Charles Hirsch "Chuck" Barris (born June 3, 1929) is an American game show producer, film director and presenter best known for hosting The Gong Show and creating The Dating Game. Barris, a survivor of lung cancer, is also an author and claims to have worked for the CIA.
Early career
The Gong Show
Comebacks and setbacks
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
In Barris's autobiography Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, originally published in 1984, Barris claimed to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an assassin in the 1960s and the 1970s. "Obviously, I never went around killing people for the CIA," he said in 1984. "I was trying to make a point."[4] But a 2002 feature film version, directed by George Clooneyand starring Sam Rockwell, depicts Barris as killing 33 people. Barris wrote the sequel Bad Grass Never Dies in 2004.
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