Larry King's career in pictures

2010: Larry King speaks during the Larry King Live: Disaster in the Gulf Telethon held at CNN LA
Photograph: Jordan Strauss/WireImage.com

King in the 1980s with a microphone bearing the logo of the Mutual Radio Network, for which he hosted a successful late-night phone-in from 1978 to 1984
Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features

1986: King and Rudolph Giuliani – then an increasingly high-profile district attorney, later mayor of New York
Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage

1989: King as a guest on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno – then merely a stand-in for Johnny Carson
Photograph: NBCUPHOTOBANK/Rex Features

1992: King with President George HW Bush
Photograph: Pat Sullivan/AP

1994: Marlon Brando plants a kiss on King during the taping of a show at Brando's house in Coldwater Canyon
Photograph: Joan Adlen Photography/Getty Images

1995: King is crowned King of Brooklyn at the Welcome Back Festival in New York
Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

2000: King moderates a Republican presidential debate between John McCain, Alan Keyes and George W Bush
Photograph: Paul Richards/AFP

2002: King with Heather Mills McCartney
Photograph: Bill Bernstein/AP

2002: King doused with powder – for a comedy sketch – at the 54th annual Emmy Awards
Photograph: Corbis

2003: Elizabeth Taylor shows King a diamond ring from her marriage to Richard Burton
Photograph: CNN/Getty Images

2003: Tom Cruise, promoting The Last Samurai, teaches King how to use a sword
Photograph: Chris Pizzello/WireImage

2005: King with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and his three girlfriends Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson
Photograph: Rose M Prouser/AFP

2006: King and his wife Shawn arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party
Photograph: Phil McCarten/Corbis

2006: King interviewing W Mark Felt, the man known as 'Deep Throat', the key source for Washington Post reporters during the Watergate investigation
Photograph: AFP

2007: King speaks to Barack Obama after a Democratic presidential primary debate
Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP

2007: Oprah Winfrey joins King for his 50th anniversary
Photograph: Michael Caulfield/WireImage

2007: Paris Hilton talks to King, her first TV interview since her release from jail for violating probation terms on a drink-driving conviction
Photograph: Rex Features

2008: King unveils the sign at Larry King Square, outside the CNN building in Hollywood
Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

2010: Cast, crew and volunteers pose during the Larry King Live: Disaster in the Gulf Telethon
Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Getty Images