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Started out working the Borscht Belt resort circuit and turned that stage experience into decades of national television visibility, hosting a string of game shows and becoming one of the recognizable comic faces of American TV's middle decades. He performed under the stage name Jan Murray rather than his birth name, Murray Janofsky, across a career that carried him from Catskills hotel stages to network prime time.