Michael Gregory Rowe (born March 18, 1962) is an American actor known as a television host and narrator. He is known for his work on the Discovery Channel Gross Jobs series and the CNN series Someone Must Do It . He also hosts The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe podcast, which he describes as "a short story specifically designed for curious minds annoyed with short attention spans". He hosted a series produced for Facebook called Restore Favor where he found people doing good deeds and doing something for them in return. Rowe has narrated the programs on the Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, and National Geographic Channels such as Deadlyest Catch, How the Universe Works, and Sunday Sharks . He has appeared in advertisements for companies like Ford Motor Company.
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Rowe was born in Baltimore, Maryland to John and Peggy Rowe, both of whom were teachers. He stated in the ad for Dirty Jobs that the show was a tribute to his father and grandfather. He became Eagle Scout in 1979 at Troop 16 in Baltimore, and he read aloud to students at Maryland School for the Blind during his service project for Eagle Scout. He cites this as one of the reasons that he became interested in telling and writing. In June 2012, Rowe was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Flight Attendant by the Boy Scouts of America.
Rowe attends the Kenwood Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, whose parents are still often present. He graduated from Overlea High School in 1980, where he excelled in the theater and sang under the director of the choir Freddie King, which Rowe credits for his interest in performing. He then studied at Essex Community College. He was named Honorary Honorary Member of the Barbershop Harmony Society on July 8, 2017 at the International Society convention in Las Vegas. In 1985, he graduated from Towson University with a degree in communication studies.
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Television career
As host
Rowe has hosted On-Air TV for American Airlines, No Relationship for FX, and New York Expeditions for PBS.
Starting in the mid-1980s, Rowe hosted Your New House for WJZ-TV in Baltimore for 15 years.
In the early 1990s, Rowe hosted an active Radio CD-ROM â„¢ radioactive game (as "Bobby Arpeggio") due to a malfunctioning Sanctuary Forest. During the same period, he became an on-air host for QVC's home-shopping TV network. In a 2006 interview, Rowe told how he got a job at QVC: "I was at the opera at the time.I walked across the street with a friend during the show We dressed up like Vikings and we drank the TV playing to QVC.... My friend is charging $ 100. I can not call back So I dropped the audition and got a job in place Basically I turned everything into my own stupid Letterman David show I made fun of callers and made fun of the product. "Rowe claims that QVC fired him three times. When told in the 2008 episode Gross Jobs that the pumpkin being worked on will be sold through QVC, he says he is familiar with the company and starts promoting advertising for them.
In the 1990s, Rowe organized an instructional Instructional Guide for PrimeStar satellite television service that was already dead.
In 2002, Rowe hosted the Worst Scenario for FFB.
From 2001 to 2004, Rowe hosted The Most for The History Channel. From 2001 to 2005, Rowe hosted the Evening Magazine on KPIX-TV in San Francisco. During this time, he appeared in a news segment called "Somebody's Gotta Do It", profiles of unpleasant professions; this concept then develops into Dirty Work . The first Rowe works with Discovery Channel includes a trip to the Golden Mummic Valley to host Egypt Week Live! , where he explored the ancient tombs with Dr. Zahi Hawass, an Egyptian archaeologist.
In September 2012, Rowe held a three-part series of How to Booze Built America on Discovery Channel.
CNN announced on April 10, 2014, that Rowe will host the new "Original Series", which begins in the 2014 Autumn lineup. Rowe highlights "unique individuals" in their passionate endeavors respectively, whether it's a job, a hobby or a fanaticism. Someone Must Do It is produced by Craig Piligian's Pilgrim Studios.
As narrator
In addition to the hosting program, Rowe has a broad background as a narrator. His work with Discovery Channel includes telling American Chopper, Hot Rod America, Deadlyest Catch , Wild Pacific , and > Ghost Lab , as well as other specials and Discovery series such as How the Universe Works , and Syfy's Ghost Hunters . Rowe has been hosting the annual annual Shark Week in 2006 and 2008, along with the special hosting You Spoof Discovery , a special amateur parody video that mocks some popular series songs in lineup Discovery Channel. Rowe is currently the narrator for the National Geographic Channel Wicked Tuna series.
Rowe is a big fan of radio broadcaster Paul Harvey.
Rowe was originally tapped to host the Discovery Channel Deadliest Catch, a show about fishing for crabs in the Bering Sea, and recorded footage on several other crab ships in addition to telling the series. When Dirty Jobs was picked up by Discovery, he was told to choose which show he wanted to show on the screen. Rowe claims that he was told by Discovery that the show will be aired again the same night: "We can not ask you to tell the story of six fishermen who died in front of the camera and make a fart joke with your arm in the cow's ass". Rowe chose to host the Gross Jobs and recounts Killed Kill ; Her recordings on the boat were not used in the series, although she appeared at the end of the Deadliest Catch season, interviewing the ship's captain. Rowe organizes events related to life on the Bering Sea, miniseries 2007, After the Catch , performances that resume after each season Deadlyest Catch .
Other narrative works by Rowe include Mystery Diagnosis , Drydock: Reborn Cruise Ship , South Steel , Powertool Drag Racing , Scavengers Rock (Animal Planet) , Airplane Repo and opening Ghost Hunter , Syfy series from American Chopper producer , Rowe has done voiceover work for reality television show The Ultimate Fighter and NASCAR pre-race show for Chase 2009 on ESPN.
From December 21, 2009 through June 2012, Rowe is a broadcaster on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer .
He hosts a podcast named The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe , in partnership with Red Seat Ventures.
Add-ons
On October 7, 2007, Rowe appeared on Fox's American Dad! as the voice of a meter assistant.
Rowe appeared on an episode of Sesame Street (Season 39) in a segment called "Dirtiest Work With Mike Rowe", which aired on October 13, 2008. Rowe visited Sesame Street in search of the dirtiest, belongs to Oscar. Rowe has to do all the things Oscar does. His job includes finding and counting smelly cheese, sorting out the garbage, and giving his pet pig, Spot, mud bath. For Oscar, Rowe did not want to stop, because he was having too much fun.
Mike Rowe spoke with over 70,000 scouts, leaders, and visitors at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree at Fort AP Hill, Virginia, and the second at the 2013 National Scout Jamboree at the Bechtel Summit. Rowe, Eagle Scout, speaks to the crowd about the importance of physical and mental hygiene, but stresses the need for all the scouts to become dirty.
In 2012, Rowe appeared on the sitcom ABC episode Last Man Standing playing the role of Jim Baxter, brother of Tim Allen's character.
In June 2013, Mike Rowe spoke to delegates at the 49th National Leadership and Skills Conference for SkillsUSA in Kansas City, Missouri. He spoke to a crowd of 15,000 at Kemper Arena about the importance of "Working Smart and Difficult".
In 2017, Rowe becomes a guest on the premiere episode of Old House It . The first project of the spotlight this season "Next Generation", an organization that trains young people to learn about building trading. Rowe, through the "mikeroweWORKS" foundation and the people of "The Old House" support this initiative.
As pitchman
In 1998, Rowe was a television spokesperson for Epic Pharmacy, an independent pharmacy association in Baltimore.
Beginning in March 2007, he was featured in several Ford Motor Company F-Series truck ads, which were presented in a style similar to Dirty Jobs , including one for Ford Sync. In the summer of 2009, he appeared in an ad for Ford and Lincoln-Mercury that used the tagline: "Why Ford. Why Now."
In 2008, Rowe partnered with W. W. Grainger, a Chicago-based Fortune 500 industrial supply company.
In 2010, Rowe appeared on the internet point for the combined Motorola iDEN radio/mobile phone, explaining that the phones were used "by real people, for real jobs" because they were used for Gross Applications -type.
In 2010, Rowe partnered with Lee Premium Select Jeans and appeared in television spots wearing jeans that "made my butt look good".
On July 26, 2010, Rowe became the spokesperson for Caterpillar. Rowe will work with dealers and customers "to get a real-world perspective on their work".
In 2011, Rowe appeared with her parents in television venues for Viva paper towels.
In 2012, Rowe becomes a Novartis animal health spokesperson to educate pet owners about fleas. This campaign is called "Gross Truth about Ticks".
Trade activism
On Labor Day 2008, Rowe launched a website, mikeroweWORKS.com, which focuses on the decline of blue collar trade and the collapsed infrastructure conditions. A trading resource center has been launched and provides information, resources, and forums for people interested in learning about, or pursue a career in, trading, and a new blog aggregator for trade and construction industry called "Trades Hub", which is launched in April 2011.
On September 19, 2010, Mike Rowe and the Association of Equipment Manufacturers started a campaign called "I Make America". The campaign aims to create jobs in the manufacturing sector by encouraging infrastructure investment and export agreements. The group believes that this will improve the economy and global competitiveness of the United States.
In May 2011, Rowe testified on this issue before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transport.
Mike Rowe has donated video content to Alabama's Construction Industry workers recruitment campaign, GoBuildAlabama.com, culminating in the Iron Bowl-themed commercial broadcast at local CBS affiliates over Thanksgiving weekend 2010.
Rowe sent a letter to President Obama at the start of his first-term offer to help promote the 3 million "ready-prepared" jobs promised during the campaign, suspecting it might be a difficult sale, "given the country's current relationship with the shovel." He did not receive a reply. During the 2012 presidential election, Rowe contacted GOP candidate Mitt Romney and appeared with him on September 26, 2012, at a campaign event in Ohio. "He's not partisan, he's not here to support me, he's not here to add support for one campaign or the other," Romney said of his guest. "He's here to talk about his ideas about how to help America create more jobs."
In the spring of 2013, mikeroweWORKS launched its newest initiative, Highly Disconnected. Rowe stated, "many of the best opportunities available today require skills, not diplomas.The purpose of this site is to promote the simple truth." While in high school in 1979, Rowe saw a poster in his supervising counselor's office that read "Work Smart, Not Hard". He hates it so much, he turns it into "Work Smart AND Hard"; He now prints such posters and wants them hanging around the country to get people to change the way hard work is felt.
Rowe describes herself as a cheerleader for blue-collar workers and white-collar workers, hoping to promote individual initiative and positive thinking throughout the US economy. He has stated that he feels alienated from the current US political system given that both business owners and ordinary workers accept, in his opinion, unfair criticism, with problems such as geographical discrepancies and lack of job training that lead to unemployment. Rowe is the owner of weapons and supporters of the 2nd US Amendment; However, he is not a member of the National Rifle Association or similar group.
Personal life
Rowe sang professionally with the Baltimore Opera. She lives in San Francisco, California. By 2016, he was the subject of a baseless rumor describing his death, leading him to quote a famous phrase attributed to Mark Twain: "The report of my death is greatly exaggerated."
Movieography
Television
See also
- The Critique of Choice Television Award for Best Host Realization Event
References
External links
- Official website
- Mike Rowe on IMDb
- Mike Rowe at TED
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