Wink Martindale, the genial game-show host and an early TV interviewer of Elvis Presley, dies at 91 [Video]

Wink Martindale, the genial host of such hit game shows as “Gambit” and “Tic-Tac-Dough” who also did one of the first recorded television interviews with a young Elvis Presley, has died. He was 91.Video above: Remembering those we lost in 2025Martindale died Tuesday at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, according to his publicist Brian Mayes. Martindale had been battling lymphoma for a year.”He was doing pretty well up until a couple weeks ago,” Mayes said by phone from Nashville.”Gambit” debuted on the same day in September 1972 as “The Price is Right” with Bob Barker and “The Joker’s Wild” with Jack Barry.”From the day it hit the air, ‘Gambit’ spelled winner, and it taught me a basic tenant of any truly successful game show: KISS! Keep It Simple Stupid,” Martindale wrote in his 2000 memoir “Winking at Life.” “Like playing Old Maids as a kid, everybody knows how to play …