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<a href="/biography/richard-karn">Richard Karn Wilson</a> was born on February 17, 1956 in Seattle, Washington. He is a famous American <a href="/biography/richard-karn">actor</a>, and game show host. His parents were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene">Gene</a>, a Seabee (Naval Construction Battalion of the US Navy) who served during the World War II, and Louise Wilson, a painter who died due to cancer in 1983. Richard also has a sister whose name is Sue. He studied at the “Roosevelt High School” in Seattle, where he discovered to have some inclination towards acting. Richard completed his graduation from the “University of Washington”, where he was closely associated with the fraternity of Beta Theta Pi, and where he earned his degree in drama in 1979. Richard also gained drama experience at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.

After finishing his studies, Richard moved to New York, where he was hired to do a commercial right away. When he joined the Screen Actor Guild, a labor union that represented film and television performers, Richard was told that there was already an actor known with his same name, so he dropped his last name. In 1989, following the suggestion of his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudi_Roche">wife</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudi_Roche">Tudi</a>, he moved to Los Angeles. He worked initially as a manager in an apartment complex, while catering events in a Jewish synagogue. He casted for the television show “Home Improvement”, and after guest starring in the pilot episode, be became a regular cast member when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Tobolowsky">Stephen Tobolowsky</a> had to give up on the role of Ai Borland because he was already busy with another movie.

From 2002 to 2006, Richard hosted the game show “Family Feud”. He’s been the fourth <a href="/biography/richard-karn">host</a> of the game show, replacing <a href="/biography/louie-anderson">Louie Anderson</a>, and having been replaced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O'Hurley">John O’Hurley</a>. On 2008, Richard replaced <a href="/biography/patrick-duffy">Patrick Duffy</a> in the role of the host of the Game Show Networs’ “Bingo America”.

We have seen Richard playing in the movies in "Picture Perfect" (1995, in which he plays in the role of George Thomas), "Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy" (1997, in which he plays in the role of Brice Renard), "The Pooch and the Pauper" (2000, in which he plays in the role of Agent Dainville), "MVP: Most Vertical Primate" (2001, in which he plays in the role of Ollie Plant), "Sex and the Teenage Mind" (2002, in which he plays in the role of Stanley Heitmeyer), "Reality School" (2002, in which he plays in the role of Victor Cayanne), "Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch" (2002, in which he plays in the role of <a href="/biography/patrick-duffy">Patrick</a>), "Air Buddies" (2006, in which he plays in the role of <a href="/biography/patrick-duffy">Patrick</a>), "Mr. Blue Sky" (2006, in which he plays in the role of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O'Hurley">John</a>), "Snow Buddies" (2008, in which he plays in the role of <a href="/biography/patrick-duffy">Patrick</a>), "Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury" (2011, in which he plays in the role of Bill Witherspoon), "Gordon Family Tree" (2013, in which he plays in the role of Perry Merrow"5]), "A Daughter's Nightmare" (2014, in which he plays in the role of Cameron "Cam" Morgan), "Horse Dancer" (2017, in which he plays in the role of Jerry), "F the Prom" (2017, in which he plays in the role of Murphy Datner), and in “Christmas in Mississippi (2017, in which he plays in the role of Mr. McGuire).

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Richard had many roles in Television as well, the most important of which is in the TV series "Home Improvement" (from 1991 to 1999) in which he played the role of Ai Borland in 202 total episodes. We saw him even in an episode of "Boy Meets World" (1995), while he’s been the host of the programs "WOW! The Most Amazing Acts on Earth" (1996), "Chariots of the Gods? The Mysteries Continue" (1996), and "Foot Soldier" (1998). He then appeared in an episode of "Recess" (2000), and in another episode of "That '70s Show" (2001), before starting the successful hosting on the programs "Family Feud" (2002–2006) and "Bingo America" (2008–2009). In 2002 Richard appeared also in the music video “Someday” of The Strokes, which opened the featuring of the band on a fictional show of Family Feud. He also appeared in an episode of "Dirt" (2008), "True Jackson, VP" (2010), in two episodes of "Last Man Standing" (2013) and two episodes of "The Bold and the Beautiful" (2017), "Detroiters" (2017), and, starting in 2018, he is in the TV series “Find Your Future Reality” in the role of himself.

Richard also wrote two books, “House Broken: How I Remodeled My Home for Just Under Three Times the Original Bid” (1999) and “Handy at Home: Tips on Improving Your Home from America's Favorite Handyman” (2002).

Richard married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudi_Roche">Tudi Roche</a>, an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudi_Roche">actress</a> and singer, in 1985, and they had a child, Cooper Andrew Wilson, that was born in 1992.

Richard is very active in social media, and he likes to keep in touch with his fans: he has a personal profile on Facebook, where he counts more than 2800 friends, and a personal page with more than 900 followers. Richard also has a Twitter account where he’s followed by more than 3.7k people. His estimated net worth is around $10 million.

In 2016 Richard has been <a href="/biography/richard-karn">victim</a> of a hoax: the news of his death spread on the web, and a Facebook page dedicated to his memory collected one million likes in a short time.

A funny story about the start of his career has been reported in an interview to news.com.au: When the show first aired in 1991, Karn said he “didn’t really understand how it would change my life. My wife and I managed an apartment building for our day jobs and it got to the point where we had someone call up and say, ‘Hey we’ve got a leak in our sink. Can you please come and take a look?’. I went down there and there’d be like 15 of their friends sitting there and they’d say, ‘See, Al is our super [building superintendent].’ That kind of hit me and I thought, maybe it’s time to give up the day job.”

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