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Topic: Bill Cullen


  
  Bill Cullen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cullen was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and survived a childhood bout with polio that left him with a limp for the rest of his life.
Cullen was a pilot during World War II and was interested in mechanics.
Cullen died in 1990 of lung cancer at the age of 70.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Cullen   (594 words)

  
 The Life and Times of Bill Cullen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bill survived, although he was left with a limp for the rest of his life.
By 1958 Bill was one of the highest-paid TV performers in America, pulling in $300,000 a year.
Bill also found the time to release a record album, entitled "Bill Cullen's Minstrel Spectacular", a history of the American minstrel show, featuring various performances held together by Bill's narration.
www.expage.com /cullentribute   (366 words)

  
 Game Show Congress
At 18 months of age, Bill developed polio and was left with a permanent limp (something he later tried to hide on camera with varying degrees of success).
Among Bill's hobbies were photography (he owned tons of equipment and took literally thousands of pictures of his wife Ann), interior decorating, model plane building, painting (water color and oils), magic, music (he tried to learn saxophone and guitar), raising fish and writing plays and poetry.
Bill was among the last of the major game show hosts to make the move to Los Angeles, in part because of his long-time association with producer Bob Stewart, who also resisted relocating to the west coast.
www.gameshowcongress.com /BillCullen.html   (1481 words)

  
 RTE.ie Entertainment - It's A Long Way From Penny Apples by Bill Cullen
Bill Cullen - the eldest surviving son in a family of fourteen - tells this extraordinary tale of his childhood, his journey through life and the people he met on the way.
Cullen learned his strict work ethic from his grandmother and mother, both of whom were street traders, who sold everything from fruit to newspapers to Christmas decorations.
Cullen also introduces us to his father, William, an ex-army man who tries to control his family but has to concede that it is his wife who really keeps the wolf from the door.
www.rte.ie /arts/2002/0305/cullenb.html   (567 words)

  
 Authors on the Web - Irish Author Roundtable
Bill Cullen is the Chairman and owner of the Glencullen Motor Group in Ireland.
Bill was born in 1942 in the inner slums of the Summerhill tenements in Dublin.
Bill Cullen is also the director of the Irish Youth Foundation which raises a half million pounds a year for youth projects in Ireland, giving opportunities for achievement to kids like himself.
www.authorsontheweb.com /features/0303-irish/irish-authors.asp   (1450 words)

  
 Bill Cullen Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bill's association with their company would span almost forty years.
Bill met the former Ann Macomber in the summer of 1955, during which time he was commuting to California once a week to host Place the Face.
Bill continued to be a devoted flier well into the 1970s.
userdata.acd.net /ottinger/Cullen/bio.html   (1739 words)

  
 Bill Cullen - Alcohol Intervention Specialist
Bill Cullen has been in recovery himself since his last drink on June 5th, 1977.
Since 1981 Bill Cullen has been facilitating successful interventions with chemically dependent people whose chief characteristic is their total denial of their disease and/or their refusal to accept help.
Bill works with all age groups, male and female, alcohol and other drugs in various stages of addiction.
www.alcoholintervention.com   (116 words)

  
 Capital News Online | News | Bill seeks to stop user fee free-for-all
Representatives of both firms have told Cullen that longer waiting times for patents are hurting their competitiveness.
Cullen, who is a member of the committee, says the government has been slow to react to its recommendations.
Cullen acknowledges that his bill won't simplify matters in the House.
www.carleton.ca /jmc/cnews/07032003/n3.shtml   (823 words)

  
 LEA Leaders and Contacts
Bill earned his Ph.D. from Christian Bible College and Seminary in 1994 and preceded that with an M.Ed.
Cullen is active in a wide range of professional activities, leading workshops, participating in a variety of leadership and servant events, and writing articles and Bible studies for CPH, LEA, and Lutheran Education journal.
Bill Cullen was selected to receive this award by LEA’s Directors of Christian Education Network Leadership and LEA staff.
www.lea.org /award06masterdce.htm   (316 words)

  
 Classic TV & Movie Hits - Bill Cullen
Biography: Bill Cullen, full name William Lawrence Cullen (February 18, 1920—July 7, 1990), was an American radio and television personality.
Cullen was a very bright man. He was a pilot during World War II and he had a long time love of anything mechanical.
Cullen died in Los Angeles, California, of lung cancer in 1990 at the age of 70.
www.classictvhits.com /cast.php?id=3804   (485 words)

  
 Amazon.com: It's a Long Way from Penny Apples: Books: Bill Cullen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bill Cullen is obviously one of the people who read "Angela's Ashes" and felt it was a negative representation of the Irish.
Bill Cullen's is summed up in a few paragraphs; the only reason it is mentioned seems to be for the opportunity for Cullen to brag that the most expensive tailor in Dublin made his Communion suit as a surprise for him, just because the tailor admired the Cullen family so much.
Bill Cullen wrote the book as a tribute to his parents and grandmother, not as an ego booster for his own esteem.
www.amazon.com /Its-Long-Way-Penny-Apples/dp/0765310430   (2268 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002032539   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bill Cullen was lucky enough to have one such family.
Born and bred in the rough inner city slums of Summerhill in Dublin, Bill was one of fourteen children.
Bill Cullen's story is an account of incredible poverty and deprivation in the Dublin slums.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol031/2002032539.html   (523 words)

  
 July 13, 2002
Bill Davis moved to approve the minutes as written, which Bill Cullen seconded, and the board passed.
Bill A. continued his thanks to Bev Smith, who coordinated the process and Eileen Raymond, whose work was invaluable.
Bill Cullen reported that Janice Peters would be presented with the St. Lawrence Academy Medal at the Alumni Banquet to be held tonight.
www.potsdam.edu /content.php?contentID=08554EAE0514558ADDC116ADD99781C2   (1009 words)

  
 The Game Show Convention Center
Bill had to be the master at stifling a laugh.
Bill's last television appearance came as a celebrity player on the CBS version of Pyramid in 1987.
The commentary was a remembrance of Bill Cullen.
emceesteve.tripod.com /column_2_17_00.htm   (1128 words)

  
 Blankety Blanks
Cullen revealed a subject the players were to identify, along with six numbers which were clues to the subject’s identity.
Cullen’s talents may not have been appreciated by a television audience that perceived him as somewhat ubiquitous (he was appearing 11 times a week as host and panelist of the games mentioned above).
Cullen died July 7, 1990, at the age of 70.
www.curtalliaume.com /blankety.html   (717 words)

  
 Blockbusters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bill Cullen was the man when it came to game shows.
Bill Cullen and Bill Rafferty were great, as usual, but having two players go against one deep-sixed "Blockbusters" with little opportunity to fix the problem in time for a successful run.
Bill Cullen was a real game show host, and I miss him dearly.
www.jumptheshark.com /b/blockbusters.htm   (416 words)

  
 Bill Cullen Autobiography - Game Show Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Bill Cullen who's the subject of the autobiography is an Irish businessman who started in poverty and eventually became chairman of Renault Motors.
There's also a Bill Cullen on the web who's an alcohol intervention specialist and another who's a math teacher in Hawaii.
There's also a William Cullen who was an 18th century physician (he coined the word "neuroses"), and there was a 19th century poet named William Cullen Bryant.
gameshow.ipbhost.com /index.php?showtopic=924   (499 words)

  
 Bill Cullen for YOUR state reprentative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Yet in two years as a State legislator, she chief authored one bill for K-12 education, nothing for higher education and nothing for school districts in general.
However, the only bill Maria Ruud chief authored with regard to healthcare is one to put reporting mandates on healthcare providers.
HF118, also called “the cheeseburger bill,” was put forward to curtail frivolous lawsuits against the food industry due to poor consumer choices which result in obesity or weight gain.
www.cullen4rep.com   (1240 words)

  
 Golden Apples - Bill Cullen
Bill Cullen succeeded in breaking the Guinness World Record™ for the largest ever book signing in Easons, O’Connell St, yesterday.
By the end of the day they were delighted to announce that Bill is now Guinness World Record Holder for the largest number of books signed by a single author in one sitting.
Following his success Bill commented “The people of Dublin came out in force to support one of their own but we also got visitors from every county in Ireland who came into O’Connell St. to get their books signed.
www.goldenapples.ie /goldenapples/worldrecord.htm   (221 words)

  
 The Bill Cullen Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A chronological chart of Bill Cullen TV series, showing how often he had two or more programs on at the same time.
Bill Cullen was one of the busiest and most popular personalities in the history of television.
He appeared as a regular in more different television series than any other performer, and in a field where careers are sometimes measured in months, he was employed almost continuously for more than forty years in radio and television, often with multiple series on the air at the same time.
userdata.acd.net /ottinger/Cullen   (1048 words)

  
 Scoop: Cullen: KiwiSaver Bill - First Reading
I intend that the Bill be referred to the Finance and Expenditure committee for consideration.
The KiwiSaver Bill represents a landmark in social and economic legislation.
This would require the KiwiSaver Bill to attain Royal Assent by early October to ensure that providers of default schemes have around 6 months from appointment to be ready for the scheme to commence.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0603/S00052.htm   (2959 words)

  
 Bill Cullen - Simple English Wikipedia
Bill Cullen was an American television game show host.
He was born on February 18, 1920, and he died on July 7, 1990.
Bill Cullen died in 1990 from lung cancer after smoking for most of his life.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Cullen   (145 words)

  
 BBC Radio 4 - Factual - Desert Island Discs - Bill Cullen
This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the Irish businessman and writer Bill Cullen.
He was one of fourteen children born to William Cullen and Mary Darcy.
Born during the war, the family lived in a one-room dilapidated tenement. Learning the secrets of street trading from his mother and grandmother, Bill started selling from market stalls from the age of five.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20031019.shtml   (311 words)

  
 Bill Leak: The Last of the Larrikins
I think he is out on the edge and that's the only place that Bill Leak would want to sit." Comedian Richard Fidler adds, "I think Bill is probably the premier cartoonist in this country.
Robert Desmond Leak, who has always been known as Bill, was born into a musical family.
Max Cullen talks to a former victim, Graham Richardson, who sat for Leak in 1995.
sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/art_profiles/article_1127.asp?s=1   (819 words)

  
 Quiz Shows of the Fifties - Twenty One, $64,000 Question. Price is Right and more
Some poor bedraggled woman would tell her tale of woe and, if hers was the most pathetic story, she got prizes.
Popular and sought after as a host and panelist, Cullen was a regular on a couple of networks at the same time.
Each contestant claimed to be the same person and panelists had to guess which one was telling the truth.
www.fiftiesweb.com /quizshow.htm   (886 words)

  
 Bill Cullen: Golden Apples at Holy Shmoly!
I am a big fan of gift grub but i have never heard of dr bill cullen.
Bill Cullen information can be found on http://www.goldenapples.ie He is the owner of Renault Ireland
He started his empire when he was a boy were he sold fruit, vegetables and shirley Temple immitation dolls in Dublin city.
ocaoimh.ie /2005/04/19/bill-cullen-golden-apples   (525 words)

  
 Bill Cullen Biography (Game Show Host) — Infoplease.com
Bill Cullen's profession was game shows, and he was well-known as both a host and celebrity panelist.
Cullen's physical signatures were his horn-rimmed glasses and crewcut (though he later grew out the hair), and his cheerful low-ego style made him an enduring favorite with game show aficionados.
Extra credit: Cullen had polio as a child and walked with a slight limp...
www.infoplease.com /biography/var/billcullen.html   (209 words)

  
 Bibliofemme: World Record Attempt at launch of Bill Cullen's new book
Bill Cullen the author of It's a Long Way from Penny Apples, announced today that he will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest ever book signing.
Bill will be aiming to sign a total of 2005 copies of Golden Apples consecutively to secure the title Guinness World Record Holder for the largest number of books signed by a single author in one sitting.
Renault boss and President of the Irish Youth Foundation, Bill Cullen said; I would love everyone to come along to cheer on and support this World Record attempt for charity.
www.bibliofemme.com /news/2005/120405a.shtml   (1171 words)

  
 Golden Apples - Bill Cullen
Bill Cullen started his career as a 5-year-old street seller.
Take the first step today on that magical journey with Bill Cullen’s new book Golden Apples.
Bill Cullen succeeded in breaking the Guinness World Record™ for the largest ever book signing in Easons
www.goldenapples.ie   (92 words)

  
 Sonic Software's Bill Cullen Named to InfoWorld's List of 2005 Innovators; Cullen Named to Innovator's Hall of Fame for ...
A profile of Cullen and the other winners appears in the August 1 issue of InfoWorld and is available online at http://www.infoworld.com/reports/31SRinnovators2005.html.
As vice president of engineering at Sonic Software, Bill Cullen has led the development of the Sonic ESB and its CAA (Continuous Availability Architecture), a fail-over mechanism that not only guarantees message delivery, but reduces recovery time to mere seconds, all on inexpensive hardware.
"Bill Cullen was instrumental in leading the development of the world's first enterprise service bus.
www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/2005/aug/1169957.htm   (1148 words)

  
 05.21.billcullen
Martin Luther King envisioned and urged, coincidentally, that same April of 1967.
Bill Cullen of Dubuque, Iowa, is a member of Democrats for Life and Teamsters Local 421.
This originally appeared in the Dubuque, Iowa, Telegraph Herald.
www.populist.com /05.21.billcullen.html   (656 words)

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