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Merv Griffin was an entertainment industry giant. He was a singer, actor and longtime host of "The Merv Griffin Show." He created "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune," but to his only child, Tony Griffin, he was just dad.
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Tony remembers his father, who passed away Sunday at 82 from prostate cancer, as a man with boundless energy who could command attention wherever he went. His month-long downward spiral was not only difficult for the family to watch, but also hard on Merv himself.
"You know, this is a guy who's never been sick in his life and just got hit," Tony told The Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen. "And that was it.
Tony griffin biography
That was it. The good news is I got to spend a lot of time with him in the hospital. And we — we just went over our lives. It was nice."
Mervyn Edward Griffin was born in northern California in 1925. As a young man, he became a singer on radio and in nightclubs and then went on to movies and TV.
Soon he got his own game show, "Play Your Hunch." It was