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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.
Like many veteran TV stars, Rayburn will live on in reruns. Old Match Game episodes are played twice a day on cable's Game Show Network. His wife, Helen, who appeared with Rayburn on the short-lived 1970s game show Tattletales, died in 1996.