Name Alex Barris Role Television actor | Children Ted Barris Awards Margaret Collier Award | |
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Died January 15, 2004, Toronto, Canada Books Stop the Presses!: The Newspaperman in American Films TV shows Front Page Challenge, The Barris Beat, Barris and Company Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement - Comedy, Variety or Music | ||
Alex Paul Barris, CM (September 16, 1922 – January 15, 2004) was an American-born Canadian television actor and writer. He was a writer and panelist for the game show Front Page Challenge. He was born in New York City and moved to Canada, residing in Agincourt, Ontario.
Barris was 81 when he died due to complications from a stroke he suffered a year earlier in Toronto.
His son, Ted, is a journalism professor and author of several books. In 1998, Alex Barris was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
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