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Johnny Gilbert
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Gilbert announcing Jeopardy! in 2019
Born
John Lewis Gilbert III

(1928-07-13) July 13, 1928 (age 96)
Newport News, Virginia, U.S.
OccupationGame show host/announcer
Years active1958–present
Known forAnnouncer of Jeopardy! (1984–present)
Spouse
  • Sharee Gilbert
    ​
    (m. 1984)​
Military career
AllegianceFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Service / branch Flag of the United States Army.svg United States Army
Unit US Seventh Army SSI.svg Seventh Army Special Services [1]

John Lewis Gilbert III (born July 13, 1928) is an American show business personality who has worked mainly on television game shows. Originally a nightclub singer and entertainer, he has hosted and announced a number of game shows from various eras, dating as far back as the 1950s. He is known primarily for his work as the announcer and audience host for the syndicated version of the quiz show Jeopardy! since its revival in 1984.

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Early life and education

John Lewis Gilbert III [2] was born on July 13, [2] 1928) [3] [4] [5] in Newport News, Virginia. He began performing by singing as a boy in his hometown Lutheran Church choir. [6] Although his parents had never worked in the theatrical profession themselves, his grandmother had been a church singer. [2]

While he was still in high school, Gilbert decided to take up a professional singing career and learned from an opera teacher. He never sang opera independently, but was the regular vocalist with Shelly Harmon and His Orchestra, a group that toured the Virginia area. [2]

Career

Stage and early television career

A few years after graduating from high school, Gilbert resided in Florida for three months working as an emcee, during which he received on-the-job training and learned to walk on stage, speak in front of a public crowd, and tell jokes and stories. [2]

The Dead End Kids, a group comprising young actors such as Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and Gabriel Dell, were organizing a revue. Gilbert joined the group and played throughout the southwestern United States for 16 weeks. [6] When they played in Norfolk, Virginia, Gilbert got special billing. [2]

In the 1950s, Gilbert joined the United States Army's Seventh Army Special Services in Germany, [1] and was cast as the lead in Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical , an original musical comedy inspired in part by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan , which chronicles Marco Polo's trip to China. The company toured throughout Western Europe, performing for servicemen and civilians alike. [6]

After resigning from the service and returning to the U.S., Gilbert continued singing and hosting in clubs. [6] One day, a manager of a well-known group in Philadelphia asked Gilbert if he was interested in auditioning for television. [2] He said yes, and received his first television assignment as a singer and emcee on WDSU in New Orleans. [7]

Hosting

Gilbert went to New York City, where he quickly signed with the William Morris Agency and in 1958 received his first job on national television—as the host of a newly created game show, Music Bingo. [6] The show ran for three years, airing first on NBC and then on ABC. [2] His popularity on that show led him to record an album and several singles. Gilbert went on to emcee the local game show Words and Music on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. [2]

Gilbert was later contacted by Avco Broadcasting to host his own local talk/variety show, The Johnny Gilbert Show, which aired on WLWD-TV (now WDTN) in Dayton, Ohio, and three other Avco stations in Ohio and Indiana. The show was a 90-minute, live telecast running 5 days a week. It included celebrity guests and a 60-person studio audience. He hosted it for two years until he left Dayton on short notice for New York, where he became the host of the Metromedia-produced game show Fast Draw . His slot was then given to Phil Donahue, who at that time was a reporter in WLWD-TV's news department. [2]

After his year-long run on Fast Draw, Gilbert was contacted by Bing Crosby Productions to host the game show Beat the Odds , produced in Los Angeles by Bill Carruthers. [2] After that, he hosted a local, weekday version of Dialing for Dollars on Los Angeles's KCOP-TV. [8]

Announcing

In 1963, Gilbert was selected by Mark Goodson to replace Don Pardo as the announcer and audience host for the original Bill Cullen-hosted version of The Price Is Right when it moved from NBC to ABC. He hosted the show for the absent Cullen on June 19, 1964. [9] Gilbert also served as the announcer and audience host for Dinah Shore's syndicated daily talk show, which ran from 1974 to 1980. [10]

When Merv Griffin's quiz show Jeopardy! was reintroduced to television in 1984 as a daily syndicated program hosted by Alex Trebek, Trebek convinced Griffin to hire Gilbert as announcer and audience host; Trebek had met Gilbert at a dinner party in the early 1980s and was impressed with his voice. [5] Gilbert has held these two roles ever since. [11] He has become well known for opening each of the show's nightly episodes with the announcement, "This is Jeopardy!" After that opening line, he would introduce the two new challengers for the episode followed by the defending champion, stating the total winnings of the latter, before introducing the host. His additional duties have included announcing the fee plugs for the sponsors of the show (until 1996) and announcing consolation prizes offered to non-winning contestants (until 2002). [12] As audience host, Gilbert handles warm-up duties, exciting the crowd before the commencement of taping.

In 2017 Gilbert was honored by Guinness World Records for having the longest career as a game show announcer for a single show, after 32 years with Jeopardy! [13] This was commemorated with a rare on-screen appearance by Gilbert just before the Final Jeopardy! segment of the episode aired September 28, 2017 (season #34, show #7599, Austin Rogers's 3rd win). He has also lent his announcements to most of the Jeopardy! video games since 1992, including a few game versions in which he voiced all of the clues and effectively hosted the entire game off-screen instead of Trebek. Gilbert briefly considered retirement after Trebek's death but chose to continue in the role. In recent years, Gilbert has handled much of his announcer load remotely, with a member of the Clue Crew providing in-studio announcements that are replaced with Gilbert's in post-production. [14] Since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Gilbert began doing his announcements in a studio built for him at his home. [15] [16] Since December 19, 2023, he also appears during the show's opening titles.

Alex Trebek died in 2020, and his final episodes aired in January 2021. Gilbert is the only person the daily syndicated Jeopardy! employed upon its 1984 launch to remain a part of the program's cast or crew through 2024.

In addition to announcing for Jeopardy!, Gilbert has worked as a guest announcer on its sister show, Wheel of Fortune . He announced on the episode that aired on April Fools' Day in 1997, [17] as well as a few weeks of episodes in 2010 following the death of the show's longtime announcer, Charlie O'Donnell. Gilbert also guest announced on Wheel in late 1995, when O'Donnell was ill, [18] and on the daytime show in 1988 before the death of then-regular announcer Jack Clark.

Other game shows for which Gilbert has announced over the decades include The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime , [2] The $25,000 Pyramid , The $100,000 Pyramid , Anything for Money , [2] Blackout , Camouflage , Chain Reaction , Dream House , Every Second Counts , Fantasy , Go , Headline Chasers (produced by Griffin), Jackpot , Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time , The Joker's Wild , Make Me Laugh , [2] Perfect Match , Quiz Kids Challenge , Sports Challenge , Supermarket Sweep , Tic-Tac-Dough , Win, Lose or Draw , [2] and Yours for a Song . He substituted for Gene Wood on several Goodson-Todman game shows, including Family Feud , the CBS version of Card Sharks , and Child's Play . He succeeded Rich Jeffries (another part-time substitute for Wood) as permanent announcer of Chuck Woolery's game show Love Connection during the 1988–89 season.

Other roles

Gilbert's voice was heard on the CBS television special Circus of the Stars , in People's Choice Awards and Emmy Awards ceremonies, and on episodes of the animated series The Angry Beavers and Johnny Bravo . He announced a fictional episode of Jeopardy! in the "Ellen's Energy Adventure" show at EPCOT Center's Universe of Energy attraction, and appeared in a subplot of the 1992 movie White Men Can't Jump in which a character played by Rosie Perez attempts to pass the Jeopardy! audition. Gilbert also lent his voice to an announcer in a 1989 episode of the TV series 227 and announced in The Golden Girls episode "Questions and Answers" (season 7, episode 17, on February 8, 1992) and in the Cheers episode "What Is... Cliff Clavin?" (season 8, episode 14, on January 18, 1990).

Personal life

Gilbert married his wife Sharee in 1984. [19] [20]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1961 Gidget Goes Hawaiian Johnny SpringUncredited
1967AVCO Hour of StarsVocalist
1979 Rock 'n' Roll High School AnnouncerUncredited
1992 White Men Can't Jump Jeopardy! AnnouncerVoice
1996 Ellen's Energy Adventure Jeopardy! AnnouncerVoice
2005Jeopardy! An Inside Look at America's Favorite Quiz ShowHimself
2018Game ChangersHimselfTV movie
2020What is Jeopardy!?: Alex Trebek and America's Most Popular Quiz ShowHimself

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1952Bachelor's HavenHost
1958Music BingoEmcee
1961 Yours for a Song AnnouncerUncredited
1961–1962 Camouflage Announcer/Guest Host4 episodes
1963–1965 The Price Is Right Announcer/Guest Host8 episodes
1967The Bob Braun ShowHimself1 episode
1968 Fast Draw Host1 episode
1968–1969 Beat the Odds Host
1969The Movie GameAnnouncer
1970–1971Words and MusicAnnouncer
1971 Sports Challenge Announcer
1972–1973 The Joker's Wild Guest Announcer
1975–1976 The Magnificent Marble Machine Announcer15 episodes
1977 Hollywood Connection Announcer85 episodes
1979 Make Me Laugh Announcer
Dinah! Announcer1 episode
1980 Chain Reaction Announcer71 episodes
1981The New Tic Tac DoughGuest Announcer
Family Feud Guest Announcer21 episodes
1982 Child's Play Announcer
1982–1991 The $25,000 Pyramid Announcer267 episodes
The $10,000 Pyramid Announcer107 episodes
1983 Fantasy Announcer1 episode
1983–1984 Go Announcer40 episodes
Dream House Announcer2 episodes
1984 Every Second Counts Announcer1 episode
Anything for Money Announcer1 episode
1984–present Jeopardy! Announcer9,000 episodes [21]
1984; 1989 Jackpot Announcer
1985–1986 Headline Chasers Announcer2 episodes
1985–1988 The $100,000 Pyramid Announcer100 episodes
1986Celebrity Double TalkAnnouncer
$1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime Announcer
1987Money in the BlankAnnouncerUnsold pilot
Win, Lose, or Draw Announcer
1988 Mama's Family HimselfEpisode: "Mama on Jeopardy!"
Blackout Announcer55 episodes
1988–1989 Love Connection Announcer195 episodes
1989 227 AnnouncerEpisode: "A Date to Remember"
1990 Cheers HimselfEpisode: "What Is... Cliff Clavin?"
The Finish LineAnnouncerUnsold pilot
Super Jeopardy! Announcer13 episodes
The Quiz Kids Challenge Announcer
1990–2000 Supermarket Sweep Announcer27 episodes
1992 The Golden Girls HimselfEpisode: "Questions and Answers"
1995 Beverly Hills, 90210 HimselfEpisode: "Double Jeopardy"
1995–2010 Wheel of Fortune Guest Announcer26 episodes
1997 Johnny Bravo Jackie Jacques1 episode
1999 The Angry Beavers TV Host1 episode
2009The Florence Henderson ShowHimself1 episode
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien Announcer in Jeopardy!1 episode
2020 Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time Announcer4 episodes
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? HimselfEpisode: "Total Jeopardy"
2022 Jeopardy! National College Championship Announcer9 episodes
Celebrity Jeopardy! Announcer13 episodes
Inside Jeopardy!Guest4 episodes
2023-present Jeopardy! Masters Announcer/Clue Giver20 episodes
This is Jeopardy!: The Story of America's Favorite Quiz ShowHimself1 episode

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998Jeopardy!AnnouncerVoice
2000Jeopardy! 2nd EditionAnnouncerVoice
2003Jeopardy! 2003AnnouncerVoice
2007Jeopardy! DVD GameAnnouncerVoice
2010Jeopardy! America's Favorite Quiz ShowAnnouncerVoice

Awards and honors

On September 29, 2022, Gilbert was inducted into the inaugural class of the Jeopardy! Hall of Fame at the 1st Jeopardy! Honors event. [22]

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Preceded by Announcer on Love Connection
1988–1989		Succeeded by
John Cervenka (1989–1994; 1998–1999)
Preceded by Announcer on The Price Is Right
September 9, 1963 – September 3, 1965		Succeeded by
Preceded by Announcer on Jeopardy!
1984–present		Succeeded by
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Foss only announces early sessions for the live taping; Gilbert's voice is dubbed over in post-production.
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 Announcer on Supermarket Sweep
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