Since we mentioned Tom Poston's birthday yesterday, I realized that I celebrate my birthday on the same day as Suzanne Pleshette - Mrs. Tom Poston herself. What game show folk - host, panelist, announcer, or even contestant - do you share your birthday with?

Have a good one, whenever it is.

The only GS personality I can find for my birthday (Nov. 19) is Dick Cavett, host of College Bowl (1987 edition), panelist on What's My Line?, and celebrity player on the $25,000 Pyramid. I'm sure I'm leaving out a zillion other appearances, of course.

According to the Game Show Almanac, I share my birthday(Oct. 23) to these 2 people(one directly & one indirectly):

Johnny Carson - Hosted Earn Your Vacation & Whom Do You Trust? before becomming a sucessful host of The Tonight Show for 30 years.

Weird Al Yankovic- He "Lost on Jeopardy!" but he did win Wheel of Fortune.

The host of The $64,000 Challenge, who only told people they were correct when they were--------------RALPH STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!

July 18 - Audrey Landers and TV Geek/all-around nice guy Paul Goebel. ;)

This really doesn't count, but Pat Sajak's birthday (oct. 26) is a day before mine (oct. 27)...

...but I share the birthday with John Cleese and Theodore Roosevelt.

Well, I (Feb. 11) can claim occasional 70s HS visitor Burt Reynolds. Oh, and Thomas Edison, without whom the well'-lit game show sets would instead have been lit by thousands of candles.

Not much for those who were born on the 8th of October...

Upon checking www.famousbirthdays.com, the celeb with the most GS experience is probably Rona Barrett (MG '7x and others.) Then it's down to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who hosted of The Question Is Moot (SNL skit) and Chevy Chase, who was a contestant and a correct response in SNL's original Jeopardy! 1999 parody.

Everyone else is questionable; Stephanie Zimbalist (Remington Steele), Sigourney Weaver, Matt Damon, and Paul Hogan (unless our Aussie friends know different.) I'm pretty sure I can rule out Juan Peron and the author of the Goosebumps books...

Esoteric Eric, who had to be reminded by this board that his late mom shared her exact birthday with Nipsey Russell

Yep, me too.

You also share a birthday with me.

He also won on Family Double Dare.

Alas, after looking up March 18 on Famous Birthdays (link corrected), I don't see any gs personalities among the likes of Bonnie Blair, George Plimpton, Queen Latifah, and Grover Cleveland (I'd be really surprised if he appeared on a game show!). Maybe Peter Graves or Vanessa Williams were appeared on a gs at some point (and didn't Edward Everett Horton appear on HSq in the '60s?), but the closest I can think of is Wilson Pickett or Irene Cara possibly mentioned on Rock and Roll Jeopardy!.

ObGS: The next time March 18 rolls around, I will officially be a senior, at least by Trivia Trap's definition.

11/11, which means I share a birthday with Jim Perry and Marc Summers.

And Jason W., Vanessa Williams did appear on HP in 1984 (at least there's a picture of her and Steve Yeager in the EOTVGS3 on the set)--although why she only had one "s" in her first name at the time is a ponderable question.

Doug

Wasn't Plimpton a panelist on "Whodunit?" Seems to me...

Since I'd better not get caught checking on company time, if I throw out my three big names, someone's bound to know what they've been on (and I can't help but think they would be What's My Line mystery guests or IGAS celebrity guests) - so here goes...

Sept 5th -
Carol Lawrence
Raquel Welch
and Bob Newhart
Thanks!

September 3-Kitty Carlisle! I would wager a guess that Eileen Brennan and/or Alan Ladd had to have made a few GS appearances here and there as well. Not too bad, regardless.

--Sam
(I highly doubt Charlie Sheen has ever been on a game show, on the other hand...)

[Donald Trump] Hey, Ol' Guy....you're FIRED![/DT]

November 18

Owen Wilson
Kirk Lee Hammett
Elizabeth Perkins
Linda Evans
Brenda Vaccaro
Alan Shepard, Jr.
Imogene Coca

Not sure, but didn't Shepard do one of the G-T panel shows?

In a 1972 syndicated "TPIR," Eileen Brennan appeared to present in a movie-themed Showcase a role as an extra in a little film she was making called "The Sting." In this instance, Dennis James then emphasized that the contestants were to consider this a bonus and not to include union scale for extras in their bid (unlike the unwon daytime Showcase where a prize was being a "TPIR" model for a day did include union scale in the total ARP--it was the first time Janice and Anitra spoke on the show).

It seems to me that this Showcase was not won on that show, so don't get the DVD of "The Sting" to look for this contestant somewhere in the background.

Barker made the same point as Denny some 20 yrs later in Nov 1992, when Melody Thomas Scott and Peter Bergman dropped by to offer a bonus of the op to be an extra on Y&R (this was part of a showcase that celebrated the latter's 5000th ep, airing that same day).

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

I share a birthday with The Donald. :-)

January 28th. I knew that Alan Alda shared a birthday with me, and after checking the famousbirthdays sight, found a few more I didn't know including singer Sarah McLaughlan.

Though it's not listed on that sight, I know that Barbi Benton also has a birthday on that day, and for you hockey fans out there, so does '70s hockey player Paul Henderson.

Similar story here.

March 16: Chuck Woolery
March 17: Yours Truly

Brenda Vaccaro


She did a week of Syndie WLOD.


And my birthday 12/7 is also Peter Tomarken's.

2/9

The only one with any game show relation was Jm J Bullock

November 30th means I blow out the candles with Dick Clark and Dian Parkinson, which opens the door for a really crass pun I won't be making at this particular moment.

February 26--Jackie Gleason (You're in the Picture), and Tony Randall.

December 9: I share my b-day with former "Pyramid" host Donny Osmond.

Apparently, the Celebrity Café has a LOT more birthday listings (My date has 7x more than FamousBirthdays!). Of course, I don't see anybody for July 19th.

<Phil Hartman as Ed McMahon> You are correct, sir!!! YES!!!! HA HA ha ha ha!!! </PHaEM>

I found 44 listings rather than the nine at the previous site (who brought Famous Birthdays.com up in this thread anyw... oh, yeah... I did...) ; granted, I haven't a clue who most of the extra ones ARE...

...that is, except for Sarah Purcell (The Better Sex); I was born when she turned eleven, but betcha she looks eleven years YOUNGER than me now...

Esoteric Eric; <OT> LET'S GO RED SOX!!! <clap clap clapclapclap> LET'S GO RED SOX!!! <clap clap clapclapclap> LET'S GO RED SOX!!! <clap clap clapclapclap>...

THIS POST HAS BEEN EDITED FOR SPELLING, AND TO FIX THE QUOTE FUNCTION... -EE

I said it before: let's hear it for makeup.

Let that be a lesson to George Steinbrenner: $185 million doesn't buy what it used to.

ObGS: The Bullseye theme is easier to clap to, IMO.

Well, thanks to the sites you've all mentioned, I found a few more game show people I share a birthday with: Joanne Dru (Peter Marshall's sister), Carol Channing, and Garry Moore.

And of course, a bunch of people I never heard of at the obscure celebrity clearinghouse that is the Birthday Cafe.

Yup, me too.....And I can now say (although do I want to?) that my October 10 birthday is shared with Mario Lopez..

Nah, the real lesson to Steinbrenner is that filling your roster with six ex-Cubs will bring you certain defeat in October.

While it's not the "be all, end all" formula, this is a fun little read.

Doug

Best I can come up with for January 30 is Dick Martin, host of "Mindreaders" and panelist on several others.

I usually wear the same clothes for a week straight to celebrate.

My birthday is Nov. 1 (I turn 30 this year). Bill Anderson's and Marsha Wallace's birthdays are also Nov. 1.

I share mine (August 3rd) with Martha Stewart, of all people......Also, Martin Sheen and Patriots QB Tom Brady.

Happy birthday in advance.....I just joined the 30 club 11 days ago.

To keep this somewhat on track, was Ben Vereen on a gameshow? he also shares my birthday....

Congrats on turning 30, guys...I'm not far behind you (end of January).

Dixon Hayes's list on classicsquares.com says Ben Vereen was on Squares with Peter Marshall and Tom Bergeron.

June 19....one major celeb I can mention is Moe Howard [wasn't he on WML? as a Mystery Guest at all?]

Ditto WBSM...Ben defeated him in the Best of 10, however...and in an eerie coincidence for all you Weird Al fans, his score in said round was a 4.

As for shared B-Days, mine (May 28) is on the same day as one-time GSN original host Becca Grant.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

Ben hosted "You Write the Songs" in 86, which could fit in a liberal definition of game shows. The EOTVGS lists it.

The best I could do for November 3 was Roseanne Barr,who made a lot of appearances on Davidson HS. Anybody know if Ken Berry,Charles Bronson or Dennis Miller were on GSs?

Travis D. McLemore,Jr.

Ken Berry was, for sure. I have visual confirmation in a clip of the open of Just Men, and I'm sure he has other credits, which some people who need to get out more will be telling you about right now...

Charles Bronson guested on Bill Leyden's "Your First Impression."

December 28:

Sam Levenson
Cliff Arquette aka Charley Weaver

I guess I'm one of them. :)

Ken Berry appeared on TT (with wife Jackie Joseph). He also did a week of GONG (very early on--I think within the first six or seven weeks).

I've also met him (twice). Take from that what you will. :)

Doug

No, I'm a liberal, and I don't consider YWTS to be a GS at all. :-D

Chuck Donegan (The Political "Chuckie Baby")

June 17 - Lucky me, I share my birthday cake (plutonically) with Shane Stirling.

One day later (or, if he had been born a day earlier), it would be shared with Bud Collyer.