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Known for. First top prize winner on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. John Carpenter (born December 24, 1967 [1]) is an American game show contestant and Internal Revenue Service agent. He is the twelfth highest-earning American game show contestant of all time.
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- First top prize winner on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
- January 1968 (age 55), Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Mit dem Gewinn von 1 Million US-Dollar hielt Carpenter den Rekord der höchsten im US-amerikanischen Fernsehen erzielten Spielsumme. Er ist zudem der erste Millionengewinner eines Who-Wants-to-Be-a-Millionaire?-Formats. Durch seinen Sieg wurde er international bekannt und trat später in mehreren Talkshows und Quizsendungen auf.
27. Juli 2020 · As fans look back on the iconic show, the infamous clip of John Carpenter winning $1 million has resurfaced. So, what happened to Carpenter after winning all that cash? Regis Philbin, Debbie...
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John Carpenter, a 31 year-old Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent from Hamden, Connecticut, is best known for becoming the first top prize winner on the U.S. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and the first ever Top Prize Winner in the entire Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? franchise. On...
21.5K subscribers. 7.9M views 12 years ago. ...more. Six months after becoming the first Millionaire in the show's history, John Carpenter returned for a special "Champions Edition" of the...
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On November 18th 1999, a man made television history by becoming the first person to win the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”. Overnight he became a...
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Vor 6 Tagen · After John Carpenter won the first million-dollar prize on the game show 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' in November 1999, PEOPLE sat down with him to hear all about how how his life had...
