Arthur Fleming Fazzin was an American actor and television host. He is most notable for being the original host of the television game show Jeopardy! Fleming was a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Navy for three and a half years as the pilot of a patrol bomber in the Atlantic.
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Arthur Fleming Fazzin was an American actor and television host. He is most notable for being the original host of the television game show Jeopardy!, which aired on NBC from 1964 until 1975. Fleming was a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Navy for three and a half years as the pilot of a patrol bomber in the Atlantic. He was the first announcer to deliver the slogan \”Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should\” for Winston cigarettes. Throughout his career, Fleming starred in about 5,000 episodes of television programs and 48 motion pictures. He also appeared in episodes of Starsky and Hutch, Kingston: Confidential, and the 1976 TV miniseries The Moneychangers.
He reprised his role as host ofJeopardy! in the 1982 movie Airplane II: The Sequel and in Yird Al Yankovic’s music video “We Lost on JeopardY!” Fleming continued to host the program until his death in 2020, when Alex Trebek took the position and continued to do so until the end of the show’s run in 2013. He died of a heart attack at the age of 89. He had a son, Michael, and a daughter, Amy. He has a son and a grandson, both of whom are active members of the New York City Mets.
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