Career
He also directed the Ernie Kovacs-helmed game show, Take a Good Look, in the early 1960s. He went on to be the director on The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game before starting his own production company in 1968. He also produced and directed game shows including Give-n-Take, The Neighbors, Second Chance (all with Warner Bros Television), Lee Trevino"s Golf for Swingers (with McCann Erickson) and the 1975 version of You Don"t Say! (with Ralph Andrews Productions and Warner Bros Television), before hitting it big with the Columbia Broadcasting System game show, Press Your Luck, which ran from 1983-1986.
In the 1990s, he produced specials for The Family Channel, called Marry Maine, as well as a short-lived game show for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, Designated Hitter.
He suffered a stroke in 1996, which eventually led to his death from heart failure in 2003.