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Wink Martindale — the game show host known for helming “Tic-Tac-Dough,” “High Rollers” and “Gambit” — has died. He was 91. A spokesperson for Martindale’s family revealed that ...
Legendary game show host Wink Martindale, who helmed Tic-Tag-Dough, High Rollers and Gambit, died at the age of 91 in Rancho Mirage, California on Tuesday (April 15), a spokesperson for his family ...
The former “Gambit” and “Tic-Tac-Dough” game show host died Tuesday in California after a yearlong battle with lymphoma, according to a release from his publicist Brian Mayes. Martindale ...
Ben Stiller also thanked Martindale for his work, writing, “A television institution for so many years. What a true pro game show host.” ...
Wink Martindale — best known as the host of multiple well-known game shows in the 1950s and ’70s — has died at age 91, his family confirmed to Deadline on Tuesday, April 15. Though the ...
Richard Shotwell/AP Share LOS ANGELES — Wink Martindale, the genial host of such hit game shows as “Gambit” and “Tic-Tac-Dough” who also did one of the first recorded television ...
After Martindale signed to host his first national TV game show in 1964, NBC’s head of daytime programming felt that the name Wink sounded too juvenile. So, for its nearly one-year run ...
Martindale said he became interested in hosting a TV game show in 1965 when he learned that Password‘s Allen Ludden would “go in two days a week and tape five shows one day and five shows the ...
LOS ANGELES — Wink Martindale, the charismatic television personality whose name became nearly synonymous with American game shows during his decades-long career, died Sunday in Rancho Mirage ...
Legendary TV game show host Wink Martindale has died. He was 91. No cause of death was reported. The Los Angeles Times called Martindale “the kind of the television game show,” and noted his w ...
Legendary game show host Wink Martindale has died, Fox News Digital confirmed. He was 91. Martindale, who was surrounded by family, including his wife Sandra, at the time of his death, had a 74 ...