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Bennett Cerf

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Biography

A very talented and quick-witted man, Bennett Cerf was a humorist and publisher. In 1927, at age 29, he became one of the founding…more

Born

New York, New York, USA (Manhattan)

Died

8/27/1971

Birth Name

Bennett Alfred Cerf

Gender

Male

Credits

Star (1)

Role
- What's My Line?
  Regular Panelist (1951-1967)
  - S 18: Ep 53 EPISODE #876
    9/3/67
  - S 18: Ep 52 EPISODE #875
    8/27/67
  - S 18: Ep 51 EPISODE #874
    8/20/67
  - S 18: Ep 49 EPISODE #872
    8/6/67
  - S 18: Ep 48 EPISODE #871
    7/30/67
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Recurring Role (3)

Role
- The Match Game
  Himself
  - S 7: Ep 46 Joanne Carson & Bennett Cerf
    7/7/69
  - S 6: Ep 51 Meredith MacRae & Bennett Cerf
    8/19/68
  - S 4: Ep 28 Jayne Mansfield & Bennett Cerf
    3/7/66
  - S 2: Ep 21 The MATCH GamE All-Stars (January 20-24, 1964)
    1/20/64
- The Match Game
  Guest Panelist
  - S 1: Ep 10 Peggy Cass & Bennett Cerf
    3/4/63
- Who Said That?
  Panelist
  - S 2: Ep 18 5/7/1949
    5/7/49
Guest Star (13)

Role
- The Dick Cavett Show
  Himself
  - S 5: Ep 88 January 27, 1971
    1/27/71
  - S 5: Ep 17 September 29, 1970
    9/29/70
  - S 4: Ep 113 June 10, 1970
    6/10/70
- The Mike Douglas Show
  Himself
  - S 8: Ep 88 December 31, 1969
    12/31/69
  - S 6: Ep 157 April 9, 1968
    4/9/68
  - S 6: Ep 28 October 11, 1967
    10/11/67
- The David Frost Show
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 14 September 18, 1969
    9/18/69
  - S 3: Ep 58 December 16, 1970
    12/16/70
- The Mike Douglas Show
  Himself/Co-host
  - S 6: Ep 255 September 6, 1968
    9/6/68
  - S 6: Ep 254 September 5, 1968
    9/5/68
  - S 6: Ep 253 September 4, 1968
    9/4/68
  - S 6: Ep 252 September 3, 1968
    9/3/68
  - S 6: Ep 251 Week of September 2, 1968
    9/2/68
- Password
  Guest Panelist
- Person to Person
  Himself
  - S 5: Ep 30 April 4, 1958
    4/4/58
- What's My Line?
  Guest Moderator
  - S 9: Ep 5 EPISODE #382
    9/29/57
- The George Gobel Show
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 13 January 28, 1956
    1/28/56
- What's My Line?
  Guest Panelist
  - S 2: Ep 5 EPISODE #20
    10/15/50
- Who Said That?
  Himself
  - S 3: Ep 24 7/10/1950
    7/10/50
- Who Said That?
  Panelist
  - S 3: Ep 10 4/3/1950
    4/3/50
  - S 2: Ep 50 12/17/1949
    12/17/49
  - S 2: Ep 38 9/24/1949
    9/24/49
  - S 2: Ep 25 6/25/1949
    6/25/48
- We, The People
  Guest Star
  - S 2: Ep 1 Paul Henreid/Ezio Pinza
    1/4/49
- Critic at Large
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 19 12/23/1948
    12/23/48

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Trivia
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- Bennett had a good natured give-and-take relationship with What's My Line? host John Daly, both men teasing each other about their habits, backgrounds, and behaviors. One running pun Bennett would usually make whenever a guest would sign in as 'Mr. X' would be to say that Mr. Daly and the guest were 'Ham & X' (Ham and eggs)
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- Whenever Bennett Cerf wrote an original work, he would have it published by rival publishing house Doubleday because he felt if he published them himself his Random House authors would feel he was putting his interests in front of theirs.
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- A Bennett Cerf pun: Did you hear that a major Alaskian town is banning all puppies from its city limits? The town will be now known as dogless Fairbanks.
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