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Paul Edward Lynde (/ l ɪ n d /; June 13, 1926 – January 10, 1982) [1] [2] was an American comedian, actor and game show panelist. A character actor with a distinctively campy and snarky persona that often poked fun at his closeted homosexuality, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched, the befuddled father Harry MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie and a regular "center square ...
Hollywood Squares (originally The Hollywood Squares) is an American game show [1][2][3][4] in which two contestants compete in a game of tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The show piloted on NBC in 1965 and the regular series debuted in 1966 on the same network. The board for the game is a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each ...
Much like fellow actor and game-show regular Paul Lynde of the same era, despite Reilly's off-camera silence, he gave signals on-camera of a campy persona. In many episodes of Match Game, he lampooned himself by briefly affecting "YO!" in a deep voice, using the nickname "Chuck", and self-consciously describing how "butch" he was.
Hollywood Squares originally aired from 1966 to 1980 on NBC, where it was hosted by Peter Marshall, with actor Paul Lynde regularly occupying the coveted center square. The show has been rebooted ...
August 15, 2024 at 1:27 PM. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Marshall, the actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares,” has ...
Will Dunham. August 15, 2024 at 3:18 PM. By Will Dunham. (Reuters) - Peter Marshall, the cheery actor, singer and nightclub comedian who became one of America's best-known game show hosts on the ...
Peter Marshall (entertainer) Ralph Pierre LaCock (March 30, 1926 – August 15, 2024), better known by his stage name Peter Marshall, was an American game show host, television and radio personality, singer, and actor. He was the original host of The Hollywood Squares from 1966 to 1981 and had almost fifty television, movie, and Broadway credits.
Website. Official website. Davidson and Sally Field on TV's The Girl with Something Extra (1973) John Hamilton Davidson[1] (born December 13, 1941) [2] is an American actor, singer, and game show host known for hosting That's Incredible!, Time Machine, and Hollywood Squares in the 1980s, and a revival of The $100,000 Pyramid in 1991.