“Hollywood Squares” Host Peter Marshall Dies At 98

The Hollywood Reporter reports:

Peter Marshall, the velvety-voiced host who presided over NBC’s celebrity-filled game show The Hollywood Squares for 16 years, died Thursday. He was 98.

Marshall, an accomplished singer who also was a leading man on Broadway and one-half of a popular comedy team before embarking on his game-show gig, died of kidney failure at his Encino home, his family announced.

The pride of West Virginia hosted some 6,000 episodes of The Hollywood Squares from 1966 through 1981, winning four Daytime Emmy Awards. Marshall often worked just one day a week, when he taped five shows. “It was the easiest job I ever had, and I never rehearsed,” he said.

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Peter Marshall, the multiple Emmy Award-winning host of the ’70s game show “Hollywood Squares,” passed Thursday of kidney failure, his agent Harlan Boll told TheWrap.

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Sad to hear of the passing of Peter Marshall. Most folks don’t realize that he took the gig hosting THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES–which he didn’t want–primarily because he was told who’d get the job if he passed.

We should all have friends like Peter Marshall. pic.twitter.com/eFp0WsNt7K

— Ford Gilmore (@fordgilmore) August 15, 2024