- First met Marlo Thomas when she was a guest on his show during the seventies. Children with his first wife: Michael, Kevin, Daniel, Jim and Mary Rose.
- Son-in-law of actor/producer Danny Thomas and Rose Marie Mantell Thomas.
- Graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
- In 1994 he succeeded in getting permission from a convicted murderer to film the murderer's legal execution in the gas chamber. The courts, however, refused to give the FCC permission to air the event.
- 1953 graduate of St. Edward High School, located in Lakewood, Ohio.
- Release of his DVD: Body of War" by Phil with Ellen Spiro. (2008)
- Supporting anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and is protesting the Iraq war. (September 2005)
- Brother-in-law of producer Tony Thomas and Terre Thomas.
- Grandfather of Connor Donahue.
- Release of the book, "That Girl and Phil: An Insider Tells What Life is Really Like in the Marlo Thomas/Phil Donahue Household" by Desmond Atholl and Michael Cherkinian. (1990)
- Release of his book, "Donahue, My Own Story". (1979)
- His talk show on MSNBC, Donahue (2002), has been canceled [March 2003].
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