Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Game show producer and presenter                          

Selected Works:

Shows:

$1.98 Beauty Show
The Bobby Vinton Show
Camouflage
The Chuck Barris Rah-Rah Show
Cop-Out - unsold pilot
The Dating Game
Dream Girl of '67
Family Game
The Game Game
The Gong Show
How's Your Mother-In-Law?
The Newlywed Game
Operation Entertainment
The Parent Game
People Pickers - unsold pilot
Three's a Crowd
Treasure Hunt/The New Treasure Hunt
Your Hit Parade - CBS, 1974

Discography:

Barris composed music and released them on the following 45 rpm records. Songs with an asterisk - * are songs not composed by Barris, yet featured on the recordings:
Too Rich / I Know A Child - Capital Records
Baja California / *Donnie - Dot Records
Why Me Oh Lord / Sometimes It Just Doesn't Pay To Get Up - MCA Records.

Barris also composed the following songs - with performer, who performed the music first, listed on each. The first two songs were released on "Swan" 45rpm records, and the third released on a "Decca" LP record:
Summertime Guy - Eddie Rambeau; an instrumental version of this song was used as the theme for The Newlywed Game.

Palisades Park - Freddy Cannon
Love Sickness - Milton Delugg

In 1973, Barris released an LP of television game show music called "Chuck Barris Presents Themes From TV Game Shows" - Friends Records. All tracks are instrumentals and are arranged by Tom Scott, Mike Barone, and Dale Oehler. The tracks for the LP, as listed from the back of the LP jacket, are as follows:
Side 1
Dating Game Theme - January/CBP Music, Inc. BMI Chuck Barris/David Mook
Dating Game Closing Theme - Little Rosie
Newlywed Game Theme
Treasure Hunt Theme
True Grit - Winners Theme - Bernstein Famous Music ASCAP
Treasure Hunt Losers Theme
People Pickers Theme - Pretty Maidens
Side 2
Operation Entertainment Theme - Road Of Love
Family Game Theme - Too Rich
Cop-Out Theme - Little Russian Song
Mother-In-Law Theme - Mother Trucker
Parent Game Theme - Baja California
Dream Girl Theme - Hunk Of Love

Books:

You and Me, Babe - 1974
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - 1984
The Game Show King - 1993
Bad Grass Never Dies - 2004
The Big Question - 2007
Who Killed Art Deco? - 2009                          

Wife one Lyn Levy - 1957 - 1976 - divorced, one child, Delia
Wife two Robin Altman - 1980 - 1999 - divorced
Wife three Mary - 2000 - present                          

Barris claimed to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency - CIA, as an assassin in the 1960s and the 1970s.

A film adaptation of the book was made in 2002, directed by George Clooney.

The movie depicted Barris as being responsible for 33 killings.

CIA spokesman Paul Nowack said Barris' assertions that he worked for the spy agency "are ridiculous. It's absolutely not true."