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| Born | Edwin Jack Fisher August 10, 1928 |
| Died | September 22, 2010 (aged 82) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Cypress Lawn Memorial Park |
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| Years active | 1948–2010 |
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| Genres | Traditional pop |
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Edwin Jack Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American singer and actor. He was one of the most popular artists during the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show, The Eddie Fisher Show.[1] Actress Elizabeth Taylor was best friends with Fisher's first wife, actress Debbie Reynolds. The couple divorced in 1959 when it was revealed shortly after Taylor's third husband, Mike Todd, was killed in a plane crash, that Fisher had been having an affair with her. The affair was a great public scandal, which led to the cancellation of Eddie Fisher's television show.[2] Fisher and Taylor married that same year. The scandalous affair that Fisher and Taylor had been having while each was already married was widely reported and brought unfavorable publicity to both Fisher and Taylor. Approximately five years later, he and Taylor divorced and he later married Connie Stevens. Fisher is the father of Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher, whose mother is Reynolds, and the father of Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, whose mother is Stevens.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (March 1, 2010). Joel Whitburn's Top 40 Pop Singles (12th ed.). Record Research. ISBN 978-0-8982-0180-2.
- ^ Foster, James F. (February 11, 2014). The Fabulous Fifties. Page Publishing Inc. ISBN 9781634172073.