Allen Ludden, as emcee of
Password, presiding over a round with celebrity guests [[Carol Burnett (left) and
Vicki Lawrence (right).]]
Allen Ludden (
October 5, 1917 -
June 9, 1981) was an
American television presenter and
game show host. He was born
Allen Ellsworth in
Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
Ludden hosted many game shows, including the
GE College Bowl, but he was most famous for hosting both the daytime and primetime versions of
Password on
CBS and
ABC from 1961 to 1975. He started hosting a daytime version of the game,
Password Plus on
NBC, in 1979, but illness forced him off the show in 1980.
At the time of his death, he was battling
stomach cancer. He was posthumously awarded a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame next to his widow
Betty White's star. They met when she appeared on
Password and they had been married since 1963.
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