Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ralph Francis Edwards.
Ralph Ottiwill Edwards of Malvern Australia was born in 1886 in Malvern, and died at age 3 years old in 1889 in Malvern.
Ralph Livingstone Edwards
Ralph Livingstone Edwards (June 13, 1913 – November 16, 2005) was an American radio and television host, radio producer, and television producer, best known for his radio-TV game shows Truth or Consequences and This Is Your Life. Born in Merino, Colorado, Edwards worked for KROW Radio in Oakland, California while he was still in high school After graduating from high school in 1931, he worked his way through college at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a B.A. in English in 1935. While there, he worked at every job from janitor to producer at Oakland's KTAB, now KSFO. Failing to get a job as a high school teacher, he worked at KFRC and then hitchhiked across the country to New York City, where, he said, "I ate ten-cent (equivalent to $2 in 2018), meals and slept on park benches". After some part-time announcing jobs, he got his big break in 1938 with a full-time job for the Columbia Broadcasting System on the original WABC (now WCBS), where he worked with two other young announcers who would become broadcasting fixtures - Mel Allen and Andre Baruch. The young director had an assured, professional manner, and in a few years he was well established as a nationally famous announcer. It was Edwards who introduced Major Bowes every week on the Original Amateur Hour and Fred Allenon Town Hall Tonight. Edwards perfected a chuckling delivery, sounding as though he was in the midst of telling a very funny story. This "laugh in the voice" technique served him well when 20th Century Fox hired him to narrate the coming-attractions trailers for Laurel and Hardy movies.[citation needed] Edwards was the second host of the NBC radio children's talent show The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour. He appeared in a few films, including Radio Stars On Parade with the comedy team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney, and I'll Cry Tomorrow with Susan Hayward. Truth or Consequences started out as a radio game show that premiered on NBC Radio in March 1940, and aired for 38 years on radio and television. After a ridiculously difficult trivia question was asked, and Beulah the Buzzer went off when they inevitably failed to answer, contestants were asked to perform often ridiculous stunts for prizes of cash or merchandise. From the start contestants preferred to miss the question, with Edwards commenting "Most of the American people are darned good sports." After years of experimental broadcasts, the Federal Communications Commission approved commercial televisionbroadcasts starting on July 1, 1941, and NBC's New York station WNBT (later WNBC) was the first to make the changeover, with Edwards hosting a one-time episode of the show over WNBT to commemorate the first day of commercial telecasting. The show was originally based in New York, with Allen as announcer, but later moved to Los Angeles. After the U.S. entered World War II in late 1941, causing early television broadcasts to be cut back dramatically, its radio run started on CBS, Edwards' and Allen's home network, then moved to NBC. Occasionally the show played for sentiment, as contestants were surprised on stage by a sweetheart in the military, a family member, or a long-lost friend. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico was named after the show following Edwards' promise to broadcast the show from the first city that renamed itself. The city in southern New Mexico features several public parks and facilities that bear his name. Beginning in 1950 and continuing for the next 50 years, Edwards traveled to that city during the first weekend of May every year. Edwards and the Truth or Consequences radio show were featured in a Superman story in Action Comics #127 (December 1948). In 1948 Edwards created, produced, and hosted This Is Your Life on NBC Radio, moving to NBC-TV in 1952-1961. Each week Edwards would surprise some unsuspecting person (usually a celebrity, sometimes an ordinary citizen) and review the subject's personal and professional life in front of the TV audience, often introducing figures from their past as live guests. The show drew great interest from viewers, partly because the identity of the subject wasn't revealed until the show went live. Throughout the half-hour Edwards would guide the narrative of the show, ushering visitors on and off stage, and eventually prompting the honoree to recall a personal turning point. Edwards was showman enough to draw upon his Truth or Consequences experience, emphasizing the sentimental elements that appealed to viewers and listeners at home. His on-air tributes would often recount some heroic sacrifice or tragic event, bringing the audience (and sometimes the subject) to the point of tears. Celebrity subjects included Marilyn Monroe, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bob Hope, Andy Griffith, Buster Keaton, Barbara Eden, Bette Davis, Shirley Jones, Jayne Mansfield, and Carol Channing. Edwards famously surprised Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane when she was the subject of "This Is Your Life" in a story published in the D.C. Comic "Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane" #9, May 1959. Edwards produced dozens of game shows, including About Faces, Knockout, Place the Face, It Could Be You, Name That Tune (1970s version) and The Cross-Wits.[7] In 1981, with Stu Billett, he executive-produced The People's Court, the first program of its type. In 1996, along with Stu Billett, they also did Bzzz!. He had a notable acting role, his character a jovial and decreasingly skeptical radio dj, in the episode of the CBS Radio series Suspense "Ghost Hunt" (based on H. Russell Wakefield's story from the 25th anniversary issue of Weird Tales) in 1949. On November 16, 2005 Edwards died of heart failure in Los Angeles, California. Shortly before his death he released a selection of his This Is Your Life programs on DVD. The Game Show Congress annually presents the Ralph Edwards Service Award, for those within the game show community who have worked tirelessly for charitable causes. In 2004, Edwards' son, Gary, accepted the first of these awards on behalf of his fatherFor his contribution to the radio and television industries, Ralph Edwards has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Famelocated at 6116 Hollywood Boulevard (radio) and 6262 Hollywood Boulevard (television). Both were dedicated February 8, 1960. Edwards was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.
Ralph Edwards of Multnomah County, Oregon United States was born circa 1913. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ralph W. Edwards.
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