Wink Martindale, beloved host of Hit game Show Like ‘gambit’ and ‘Tic-Tac-Dough’ died at the age of 91. Veteran TV present was the main word Us Screens, hosting on the first recorded television interviews with Elvis Presley.
Martindale died on Tuesday, 15. April, his publicistic Brian Mayses said, on Eisenhower’s health in Rancho Mirage. Being struggled with lymphoma for a year.
Mayes He told the press that Martindale “did pretty good until a few weeks.”
The TV host was one of the heavy weight of American television. Blackjack-based quiz shows “gambit” debitoran on the same day in September 1972. year, as “price is correct” with Bob Barker and ‘Joker’s wild’ with Jack Barry.
Martindale is in his memory 2000. Wink in life ‘: “From the day he hit the air,” Gambit “wrote the winner, and taught me the basic tenant of any really successful show: kiss!
“As well as playing old maids as a child, everyone knows how to play 21, ie. Blackjack.”
‘Gambit’ is beating the competition at the NBC and ABC for more than two years. But the new exhibition debuted in 1975. at the NBC called the wheel of wealth. “Until December 1976.” Gambit “was out of the air and the” pitch of wealth “became an institution that is still going strong today.
Martindale bounced in 1978. year with “Tic-Tac-Dough”, a game of classic X and O on CBS that ran until 1985. years.
“I left the valley overnight in the Penthouse,” he wrote.
He chaired the winning array of 88 games Navy Lt. Thom McKee, who earned over $ 300,000 in cash and awards that included eight cars, three sailboats and 16 holiday trips. Then McKee’s victory was a record for a game competitor.
“I like working with competitors, interacting with the audience and to a certain extent, looking at the changes of life,” Martindale wrote. “Victory a lot of money can lead to that happen.”
Martindale wrote that the producer Dan Enright once said that in seven years the hosted “Tic-Tac-Dough” gave over $ 7 million in cash and awards.
Martindale said that many years as Radio DJ was helpful as a game as he played as if he were working on permanent ad-libs and he learned to handle almost any situation in the moment. He estimated that the host is almost two dozen plays shows during his career.
Martindale wrote in his memo that the question that was most often asked “Did he wink your real name?” Others was “How did you get into the game shows?”
He had his nickname from a childhood friend. Martindale is not in relation to the University of Michigan Don Martindale Defense, whose colleagues teammates are noticed by setting it because of his / way.
Winston Conrad Martindale 4. December 1933. in Jackson, Tennessee, he loved working from childhood and would read the content of commercials in Lifetin and the age of 6 years.
He started his career as a jockey disk at the age of 17 in the WPP in his hometown, earned $ 25 per week.
After moving to WTJS, he was engaged in the double salary of Jackson’s only other cells, WDXI. Next is in the morning in WHBQ in Memphis while attending the Memphis state. He was married and father two girls when he graduated in 1957. years.
Martindale was in the studio, although he did not work in the air that night, when the first Presley Record “that’s fine” on Whbq 8. July 1954. Years.
Martindale approached the DJ Dewey Phillips, who gave Preley by playing his song, to ask him too much to do a joint interview at Martindale TV show in 1956. Years. Until then, Presley became a big star and agreed to the phenomenon.
Martindale and Presley remained in contact during the year, and in 1959. He was performed by Trans-Atlantic telephone conversation with Presley, who was in the army in Germany. Martindalena Second wife, Sandy, is in short, Presleyel after meeting him on the set “GI Blues” in 1960. years.
1959. Martindale moved to Los Angeles to host the morning shows at KHJ. In the same year, he reached 7 in Palbon Hot 100 charts with a “deck of cards” cover, which sold over a million copies. He performed the speaking word about the war story with the religious redel on the “Ed Sullivan Show”.
“I could easily think,” Wow, this is easy! I come here, go to Radio and TV, make a record and everyone wants to buy it! “He wrote.” Even if I had fun such thoughts, they soon scattered. I learned at the consequence that what happened to me was far from ordinary. “
A year later he moved to the morning show in Krla and Kfwb in 1962. years. Among his many other gigas, two separate protects in the KMPC, owned by the Geno’s genes.
His first network job was on the NBC “What is this song?” Where he was credited to him as a winner of Martindale from 1964-65.
Later, he hosted two Chuck Barris-produced shows in ABC: “Dream Girl ’67” and “How is your mother-in-law?” The latter lasted only 13 weeks before canceled.
“I was a joke said he came and went so fast, it seemed more like 13 minutes!” Martindale wrote, explaining that it was the worst show of his career.
Martindale was later hosting the revival of “gambit” based on Las Vegas from 1980-81.
He formed his own production company, Wink Martindale Enterprises, develop and produce their emissions games. His first endeavor was “title Šeser”, co-production with Mervu Griffin, which debuted in 1985. and canceled after one season. His next show, “Stumpers Bumper”, ran on American and Canadian television since 1987-1990.
The host is “debt” since 1996-98 on the lifelong cable and “Instant Secall” on GSN in 2010. years.
Martindale returned to his radio roots in 2012. as the host of National Syndicated “100 greatest Christmas hits of all time”. 2021. He was hosted by the Syndicated Program “History of Rock” N “Rola”.
In 2017. Martindale appeared in the KFC ad campaign with a Rob Lowe actor.
He survived him sandy, his other wife 49, and the children of Lisa, Madelyn, Laura and Wink Jr. They are from their first marriages that ended in divorce in 1972. years.