- Bill Leyden
Bill Leyden (died
March 11 ,1970 ) was a televisiongame show host and announcer who emceed aix game shows, including "It Could Be You " (1956-62), "Your First Impression " (1962-64), and "You're Putting Me On " (1969). In addition, he hosted movies onKTTV , and in fact played small roles in a handful of motion pictures, includingJerry Lewis ' "The Patsy" (1964).During his run on "It Could Be You", Leyden was touted by announcer
Wendell Niles as "the man who will amaze you with what he knows about you", [http://outtacontext.com/life/notes/loc/nbctranscript.html] partly because Leyden was often helped onstage and in the audience by well-concealedTelePrompter s and "a team of spies and operatives" who investigated potential contestants. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2342/is_2_35/ai_97074190/pg_10]Although he was an extremely popular, both in front of the camera and behind the microphone, Leyden's chronic health problems limited his on-screen work in the latter half of the 1960s (
Bill Cullen andLarry Blyden filled in for Leyden on "You're Putting Me On", with Blyden becoming the permanent host of the show when Leyden suffered a brain hemorrhage in September 1969).Before his first game show, Leyden was announcer for the syndicated radio series "The
Liberace Program" (1954-55). For his contributions on television, he has a star on theHollywood Walk of Fame . According to disk jockey listings found in Variety, he was an announcer at KMPC, Los Angeles in 1947.Game shows
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You're Putting Me On (1969) - NBC
*Let's Face It (1967) - syndicated
*Call My Bluff (1963-1964) - NBC
*Your First Impression (1962-1963) - NBC
*It Could Be You (1956-1961) - NBC - had both daytime and nighttime versions
*Musical Chairs (1955) - NBC - summertime seriesExternal links
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