Garth Ancier

• Birthplace: Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
• Birthday: September 3, 1957

This former programming wunderkind took some licks as the Fox network's first programming head, then bounced back as executive producer of "Ricki Lake", the syndicated talk show that was second to "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in the daytime derby for three years. Garth Ancier has seemed singularly focused and devoted to television, while earning the potential epitaph: "He built networks."

Raised in Princeton, NJ (where he also attended college), Ancier was a teenager when he began working as a radio reporter for …more