As Himself

In 1958 there was a somewhat lame movie about the acceptance of Rock and Roll named Let's Rock. In this this movie there were some wellknown people playing themselves like Paul Anka and Della Reese,Also playing himslef was a somewhat less well known actor named Wink Martindale.

In a career most actors play many characters, Wink had gone through almost his entire career playing himself.

He went through the 60's playing himself or as host of a number of forgetable gameshows like What's This Song and How's Your Mother-in-Law before finally hitting it big in 1972 as the host of Gambit which ran until 1981.

Those were Wink's golden years as he overlapped as the host of The New Tic Tac Dough which ran from 1978 through 85 and the short lived Password Plus.

Towards the end of the 80's he was host of a show called High Rollers which had originally been hosted by Alex Trebek before he moved on the Jeopardy fame.

Cross posted at Dead Pool 2006