Merv Griffin Overview:

Actor, Merv Griffin, was born Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. on Jul 6, 1925 in San Mateo, CA. Griffin died at the age of 82 on Aug 12, 2007 in Los Angeles, CA .

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television. In addition, Griffin was inducted into the TV Hall of Fame .

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In the 1997 "Seinfeld" (1990) episode "The Merv Griffin Show", Kramer rescues Griffin's discarded set from a dumpster, and stages his own talk show in his apartment.

Wrote the 30-second piece of music heard during the "Final Jeopardy" category.

Not content with catering merely to the celebrity publicity mongers on his self-titled talk show, his unusually wide spectrum of guests ranged from superstars (Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Orson Welles Woody Allen and Richard Pryor) to the more controversial (Abbie Hoffman, Truman Capote, Gypsy Rose Lee and transsexual Christine Jorgensen), to the political mighty (Richard Nixon, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King).

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