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Robin Leach

Robin Leach

Known For Acting
Birthday Aug 29, 1941
Died Aug 24, 2018 (76)
Birthplace Perivale, London, England
Popularity 0.2 (history)
Updated Aug 05, 2024
Entry Date Apr 26, 2024
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Biography

Robin Douglas Leach (29 August 1941 – 24 August 2018) was a British entertainment reporter, writer, columnist and TV personality. After beginning his career as a print journalist, first in England and then in the United States, he became best known for hosting the television series Lifestyles of the ... Rich and Famous from 1984 to 1995. The show focused on profiling well-known celebrities and their lavish homes, cars and other materialistic details. At age 15 he became a general news reporter for the Harrow Observer, and earned £6 a week after graduation. Leach moved on to the Daily Mail as Britain's youngest "Page One" reporter at age 18. In 1963, he emigrated to the United States, though he maintained his English accent throughout his life (which would become a trademark of his when he began working in television years later). He wrote for several American newspapers, including New York Daily News, People and Ladies' Home Journal, before launching GO Magazine in 1967[3] and then became show business editor of The Star. Leach got his start in television as a regular contributor to AM Los Angeles, with Regis Philbin and Sarah Purcell on KABC-TV. Other television work included reporting for People Tonight, on CNN and Entertainment Tonight and helping start Good Morning Australia, as well as the Food Network. Leach was also a guest at the World Wrestling Federation's WrestleMania IV, where he read the rules for the championship tournament. Leach hosted an exposé documentary of Madonna – Madonna Exposed – for the Fox network in March 1993. He also hosted the Lifestyles spinoffs Runaway with the Rich and Famous and Fame, Fortune and Romance, along with future Today Show host Matt Lauer. He also served as the public address announcer for the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. From 1999, he resided in Las Vegas. He wrote for the Las Vegas Sun and the daily VegasDeluxe.com website from 2008 through June 2016, when he was hired by Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Review-Journal. On 20 November 2017, Leach had a stroke while on vacation in Cabo San Lucas. He had another stroke on 20 August 2018, and died under hospice care in Las Vegas on 24 August, at the age of 76.

Known For

Filmography

Spring Broke

Spring Broke

2016

as Narrator (voice)

The Ridiculous 6

The Ridiculous 6

2015

as Herm (voice)

I.M. Caravaggio

I.M. Caravaggio

2011

as Robin Leach

Free Money

Free Money

1998

as Robin Leach

Thriller Zone

Thriller Zone

1995

as Second Reporter (segment "Fanatical Extreme") (archive footage)

The Real Story of Rain Rain Go Away

The Real Story of Rain Rain Go Away

1990

as Narrator (voice)

She-Devil

She-Devil

1989

as Robin Leach

Troop Beverly Hills

Troop Beverly Hills

1989

as Robin Leach

The Last Horror Film

The Last Horror Film

1982

as Second Reporter

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Great News

as Robin Leach

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Apr 25, 2017

Family Guy

as Robin Leach (voice)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 31, 1999

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

as Chamberlain (voice)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 12, 1995

V.I.P.

as Robin Leach

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 26, 1998

Entertainment Tonight

Episodes: 91

First Aired: Sep 15, 1981

The Surreal Life: Fame Games

as Self - Host

Episodes: 7

First Aired: Jan 08, 2007

Sledge Hammer!

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 23, 1986

Penn & Teller: Bull!

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 24, 2003

thirtysomething

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 29, 1987

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

as Host

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 31, 1984

Hotel

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 21, 1982

Seven Days

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 07, 1998

The Charmings

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 20, 1987

Criss Angel Mindfreak

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 20, 2005

Palace Guard

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 17, 1991

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 19, 2003

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 15, 1994

MasterChef USA

as Self - Guest Judge

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 01, 2000

Hell's Kitchen

as Self - Restaurant Patron

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 30, 2005

Entertainment Tonight

as Self - Correspondent

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 15, 1981

Everybody Hates Chris

as Himself

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 22, 2005

Mr. McMahon

as Self (Voice)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 25, 2024

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