Garrison Keillor Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion.
Steven Keillor, Linda Keillor Berg, Stanley Keillor, Judy Locke, John Philip Keillor Jr.
Nicknames
Gary Edward Keillor , Keillor, Garrison , Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor
Awards
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, Ambassador Book Award for Fiction, Jacksonville, FL, USA, Clearwater, FL, USA, Sarasota, FL, USA
Nominations
Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance, Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay, Jacksonville, FL, USA, Clearwater, FL, USA, Sarasota, FL, USA
Movies
Jacksonville, FL, USA, Clearwater, FL, USA, Sarasota, FL, USA, Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure, Garrison Keillor: The Man On the Radio in the Red Shoes, A Prairie Home Companion, The Sandy Bottom Orchestra, Redux Riding Hood, Afraid So, A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
TV Shows
The Civil War
Star Sign
Leo
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Quote
1
Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it's a problem to be overcome.
2
[summarizing a proposed film project] It's got a funeral, it's got a big Fourth of July parade and, you know, two people taking each other's clothes off. Everything we look for in a movie.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is "You can't say that".
4
When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't. If you can't be Philip Roth, then don't. So you'll do this other thing instead. And maybe you'll be writing the very thing that John Updike and Philip Roth wish to hell they could. They're neither of them particularly funny; maybe that's what they've always wanted to do.
5
I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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I am in favor of corruption so long as it makes people truly happy. And so long as somebody writes a good confessional memoir like John Dean's "Blind Ambition."
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
9
Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.
10
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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Fact
1
Recovering in a hospital after suffering a minor stroke on September 7, 2009.
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Garrison Keillor was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1994.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
2016
Video
Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure
2013
Video
Farmer O'Dell / Narrator (voice)
The Darkest Evening of the Year
2011
Short
Narrator (voice)
The Minus Touch
2011
Short
Narrator (voice)
Afraid So
2006
Short voice
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
GK
Hercules
1998
TV Series
Odin
Redux Riding Hood
1997
Short
The Narrator (voice)
American Experience
1996
TV Series documentary
Narrator
The Dakota Conflict
1993
TV Movie
Co-Narrator
The Civil War
1990
TV Mini-Series documentary
Walt Whitman / Various
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
2016
Video
A Prairie Home Companion Live in HD! Again!
2010
TV Movie written by
A Prairie Home Companion Live in HD!
2010
TV Movie written by
American Masters
2008
TV Series documentary based on monologues by - 1 episode
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" - uncredited / screenplay / story
The Sandy Bottom Orchestra
2000
TV Movie novel
A Prairie Home Companion: The Second Annual Farewell Performance
1988
TV Movie
A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
1987
TV Series writer
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Prairie Home Companion Live in HD! Again!
2010
TV Movie executive producer
A Prairie Home Companion Live in HD!
2010
TV Movie executive producer
Great Performances
2006
TV Series executive producer - 2 episodes
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
lyrics: "Guy Noir", "Go Tell Aunt Gladys", "Piscacadawadaquoddymoggin", "Jens Jensen's Herring Commercial", "Slow Days Of Summer", "My Minnesota Home", "Beboparebop Rhubarb Pie", "Whoop-I-Ti-Yi-Yo", "Baby, Baby, Be My Man", "Coffee Jingle", "The New Munich Beer Commercial", "The Day Is Short", "The Prince Of Pizza Commercial", "Goodbye To My Mama", "Bad Jokes", "Frankie & Johnny" / music: "I Used To Work In Chicago", "Slow Days Of Summer", "Coffee Jingle", "The Day Is Short", "Goodbye To My Mama
Are you kidding? Even asking that question is stupid. 40 frigging years of Prairie home companion, all the books, even a movie? He should be worth a hundred times that piddling amount of 1.5 mil.
$5 Million
$176,000
Are you kidding? Even asking that question is stupid. 40 frigging years of Prairie home companion, all the books, even a movie? He should be worth a hundred times that piddling amount of 1.5 mil.