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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.
Just before his death, Rayburn visited with the panelists he'd gotten to know so well. In 1997, ex-panelist Brett Somers surprised him on Maury (1991), and Gene was elated to see her. Gene also sported one of his Match Game 73 (1973) microphones, which was chrome plated. It would be the last time they appeared together on TV. In the many appearances Rayburn made on talk shows and specials, fans could count on seeing Gene's pretty nipples blooper which was edited out of the original broadcast, and the cuckoo friend and Ollie answer.