 larry blyden (june 23, 1925 â june 6, 1975) was an american actor and game show host, best known for his appearances on broadway and as the host of the game show what's my line? ==personal life== born ivan lawrence blieden in houston, texas, blyden, a practicing jew, was married to actress and dancer carol haney (1925â1964) between 1955 and 1962. the couple had two children: joshua (1957-2000) and ellen (1960- ). their relationship was tempestuous, and they divorced two years before her death.bloom and vlastnik, p. 207 blyden and haney resided in the historic achenbach house in saddle river, new jersey, which they believed to be haunted by the spirit of its builder. the house was later sold to tour operator mario perillo and was destroyed by fire in 2004.fisher, janon. "bergen county house on historic register is fire victim", the new york times, march 20, 2004. accessed february 4, 2012. "in the 1960s, the private house, known as the achenbach house, was the home of the actor and producer larry blyden and his wife, the actress and dancer carol haney, who believed the house was haunted. later it was owned by mario perillo of perillo tours, well known for his television commercials selling package tours to italy; after his death, the house passed to mr. perillo's son stephen, the current owner." ==career== blyden's career had three distinct phases. for most of his career, he was known as both a good, solid character actor on television and a highly in-demand broadway actor. other television work he did included his starring in one situation comedy, harry's girls, which ran on nbc for fifteen episodes from 1963 to 1964. in this adaptation of the robert e. sherwood play idiot's delight, blyden starred as harry, a vaudeville style performer constantly getting into trouble and falling in love. blyden also did many guest performances on such dramatic anthology shows as playhouse 90, omnibus, and the loretta young show along with the twilight zone and other non-anthology dramatic programs. although he was generally cast as a nice guy, his two twilight zone episodes display an impressi
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