![]() ![]() After Jeopardy!'s first cancellation in 1975, Fleming returned to acting. Throughout his career, Fleming starred in about 5,000 episodes of television programs and 48 motion pictures. He hoped the contestant would disagree, thinking he was wrong. Fleming later said he did not know a thing about tennis and had guessed the answer. The female contestant (who had selected Fleming) turned to Hollywood Squares MC Peter Marshall, saying, "Art Fleming would never lie! I agree!" He was right, and the contestant won $11,000. His question was, "In 1938, who won the Wimbledon women's tennis championship?" Fleming picked Helen Wills Moody, one of the three choices read to him. While appearing as a guest star on Hollywood Squares (another NBC game show in the 1960s and 1970s), Fleming was once selected as the "secret square". While he was host of Jeopardy!, Fleming never missed a taping.īecause he hosted a quiz show, and in part because he was an avid reader with multiple college degrees, Fleming earned a reputation as being a storehouse of trivia. Rather than describe him as the "host" of the program, announcer Don Pardo introduced him by saying, "and here's the star of Jeopardy!, Art Fleming" As "the world's greatest quiz show's" first host, Fleming earned two Emmy Award nominations. ![]() Fleming won the job, and hosted the show during its original run of March 30, 1964, to January 3, 1975, and again from October 2, 1978, to March 2, 1979. ![]() Griffin thought Fleming was "authoritative, yet warm and interesting", and Fleming was invited to audition to be the host of Griffin's new game show Jeopardy!. He was first spotted by Merv Griffin on a commercial for Trans World Airlines. He also played attorney Jeremy Pitt in The Californians, an NBC Western set in San Francisco during the gold rush of the 1850s.įleming also appeared in many television commercials, in addition to anchoring the eleven o’clock news on WNBC. In 1959 he starred as detective Ken Franklin in the ABC TV series International Detective, credited as Arthur Fleming. His first television role was as a stunt double for Ralph Bellamy in the detective series Man Against Crime. Ī 1970 NBC publicity photo featuring Art James, Bob Clayton, Jack Kelly, and Flemingįleming's acting career began at age four, when he appeared in a Broadway musical. He was the first announcer to deliver the slogan " Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should" for Winston cigarettes. His radio career later took him to Akron, Ohio, and back home to New York. Here, he changed his name to "Art Fleming". Career Īfter leaving the Navy, Fleming became an announcer at a radio station in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Navy for three and a half years as the pilot of a patrol bomber in the Atlantic. Fleming was a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. He later attended Colgate and Cornell Universities, starring on the football team, as well as water polo teams at both colleges. Their son Art was a varsity letterman football player at James Monroe High School in New York City, standing 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m), weighing 220 pounds (100 kg). They were a popular dance team in Europe and brought their show to America. His parents, William and Marie Fazzin, had immigrated to the United States from Austria. He hosted the first version of the television game show Jeopardy!, which aired on NBC from 1964 until 1975 and again from 1978 to 1979.įleming was born in New York City. Arthur Fleming Fazzin (– April 25, 1995) was an American actor and television host. ![]()
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