Alan Hamel
Actor, TV Actor
1936 –
Who is Alan Hamel?
Alan Hamel is a Canadian entertainer and television host, who was a co-host of a Canadian children's television show called Razzle Dazzle from 1961 to 1964. The show featured a talking turtle named Howard.
Hamel was born in Toronto, Ontario. He attended the television arts programme at Ryerson Institute of Technology in 1954 but never graduated. In the late 1960s he hosted two syndicated game shows which aired on all the ABC owned and operated TV stations as well as others: Wedding Party; and Anniversary Game, where he first met Suzanne Somers, whom he married in 1977. In the late 1970s, he hosted The Alan Hamel Show, a popular daytime talk show on Canadian TV, and was the television spokesman for the Alpha Beta grocery stores in California and its sister chain Acme in the Northeast. Somers recently made the news by declaring on The View that she and Hamel have sex several times a day.
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- Born
- Jun 30, 1936
Toronto - Also known as
- Al Hamel
- Spouses
- Suzanne Somers
(1977/11/11 - ) - Marilyn Hamel
( - 1977)
- Suzanne Somers
- Children
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Ryerson University
- Lived in
- Toronto
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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