Joseph Fortgang (March 9, 1926 – January 24, 2015), widely known as Joe Franklin, was an American radio and television host personality, author and actor from New York City. His television show began in January 1951 on WJZ-TV (later WABC-TV) and moved to WOR-TV (later WWOR-TV) from 1962 to 1993.Franklin was born Joseph Fortgang on March 9, 1926, in The Bronx, New York, the oldest of two children, to Austrian–Jewish parents, Martin Fortgang and Anna Heller. He acknowledged in his memoirs, Up Late With Joe Franklin, (which was written with R. J. Marx), that his press materials had long said, purposely, that he had been born in 1928, but he planned to come clean about his real birth date. As a teenager, Franklin "followed around" Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor, the latter of whom eventually began buying jokes from the young Franklin and whose Carnegie Hall show he later produced. Wikipedia
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