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Bill Leyden, William Bill Leyden (born February 1, 1917 — died March 11, 1970) was a World War II veteran serving in the Marine Corps and a television game show host and announcer who emceed six game shows, including It Could Be You (1956-61), Your First Impression (1962-64, with Dennis James), and Youre Putting Me On (1969). In addition, he hosted movies on KTTV, and in fact played small roles in a handful of films, including Jerry Lewis The Patsy (1964).After returning home following the war, Leyden worked as a radio announcer on KMPC in Los Angeles and later served announcer for the syndicated radio series The Liberace Program (1954-55) before moving over to television, where he hosted several game shows, the most successful of which was It Could Be You.During his run on It Could Be You, Leyden was touted by announcer Wendell Niles as the man who will amaze you with what he knows about you, partly because Leyden was often helped onstage and in the audience by well-concealed TelePrompters and a team of spies and operatives who investigated potential contestants.Although he was extremely popular, both in front of the camera and behind the microphone, Leydens chronic health problems limited his on-screen work in the latter half of the 1960s (Bill Cullen and Larry Blyden filled in for Leyden on Youre Putting Me On, with Blyden becoming the permanent host of the show when Leyden suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in September 1969). For his television work, Leyden received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[edit] Game showsYoure Putting Me On (1969) - NBCSuper Bingo (1967) - syndicatedLets Face It (1967) - syndicatedCall My Bluff (1965) - NBCYour First Impression (1962-1963) - NBCIt Could Be You (1956-1961) - NBC - had both daytime and nighttime versionsMusical Chairs (1955) - NBC -summer series[edit] References^ Born in 1917 per Social Security Death Index under name William Leyden[edit] External linksBill Leyden at the Internet Movie DatabaseRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_LeydenCategories: 1917 births | 1970 deaths | American game show hostsHidden categories: Place of birth missing | Place of death missingPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable version This page was last modified on 17 October 2010 at 08:56.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();