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08-15-2024, 03:44 PM
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/peter-marshall-dead-hollywood-squares-1235975744/amp/
Peter Marshall, who for 15 years was best known as the original Master of the hit '60s TV Game Show "Hollywood Squares," has died today of Kidney Failure at age 98 at his Encino, California, home, according to fellow Game Show legend Wink Martindale's Facebook page.
Born on March 30, 1926 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Ralph Pierre LaCock was the younger of 2 children (and only boy), including actress Joanne Dru, born to a pharmacist dad who died when Peter was 10 and Joanne was a teenager, after which Peter was raised by his Grandma in nearby Huntington, West Virginia.
With Tommy Noonan, after adopting the stage name Peter Marshall, he became known as half of the comedy duo Noonan and Marshall after moving to New York at age 14 to be with his mother and sister Joanne while Peter was an aspiring singer working as an usher at the Paramount Theater.
He eventually got a job working as an NBC network page while an aspiring actor and singer before turning 18, during which time he worked behind-the-scenes on the Ralph Edwards created Game Show "Truth or Consequences."
In 1966, after Tommy Noonan died of Brain Cancer, Peter Marshall beat out Dan Rowan (futurely of "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In") to become the original Host of "Hollywood Squares," a new Daytime Network Game Show which aired on NBC from October 17, 1966 - June 20, 1980, after which it aired for another full year in Syndication until 1981 in addition to airing 8 months in prime-time on NBC in 1968; the show has seen countless incarnations, including a 3-year 1986-1989 Syndicated run hosted by John Davidson and produced by Orion Television (now owned by MGM Amazon Studios, which also owns the original series via Merrill Heatter & Bob Quigley Productions), a 1998-2004 run hosted by Tom Bergeron (produced by Sony Pictures Television and KingWorld Productions, Inc.) and an upcoming 2025 CBS Primetime Revival set to debut after the New Year 2025.
Among Peter's survivors include his son, Pierre LaCock, Jr., a Retired Pro Baseball Player, from his first marriage, and his wife of 35 years, Laurie.
03/30/1926 - 08/15/2024
Peter Marshall, who for 15 years was best known as the original Master of the hit '60s TV Game Show "Hollywood Squares," has died today of Kidney Failure at age 98 at his Encino, California, home, according to fellow Game Show legend Wink Martindale's Facebook page.
Born on March 30, 1926 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Ralph Pierre LaCock was the younger of 2 children (and only boy), including actress Joanne Dru, born to a pharmacist dad who died when Peter was 10 and Joanne was a teenager, after which Peter was raised by his Grandma in nearby Huntington, West Virginia.
With Tommy Noonan, after adopting the stage name Peter Marshall, he became known as half of the comedy duo Noonan and Marshall after moving to New York at age 14 to be with his mother and sister Joanne while Peter was an aspiring singer working as an usher at the Paramount Theater.
He eventually got a job working as an NBC network page while an aspiring actor and singer before turning 18, during which time he worked behind-the-scenes on the Ralph Edwards created Game Show "Truth or Consequences."
In 1966, after Tommy Noonan died of Brain Cancer, Peter Marshall beat out Dan Rowan (futurely of "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In") to become the original Host of "Hollywood Squares," a new Daytime Network Game Show which aired on NBC from October 17, 1966 - June 20, 1980, after which it aired for another full year in Syndication until 1981 in addition to airing 8 months in prime-time on NBC in 1968; the show has seen countless incarnations, including a 3-year 1986-1989 Syndicated run hosted by John Davidson and produced by Orion Television (now owned by MGM Amazon Studios, which also owns the original series via Merrill Heatter & Bob Quigley Productions), a 1998-2004 run hosted by Tom Bergeron (produced by Sony Pictures Television and KingWorld Productions, Inc.) and an upcoming 2025 CBS Primetime Revival set to debut after the New Year 2025.
Among Peter's survivors include his son, Pierre LaCock, Jr., a Retired Pro Baseball Player, from his first marriage, and his wife of 35 years, Laurie.
03/30/1926 - 08/15/2024