TV Guide: Chuck Barris

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:29:54 -0500

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. This is the story of the double life of legendary showman Chuck Barris -- television producer by day, CIA assassin by night.

Video: June 14, 1976

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:36:51 -0500

Chuck Barris debuts The Gong Show The NY Mets and NY Yankees go head to head for the 12th Mayor's Trophy David Bowie transfixes us in The Man Who Fell To Earth

Video: June 3, 1968

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:36:29 -0500

Andy Warhol survives assassination attempt by radical feminist author Valerie Solanas Monkees fans mourn news of the show's impending cancellation Game show impressario Chuck Barris turns 39

Video: Confession Of A Dangerous Mind?(1/9/03)

CBS — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:50:16 -0500

Did Chuck Barris really kill 33 people while working for the CIA?

Video: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Trailer (#2)

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:35:11 -0500

Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? That's the take-it-or-leave-it premise of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on the memoir of the same name by Chuck Barris. Barris (Sam Rockwell) grows up dreaming of success in show biz and winning the hearts of beautiful women, but early on, he meets with plenty of resistance from both women and the television industry, despite writing the hit tune "Palisades Park" and scoring a job with Dick Clark on American Bandstand. The 1960s proves more fortunate for Barris; he meets the love of his life, Penny (Drew Barrymore), and sells ABC on the idea of The Dating Game. However, after the show has made him wealthy and successful, Barris is approached by the mysterious Jim Byrd (George Clooney), a CIA agen