Johnny Gilbert
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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 1984.
Gilbert was born in Newport News, Virginia.
He began performing by singing as a boy in his hometown Lutheran Church choir.
Although his parents had never worked in the theatrical profession themselves, his grandmother had been a church singer.
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.
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.
The Dead End Kids, a group comprising such young actors 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.
When they played in Norfolk, Virginia, Gilbert got special billing.
In the 1950s, Gilbert joined the United States Army's Seventh Army Special Services in Germany, 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, wh...
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