Game show host Jack Narz died 15 October 2008 from complications of a stroke. Born 13 November 1922 in Louisville, Kentucky, he was an announcer on Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge (1949) before coming in front of the cameras as the host of Place the Face (1953), The Price is Right (1956), and Dotto (1958). It was as the host of Dotto that he became involved the game show scandal of the 1950s. The show was cancelled without warning, and the Associated Press reported “No one appears more amazed by the sudden cancellation of Dotto than its master of ceremonies, Jack Narz, who learned that the show had been dropped about the same time reporters did.” But Narz returned to host several more shows in the 1960s. His career lasted more than three decades, as he also hosted Concentration and Beat the Clock in the 1970s, with appearances on Card Sharks and Password Plus in the early 1980s.
In addition to the game shows, Narz was the announcer of the early 1950s tv series Space Patrol, and narrated several episodes of Adventures of Superman (1951-52).
Game show hosting seems to run in Narz’s family: his brother is Tom Kennedy, and his brother-in-law is Bill Cullen. Narz is survived by his wife, Delores, Kennedy, a sister, three sons, one daughter, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.