Basic Information About Jim Lange
| Category | Celebrities › DJs |
|---|---|
| Professions | Presenter, Disc jockey, Radio personality, Actor |
| Net worth | $5,000,000 |
| Date of birth | 1932-08-15 (92 years old) |
| Place of birth | Saint Paul |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Curiosities and Trademarks | Closes the show with a different catchphrase. His glasses. At the end of every The Dating Game (1965) episode, he was blowing a kiss to the audience. |
| Gender | Male |
| Social Media | ↗︎ Wikipedia ↗︎ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Jim Lange win?
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 Golden Globe |
 Golder Raspberry |
 BAFTA |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jim Lange roles
| Movie / Series | Role |
|---|---|
| Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | Self |
| Bewitched | Jim the M.C. 1 episode, 1971 |
| The Dating Game | Self - Host 127 episodes, 1965-1986 |
| Amazing Stories | Jim Lange 1 episode, 1985 |
| Moesha | Self 1 episode, 1998 |
| Laverne & Shirley | Jim Lange 1 episode, 1980 |
Jim Lange's Quotes
- [commenting on why he enjoyed doing radio more than television] You don't have to worry about lighting directors and cameramen or script writers and all that. Good radio is still the most fun. It always will be. Plus, you don't have to wear makeup and you don't have to shave.
Interesting Facts about Jim Lange
- Afternoon Drive Disk Jockey/Personality - KSFO Radio San Francisco, California (1960s thru 1970s)
- Jim Lange's career as a disc jockey continued through the decades. He was a deejay before, during, and after his The Dating Game (1965) stint; and was one of the most popular DJs in the San Francisco Bay Area before retiring in 2005.
- Wife, Nancy Fleming, was Miss America 1961.
- Was the morning DJ at KABL FM 92.1 in the San Francisco Bay area. [April 2005]
- Jim Lange died on February 25, 2014, at age 81, 4 months later, radio disc jockey Casey Kasem, passed away in the same year, but was the age ahead of Lange. Kasem appeared on an episode of Lange's The Dating Game (1965), as a bachelor.
- Long lives ran in his family.
- Graduated from St. Thomas Academy High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1950.
- Hosted The New Newlywed Game (1984) once on Valentine's Day, for ABC.
- Before he was a successful game show host, he worked a midday fixture on Gene Autry's flagship KMPC, when he chose to return to Frisco radio in Los Angeles, California.
- Before he was a successful game show host, he worked in the visitors' clubhouse at old Lexington Park, home of an earlier incarnation of the St. Paul Saints.
- Friends with: Bob Barker, Bob Goen, Bill Cullen, Wink Martindale, Geoff Edwards, Dick Clark, Bob Eubanks, Alex Trebek, Chuck Barris, Jack Barry, Jim Perry, Chuck Woolery, Marc Summers, Peter Tomarken, Pat Sajak, Richard Dawson, Tom Kennedy and Monty Hall.
- Met fellow game show host, Wink Martindale, while working in the Chuck Barris Studios, in Los Angeles, California, prior to becoming a game show host in 1967. Among the staff were: Bob Eubanks and Bob Barker.
- Before he was a successful game show host, he made his Bay Area radio debut as 'The All-Night Mayor,' on KGO Radio, in San Francisco, California.
- Hobbies were traveling, listening to music and golfing.
- Was physically healthy and physically active until his death at age 81.
- Jim Lange passed away on February 25, 2014, just one week before fellow game show host, Geoff Edwards passed away.
- During his 2 season run on $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime (1986), Lange had 9 married couples, who won the grand prize of $1 million dollars.
- Hosted game shows that involved music: $100,000 Name That Tune (1984) and Triple Threat (1988).
- Met fellow game show host, Geoff Edwards, also at the Chuck Barris Studios in Los Angeles, California, in 1973. At that time, Edwards's second game show was The New Treasure Hunt (1973).
- Best remembered by the public as the original host of The Dating Game (1965).
