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Larry Blyden (June 23, 1925 – 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? Born Ivan Lawrence Blieden in Houston, Texas, Blyden died in an automobile accident in Agadir, Morocco, seventeen days before he would have reached the age of 50. A practitioner of the Jewish faith, he was married to actress and dancer Carol Haney (1925–1964) between 1955 and 1962. The couple had two children: Joshua, born in 1957, and Ellen, born in 1960. Their relationship was tempestuous, and they divorced... MORE

Larry Blyden (June 23, 1925 – 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? Born Ivan Lawrence Blieden in Houston, Texas, Blyden died in an automobile accident in Agadir, Morocco, seventeen days before he would have reached the age of 50. A practitioner of the Jewish faith, he was married to actress and dancer Carol Haney (1925–1964) between 1955 and 1962. The couple had two children: Joshua, born in 1957, and Ellen, born in 1960. Their relationship was tempestuous, and they divorced two years before her death. 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 LESS