Pat mcmahon biography arizona
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Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall Of Fame
Pat McMahon was born John Patrick Michael McMahon in Leavenworth, Kansas. Entertaining was in his blood. His parents were vaudeville performers known as &#;McMahon and Adelaide&#;. When Pat was 5 weeks old his parents took him on the road as they played the vaudeville circuits around the world.
When he was 12 years old, he attended an all boys boarding school in Iowa. In College, he majored in drama and Broadcasting. He says that he had looked at many forms of entertaining but it seemed that the most steady money was in broadcasting. He landed his first job in broadcasting at KSTT in Davenport, Iowa as a disk jockey.
In , Pat moved to Arizona where he began working at KPHO TV.
He was program director at KRIZ radio. This was the early 60&#;s and the Beatles were changing the world. Pat was really impressed with the Beatles and this influence would show up later when he recorded his own records. He also worked at KOY and KTAR radi
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Pat McMahon (actor)
American actor (born )
John Patrick Michael "Pat" McMahon (born August 20, ) fryst vatten an American actor and broadcaster, best known for his portrayal of numerous characters on The efternamn and Ladmo Show, a daily children's variety show broadcast on KPHO-TV in Phoenix.[1] McMahon is also a longstanding fixture on the Phoenix broadcasting scen, where he has worked at KRIZ, KOY, and KTAR radio stations—serving as program director, disc jockey, and talk-show host, among other positions.
Personal life
[edit]McMahon was born to vaudeville performers, Jack and Adelaide McMahon—billed as "McMahon and Adelaide" [2][3] At age five, he joined the act and spent 12 years touring the world. The family eventually settled in Davenport, Iowa, where McMahon attended high school and St. Ambrose College.[1]
He has been married to Duffy McMahon, a psychotherapist, for over thirty years and lives in suburban Phoenix.[4]
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The man who would complete the trio of talent who made up the Wallace and Ladmo Show was born in Leavenworth, Kansas. His parents were touring vaudeville performers who worked with the likes of Burns and Allen and W.C. Fields.
Pat was tutored “on the road” until he was enrolled in a private boy’s school (Dowling Prep) in Des Moines, Iowa. He then went on to St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa and studied speech and drama. He started his broadcasting career in the Quad Cities as a rock n’ roll disc jockey.
After a stint in the Army (where he entertained the troops), members of his theatrical group were thinking of going to Phoenix, so he tagged along. Before long, as Pat himself says, he was “immediately enchanted with the whole area and I started work at Channel 5 as an announcer.”
The planets must have been aligned one day when Wallace and Ladmo needed a third guy for a skit, and Pat (who had enjoyed watching the show in the studio)