Posted on 08/16/2024 4:54:31 PM PDT by Morgana
Host and actor Peter Marshall has died aged 98 from kidney failure.
The former Hollywood Squares host passed away Thursday at his home in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, publicist Harlan Boll said.
He was the beloved game show host on more than 5,000 episodes of the iconic NBC show from 1966 to 1981.
'It was the easiest thing I've ever done in show business,' Marshall said in a 2010 interview for the Archive of American Television. 'I walked in, said `Hello stars,' I read questions and laughed. And it paid very well.'
Hollywood Squares would become an American cultural institution and make Marshall a household name.
It would win four Daytime Emmys for outstanding game show during his run and spawned dozens of international versions and several U.S. reboots.
The show attracted a range of top stars as occasional guests, including Aretha Franklin, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Ed Asner and Janet Leigh.
He was married three times, the last to Laurie Stewart in 1989. The couple survived a bout with COVID-19 early in 2021. He was hospitalized for several weeks.
His four kids include son Pete LaCock, a professional baseball player for the Chicago Cubs and Kansas City Royals. Marshall is also survived by daughters Suzanne and Jaime, son David, 12 grandchildren, and nine great-great grandchildren.
He had toured with big bands starting as a teenager, had been a part of two comedy teams that appeared in nightclubs and on television, appeared in movies as a contract player for Twentieth Century Fox, and had sung in several Broadway musicals when the opportunity came up after Bert Parks, who hosted the pilot, bowed out.
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