Louie Anderson (actor)

Louis Perry Anderson (March 24, 1953 - January 21, 2022) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author and game show host. Louie created the cartoon series Life with Louie and has written four books, including Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too, which was published in 2018. He was the initial host of the third revival of the game show Family Feud from 1999 to 2002.

For his performance on the FX comedy television series Baskets, Louie received three consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nominations and won once in 2016.

Louie performed a stand-up show called Louie: Larger Than Life in Las Vegas, Nevada from 2003 through 2012. The show originated at the Union Plaza hotel downtown, before moving to Excalibur, South Point, and Palace Station hotels.

Early life
Louie was born and raised in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the son of Ora Sherman (née Prouty) and Andy Andrew Mortimer Anderson. Louie is the second youngest of 11 children in his family. In a 2016 interview on WTF with Marc Maron, Louie revealed that his mother actually gave birth to 16 children, but five of them—the first baby and then two sets of twins—died in childbirth. Anderson described his father as "abusive."

Anderson attended Johnson Senior High in Saint Paul.

Personal life
In 1985, Anderson married his high school sweetheart. The marriage only lasted four weeks.

Health and death
In 2003, Anderson underwent two successful heart procedures.

On January 18, 2022, it was announced that Anderson had been hospitalized in Las Vegas for large B-cell lymphoma. He died of complications from the cancer three days later, on January 21, at the age of 68.