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Alan King was born Irwin Alan Kniberg in New York City on December 26, 1927, the youngest of eight children. After living for a time on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the family moved to another tough neighborhood, the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. He grew up in a family environment which fostered his interest in storytelling, but it was the streets of New York that pointed him toward humor. Boys learned to defend themselves early on the mean streets of Brooklyn, and if it was not with their fists, it was with humor, and King had an answer for everything.
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Alan King was born Irwin Alan Kniberg on December 26, 1927, in Manhattan, New York. Later, King’s family moved to Brooklyn. King received his first showbiz break, at the age of fourteen, when he performed on the radio program Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour. Following the program, he was invited to join a nationwide comedy tour.
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Bitten by the performing bug at an early age, youngster "Alan King" sang for nickels and dimes in the Brooklyn subways. Born Irwin Alan Kniberg, King's first stage name was Earl Knight, of the itinerant musical aggregation Earl Knight and His Musical Knights. Abandoning music for stand-up comedy, he worked his way up the Catskills circuit and the burlesque wheels. His first big break came in 1949, when he headlined at New York's Paramount Theatre. Seven years later he opened for "Judy Garland" at the Palace, and subsequently accompanied Garland when she performed in London. Making his first film appearance in 1955, King provided side-of-the-mouth comedy relief in such films as "Miracle in the Rain" (1956) and "The Helen Morgan Story" (1957).
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Alan King brings over 20 years of business development, marketing and operations experience to Workplace Options. Prior to this position, he was Vice President of Resource Services for Ceridian's LifeWorks division, where he oversaw the resource and referral, provider relations, external training, quality, and customer service functions. He joined Ceridian in 1998, as a result of its acquisition of Work Family Directions, where he was responsible for resource and referral, and central database functions. Mr. King served in several senior management positions at Central Maine Power Company, the most recent of which was as Vice President of its' international consulting division. Mr. King has a bachelor's degree from Colby College and a master's degree from the University of Rhode Island.
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Alan King was born in Greenwich, South East London, in February 1952. At the age of seven or eight, at John Evelyn School in Deptford (pictured left), Alan was already experimenting with perspective and drawing fairly complex buildings. Moving from a post-WWII Pre-Fabricated house in Deptford to New Cross at the age of about ten he could often be found loitering at the back of Goldsmiths College during the summer when the lectures were sometimes held outside and he could get through a convenient hole in the fence from the railway embankment.............
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Alan King (1927-2004) was a comedian and actor who performed Catskills stand-up and was a regular guest host on The Tonight Show. He appeared in films, first bit roles in MGM movies like Hit the Deck and The Helen Morgan Story, then later key supporting roles in Author! Author!, Casino, and The Sunshine State.
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