About: Frank Wayne   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Frank Wayne (born Rocco Francis Rossi, Jr. on July 9, 1917; died on March 18, 1988) was an American game show producer and host born in Boston, Massachusetts, who was also associated with Mark Goodson Productions. Wayne was the original executive producer of the 1972 revival of The Price is Right until his death in 1988. He created the show's most popular pricing game called Plinko and many others. Both his sons named Philip Wayne Rossi and Mark Wayne also worked on Price. As an independent producer, Wayne created and produced Laugh Line, a game show hosted by Dick Van Dyke.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Frank Wayne
rdfs:comment
  • Frank Wayne (born Rocco Francis Rossi, Jr. on July 9, 1917; died on March 18, 1988) was an American game show producer and host born in Boston, Massachusetts, who was also associated with Mark Goodson Productions. Wayne was the original executive producer of the 1972 revival of The Price is Right until his death in 1988. He created the show's most popular pricing game called Plinko and many others. Both his sons named Philip Wayne Rossi and Mark Wayne also worked on Price. As an independent producer, Wayne created and produced Laugh Line, a game show hosted by Dick Van Dyke.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • Frank Wayne (born Rocco Francis Rossi, Jr. on July 9, 1917; died on March 18, 1988) was an American game show producer and host born in Boston, Massachusetts, who was also associated with Mark Goodson Productions. Wayne was the original executive producer of the 1972 revival of The Price is Right until his death in 1988. He created the show's most popular pricing game called Plinko and many others. Both his sons named Philip Wayne Rossi and Mark Wayne also worked on Price. Wayne is also credited with creating The Match Game (1962) and Now You See It (1974) for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. He filled in for Bud Collyer on Beat the Clock in summer 1953 while a writer/stunt creator on the show, and then later became the show's producer. As an independent producer, Wayne created and produced Laugh Line, a game show hosted by Dick Van Dyke.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software