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Garrison Keillor

Acting Born Aug 7, 1942 Anoka, Minnesota, USA 24 credits

Biography

Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He is best known as the creator of the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016.

Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs one or two poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history.

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Known for

Real Time with Bill Maher

as Self

The Colbert Report

as Self - Guest

American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

Baseball

as (voice)
Film

Children of Men

as Walt Whitman (voice)

Paradise Hotel

as (voice)

Full filmography

  • Real Time with Bill Maher (2003) as Self
  • The Colbert Report (2005) as Self - Guest
  • American Experience (1988) as Narrator (voice)
  • Baseball (1994) as (voice)
  • The Civil War (1990) as Walt Whitman (voice)
  • Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure (2013) as Farmer O'Dell / Narrator (voice)
  • The Dakota Conflict (1993)
  • A Prairie Home Companion (2006) as GK
  • The Congress (1989) as (voice)
  • The Big One (1997) as Himself
  • Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991) as Self - Writer
  • Voices in Wartime (2004) as Walt Whitman (voice)
  • The Haunted History of Halloween (1997) as Self
  • Redux Riding Hood (1997) as The Narrator (voice)
  • The Wright Stuff (1996) as Narrator
  • Afraid So (2006) as Narrator (voice)
  • The Wild West Bank Sound as Self - Performer (archive footage)
  • A Prairie Home Companion 30th Broadcast Season Celebration (2004) as Garrison Keillor
  • Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration (1988) as Self
  • A Prairie Home Companion Live in HD! (2010) as Self
  • Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes (2009) as [himself]
  • Rabbit Ears - Johnny Appleseed (1991) as Narrator (voice)
  • The Main Stream (2002) as Himself
  • Rabbit Ears - Parables That Jesus Told (1991) as Narrator (voice)