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Peter Marshall dead at 98: Legendary Hollywood Squares host and Broadway star passes away from kidney failure


Host and actor Peter Marshall has died aged 98 from kidney failure.

The show attracted a range of top stars as occasional guests, including Aretha Franklin, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Ed Asner and Janet Leigh. Born Ralph Pierre LaCock in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Marshall would move around the state as a child, living in Wheeling and Huntington. His father died when Marshall was 10, and he would live with his grandparents as his mother and sister, the actress Joanne Dru, moved to New York to pursue her career in show business.

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