Career
Wilson retired at the end of the show"s 20th season, and also appeared on-screen as part of comedy sketches that took place in the show"s control room. Wilson had a brief part playing the director of the rigged game show "Twenty One" in the 1994 film Quiz Show. Wilson died of an aortic aneurysm in Parsippany, New Jersey on June 30, 2002.
He was 69.