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December 03, 1999|ELAINE WOO | TIMES STAFF WRITER. Gene Rayburn, the actor and veteran quiz show host best known for emceeing television's The Match Game, has died. He was 81. Rayburn died Monday at his home near Gloucester, Mass., of congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Lynne Rayburn.
Gene died in Pasadena, California, according to a spokesperson from the Woods-Valentine Mortuary. His family says he died from his long time struggle with diabetes. The Dancing Machine is survived by his children Bonnie, Carol, Sidney and Courtney, his sister Henrietta, nine grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.