George Alexander Trebek, OC, was a Canadian-American game show host and television personality. He was the host of the syndicated game show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons from its revival in 1984 until his death in 2020. Trebek also hosted a number of other game shows, including The Wizard of Odds, Double Dare, High Rollers, Battlestars, Classic Concentration, and To Tell the Truth. He received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host seven times.
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George Alexander Trebek, OC, was a Canadian-American game show host and television personality. He was the host of the syndicated game show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons from its revival in 1984 until his death in 2020. He also hosted a number of other game shows, including The Wizard of Odds, Double Dare, High Rollers, Battlestars, Classic Concentration, and To Tell the Truth. Trebek also made appearances in numerous television series, in which he usually played himself. He received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host seven times. He died on November 8, 2020 at age 80 after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He had been contracted to host JeopardY! until 2022. He grew up in a bilingual French-English household. A native of Canada, Trebek became a naturalized United States citizen in 1998. He became one of two hosts to emcee shows in both U.S. and Canada, joining Jim Perry who was hosting Definition and Headline Hunters in Canada and Card Sharks in the United States. He alternated smoothly between French and English throughout the day, alternating between the two languages for most of the show’s run. He competed in a charity tournament for a week-long round-robin tournament for the charity Génies en Bebe en Génierie. He won the tournament, defeating Cullen Cullen in the final, but lost out in the second round to Génie Cullen in a close battle for the title.
He later appeared in a special edition of Top-Canada, which was put on display in a francophone edition of the Radio-Canada equivalent of the Top of the Lake show. He hosted the popular Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley game show High rollers, which had two incarnations on NBC and an accompanying syndicated season. In 1971, he was one of several to have been shortlisted to succeed Ward Cornell as host of Hockey Night in Canada. Although Trebek was the preferred choice of executive producer Ralph Mellanby, based on his audition and other CBC roles, he ultimately chose Dave Hodge instead, because his boss did not want someone with a mustache to host Hockey Night. In 1973, he moved to the US and hosted a new game show, The Wizard Of Odds. In 1974, he hosted the short-lived CBS game show Double Dare. Double Dare turned out to be his only game show with the CBS network, and the first show he hosted for what was then Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, as well as the second season of The USD 128,000 Question, recorded in Toronto. In 1980, he appeared on NBC’s Card Sharks, which coincidentally premiered the same day as the Dayline Hunters, which he was hosting in Canada, which premiered the next day. He appeared on The Card Sharks as a guest player or panelist or player on other shows.
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