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First Name
Gene

Last Name
Rayburn

Date of Birth
22 December 1917

Star Sign
Capricorn

Date of Death
29 November 1999

Gender
Male

Height
73

Build
Average

Hair Color
Salt and Pepper

Place of Birth
Christopher, Illinois, USA

Place of Death
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA

Cause of Death
(congestive heart failure)

Nationality
American

Ethnicity
White

Claim to Fame
Match Game

Wikipedia Text

Gene Rayburn (December 22, 1917 – November 29, 1999) was an American radio and television personality. Born Eugene Rubessa in Christopher, Illinois, he was an only child of Croatian immigrants and graduated from Lindblom Technical High School and later from Knox College. While a student at Lindblom, he was Senior Class President and acted in the plays, "Robert of Sicily," and, "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch."


Couple Profile
Gene Rayburn was born on December 22, 1917, in Christopher, Illinois. After his father died at a very young age, his mother moved to Chicago and married Milan Rubessa, and Gene adopted his stepfather`s name. As Gene Rubessa, he acted in high school plays and hoped to follow an acting career. He moved to New York City in the 1930s where he was a page for NBC, later working as an usher for the NBC symphony orchestra. Before World War Two he went to announcers school and worked with various radio personalities around New York City. He married Helen Tricknor in 1940 with whom he had one child, Lynn in 1942. Soon afterwards he was called to Military Service and joined the US Air Corps. After the war Gene worked on the Rayburn and Fitch show and later the Gene Rayburn Show in the early fifties. During the 50s Rayburn was instrumental in highlighting corruption on radio, by playing an older song so many times that it became a hit. This was alleged to have proved that record promoters could be paid to play records on stations for bribes, making the said songs very popular, albeit for a price. His breakthrough came in the mid-50s as the announcer on _"Tonight Show, The" (1954)_ with Steve Allen. Rayburn and Allen were associated on the Tonight Show for three years and Rayburn became a household name for many years after that. In 1955, he hosted his first game show called "The Sky`s the Limit" (1954). Subsequent game shows included "The Match Game" (1962), "Make the Connection" (1955), "Musical Chairs" (1955), "Play Your Hunch" (1958), "Tic Tac Dough" (1956), and "Dough Re Mi" (1958). He always flew by jet from his home in Massachusetts to host his various shows. Rayburn was also a Broadway performer, and appeared in plays such as Charles Nelson Reilly was his understudy. He also had a small part in the movie It Happened to Jane (1959).

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Full Name at Birth
Eugene Rubessa

Count - Awards
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Role ID
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Age
81

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