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Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (; born August 25, 1931) is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Sometimes called (alternatively attributed to James Brown) "the hardest working man in show business", he holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera.〔 His trademarks include his excited manner, his Bronx accent, his wit, and his irreverent ad-libs. Philbin is most widely known as the host of the New York City-based nationally syndicated talk show ''Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee'' starting in 1988, which became ''Live! with Regis and Kelly'' starting in 2001 and continued until Philbin's departure in 2011.〔(Regis Philbin - Kelly Ripa - Live with Regis and Kelly - Review )〕 Philbin has also hosted ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'',〔 ''Million Dollar Password'',〔(Regis Philbin: Million Dollar Password on CBS )〕 and the first season of ''America's Got Talent''.〔(Jerry Springer replacing Regis Philbin as 'America's Got Talent' host - Reality TV World )〕 ==Early life and career== Regis Francis Xavier Philbin〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfdZytlQhJM〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Regis Philbin at chacha.com )〕 was born on August 25, 1931 in the Bronx, New York City. His father, Francis "Frank" Philbin, a U.S. Marine who served in the Pacific, was of Irish heritage.〔 :(Commentary; ''"Part of an Irish Catholic family, ..."'')〕 His mother, Filomena "Florence" (née Boscia), was from an Italian immigrant family of Arbëreshë (ethnic Albanians from Italy) descent.〔 They lived in the Van Nest section of the Bronx.〔(regis )〕 Philbin was raised Roman Catholic.〔 He was supposedly named "Regis" because his father wanted him to attend the prestigious Regis High School. It was long believed that Philbin was an only child, but on the February 1, 2007, broadcast of ''Live with Regis and Kelly'', Philbin announced that he did have a brother, Frank M. Philbin (March 1, 1951 – January 27, 2007), who had died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma several days earlier.〔(Regis Philbin - Bio Brief - Biography )〕 Philbin said his brother, 20 years younger than he, had asked to not be mentioned on television or in the press. Philbin attended Our Lady of Solace grammar school in the Bronx,〔(Four County Catholic )〕 and graduated from Cardinal Hayes High School〔 in the Bronx in 1949 before attending the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated in 1953 with a sociology degree.〔 He later served in the United States Navy as a supply officer, then went through a few behind-the-scenes jobs in television and radio before moving into the broadcasting arena.〔 In his earliest show business work, Philbin was a page at ''The Tonight Show'' in the 1950s. Later he wrote for Los Angeles talk show host Tom Duggan, nervously filling in one night when the hard-drinking Duggan didn't show up.〔 He also was an announcer on ''The Tonight Show'' in 1962.〔 In 1957, Regis left his job as assistant news editor to Baxter Ward at KCOP, Los Angeles to make his fortune in New York. His replacement at KCOP was George Van Valkenburg. His first talk show was ''The Regis Philbin Show''〔 on KOGO-TV (now KGTV) in San Diego, California. For budgetary reasons he had no writing staff, so he began each show with what has become his hallmark, the "host chat" segment (influenced by Jack Paar), where he engages his audience (and later, his co-host) in discussions about his life and the day's events. Philbin gained his first national exposure in 1967 as Joey Bishop's sidekick on ''The Joey Bishop Show''〔(The Joey Bishop Show (TV Series 1967–1969) - IMDb )〕 on television (1967–1969). In a Johnny Carson-Ed McMahon vein, Bishop would playfully tease Philbin and Philbin would take the barbs in stride. But his feelings were wounded when he learned from the network grapevine that ABC executives were dissatisfied with his work and his thick accent, so during the opening of one 1968 program, he launched an unplanned diatribe about "not being wanted and letting down" the program and abruptly quit on air. A few nights later, assured by Bishop that all was well and the barbs were not personal, Philbin returned. As revealed in his book, ''How I Got This Way'', this was actually all a ruse planned by Bishop and Regis to steal the spotlight and attract some of Johnny Carson's viewers. When ''The Joey Bishop Show'' was canceled, Bishop returned the favor and walked off the show on the air unannounced, leaving Philbin to successfully carry the night on his own. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Regis Philbin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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