Robert Keeshan Net Worth is
$800,000

Mini Biography

Television manufacturer and web host Robert Adam Keeshan was created in Lynbrook, Long Isle, NY. As a man he offered in america Sea Corps Reserve. Beginning as a full page at the Country wide Broadcasting Business, Keeshan later started his on-air profession as the initial “Clarabell, the Clown” for the NBC The Howdy Doody Display (1947) (aka “The Howdy Doody Display”). He was then your first sponsor/performer of WJZ/WABC Television Ch. 7 NYC’s “Period For Fun” / “The Johnny Jellybean Display”. Keeshan emceed the display as “Corny The Clown” weekdays at noon from Mon, Sept 21st, 1953, to Fri, July 29th, 1955. He co-created, co-produced and hosted “Tinker’s Workshop” with Jack port Miller on WJZ/WABC Television Ch. 7 in NEW YORK weekday mornings from Mon, November 15, 1954 to Fri, Sept 9, 1955. The display continuing without Robert until Fri August 22, 1958. The later on hosts from the show had been Henry Burbig, Gene London & Dom DeLuise. When asked to construct a display for kids, he leaped at the opportunity. On Monday, Oct 3rd, 1955, Captain Kangaroo (1955) started its near 30-calendar year operate on CBS, until it had been moved to Community Broadcasting Provider (PBS) in the 1980s. There is lots of fun in the “Treasure Home”, with Bunny Rabbit swindling carrots before lunchtime in the Captain or Mister Moose selecting yet another method to have the Captain to stand still lengthy more than enough to drop a large number of ping-pong balls down on the ever-unsuspecting Captain’s mind. Dennis (Cosmo Allegretti) requesting a lot of queries that Mister Bainter would more often than not lose his great. Even while in this, Captain Kangaroo trained us beliefs and gave people that have occupied or absent fathers a mild and caring man role model to understand great behavior and manners from. A like of reading was urged and the pets that Mister Green Denims (Hugh Brannum) demonstrated allowed kids who had under no circumstances seen a specific animal to see it though his desire for it. During its operate in 1964, Keeshan also got on a Sunday morning hours persona as “Mister Mayor” to get a year, but continued to be the Captain before end of its operate on PBS in 1993. Over time he as well as the display gained six Emmy’s and three Peabody Honours, totaling nine honours, entirely, and he was also elected towards the Clown Hall of Popularity. In 1989 he posted “Growing Up Happy” and in October of 1996 he posted “HELLO Captain: 50 Wonderful Years with Bob Keeshan, TV’s Captain Kangaroo”. Keeshan can be the author from the “Itty Bitty Kitty” children’s reserve series. Widowed in the 1990s, he passed away in Vermont in 2004.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Bob Keeshan
Died	January 23, 2004, Windsor, Vermont, United States
Profession	Actor, Television producer
Education	Forest Hills High School, Fordham University
Nationality	American
Spouse	Anne Jeanne Laurie Keeshan
Children	Laurie Margaret, Michael Derek, Maeve Jeanne
Awards	Peabody Award, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Entertainment Series, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer In Children's Programming
Nominations	Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Entertainment Special, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming - Informational/Factual
Movies	The Stupids
TV Shows	CBS Storybreak, Captain Kangaroo, Howdy Doody