Dennis James

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dennis James
Occupation	Game Show Host
Date Of Birth	Aug 24, 1917(1917-08-24)
Age	107
Birthplace	Jersey City, NJ
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Virgo

Dennis James Biography

Dennis James is one of the most popular and richest Game Show Host who was born on August 24, 1917 in Jersey City, NJ, New Jersey, United States. American television personality who hosted the first network game show, Cash and Carry. He also held the first telethon and starred in the first commercial.

He often filled in for Monty Hall on Let’s Make a Deal.

James’ interest in silent film performance with live music dates from 1969 at the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. As James recalls, “The late ‘Flicker Fingers’ himself, California touring theatre organist Gaylord Carter, was at the Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ console and on the screen Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. in The Mark of Zorro. In classic ‘Chorus Line’ fashion, I turned to my Dad at the end and said ‘I can do that!'”

Dennis James is an American musician and historic preservationist who played “a pivotal role in the international revival of silent films as presented with period-authentic live music.” Beginning in 1969, he presented historically informed live accompaniments for silent films, with piano, theatre organ, chamber ensemble and full symphony orchestras, throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and overseas. He is now primarily active as a noted multi- instrumentalist, specializing on Franklin glass armonica and the theremin, prominently performing in New York at the Metropolitan Opera, for Hollywood film scorings, and repeat performances at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival (debuting in 1991 with Roger Norrington and the London Classical Players) plus performing at the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra performing the intricate glass armonica complete part in the U.S. debut of George Benjamin’s opera “Written On Skin.”.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and died in Palm Springs of lung cancer.

Dennis James Net Worth

Dennis James is one of the richest Game Show Host from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dennis James 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started out on the radio and then went into TV. Idiosyncratically he would call his audience Mother.

He worked as an announcer of the quiz show Judge for Yourself, and was a host on Name That Tune.

James was born in Philadelphia in 1950 and began formal organ training at the age of 12. At the age of 16, he replaced his teacher, Leonard ‘Melody Mac’ MacClain, in concert when the latter suffered a heart attack before the performance, and that exposure put him on an international touring circuit. James attended Indiana University’s School of Music as a student of concert and church organ performance, earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees under the tutelage of Dr. Oswald G. Ragatz.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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From 2010 to 2015 James served as the initial appointed Lecturer in glass music studies at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, designing a glass music studies program that including graduate level student instruction in Seraphim and Armonica (the first such academic appointment in the history of the field). James performed glass armonica contributions to six of Linda Ronstadt’s popular music CD album projects, including Winter Light and the Grammy Award-winning “Dedicated to the One I Love” and “Trio II” featuring Dolly Parton and EmmyLou Harris. “Linda explained she had first heard the sounds of rubbed glass some 15 years before, just where, though, escapes her to this day. She kept that ethereal sound in her mind all those years and it was during the orchestra sessions and post-session mix on the track “A River for Him”, written by Emmylou Harris, that Linda had the inspiration to add the glass tones”, says James. James appeared on Late Night with David Letterman with Ronstadt. “It was a great surprise. A sort of unspoken message in the air to me before the broadcast was ‘Do not say anything on the air!’ After all, these things are Linda’s appearances. When David Letterman leaned over his desk and directed a question to me I simply froze – on playback of the dub I can see myself caught and unable to speak. I received a glance from Linda that said to me it was OK and so when he tried again I called back a flip one liner and on things went from there”, says James.

Facts & Trivia

Dennis Ranked on the list of most popular Game Show Host. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dennis James celebrates birthday on August 24 of every year.

James currently is the appointed (2018) “House Organist for the Heights Theatre” in Elmira Heights, NY, plus (2010) “Theatre Organist for the Washington Center” a professional position in the Washington Center for the Performing Arts in Olympia, Washington, and also the appointed (2010) “House Organist” for the Historic Coleman Theatre, Miami, Oklahoma while continuing as the Cinequest Festival silent film organist for California Theatre in San Jose, California, Silent Film organist for Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto, California, and Stummfilm Series organist for Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.