Tribute To Peter Marshall Posted on August 23, 2024 at 06:15:48 PM by TV Geezer
I am a game-show junkie. One of my favorite game shows is Match Game. As a tribute to Peter Marshall today, The Game Show Network showed two 1980 episodes of MG, when Marshall was a guest.
“Ralph Pierre LaCock (March 30, 1926 – August 15, 2024), better known by his stage name Peter Marshall, was an American game show host, television and radio personality, singer, and actor. He was the original host of The Hollywood Squares from 1966 to 1981 and had almost fifty television, movie, and Broadway credits.
Marshall was given his stage name by John Robert Powers. Powers had chosen the last name Marshall for Peter's sister (who later chose to use Joanne Dru instead), and Peter adopted it early in his career and paired it with an anglicized version of his middle name.
Personal life and death
Marshall married his third wife, Laurie Stewart, on Saturday, August 19, 1989, and had four children and two stepchildren from his previous marriages.. He had a home in Palm Desert, California.[35] His son Pete is a former Major League Baseball player. The retired first baseman spent nine years playing for the Chicago Cubs and Kansas City Royals.
Marshall died of kidney failure at his home in Encino, Los Angeles, California, on August 15, 2024, at the age of 98.”