- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- August 7, 1942
- Place of Birth
- Anoka, Minnesota, USA
Garrison Keillor
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. From …
Filmography
movieVince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past
2017
movieTom and Jerry's Giant Adventure
2013 · Farmer O'Dell / Narrator (voice)
movieA Prairie Home Companion Live in HD!
2010 · Self, Writer
movieGarrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
2009 · [himself]
movieA Prairie Home Companion
2006 · GK, Radio Play, Screenplay, Story
movieAfraid So
2006 · Narrator (voice)
tvThe Colbert Report
2005 · Self - Guest
movieA Prairie Home Companion 30th Broadcast Season Celebration
2004 · Garrison Keillor
movieVoices in Wartime
2004 · Walt Whitman (voice)
tvReal Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self
movieThe Main Stream
2002 · Himself
movieThe Sandy Bottom Orchestra
2000 · Novel
movieThe Haunted History of Halloween
1997 · Self
movieThe Big One
1997 · Himself
movieRedux Riding Hood
1997 · The Narrator (voice)
movieThe Wright Stuff
1996 · Narrator
tvBaseball
1994 · (voice)
movieThe Dakota Conflict
1993
movieEmpire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1991 · Self - Writer
Rabbit Ears - Johnny Appleseed
movieRabbit Ears - Johnny Appleseed
1991 · Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Parables That Jesus Told
movieRabbit Ears - Parables That Jesus Told
1991 · Narrator (voice)
tvThe Civil War
1990 · Walt Whitman (voice)
movieThe Congress
1989 · (voice)
tvAmerican Experience
1988 · Narrator (voice)
movieIrving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
1988 · Self
movieThe Wild West Bank Sound
— · Self - Performer (archive footage)