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Aussie TV icon Ian Turpie dies, aged 68

Sunday, 11 March 2012 15:39

Ian Turpie, Australian game show host, actor, radio announcer, singer and patron of charities has apparently died aged 68.

Best known for his game shows of the 70’s and 80’s, including The Price is Right, Let’s Make a Deal and Supermarket Sweep succumbed to cancer this morning.

Turpie was also known recently for the SBS comedy ‘Swing and Shift’ couriers and was the first boyfriend of Olivia Newton John.

He also featured in the first episode of ‘Homicide’

Fellow game show host John Burgess says ‘Very sad day with the news, we've lost good mate Ian Turpie, I had the honour of calling Turps, mate,our deepest sympathies to Jan & family'

Born in Melbourne in 1943, Turpie's entertainment career spanned over 50 years after he began at the tender age of 10, when he was accepted at the prestigious Hector Crawford Drama School, where he gained recognition as a juvenile actor working in radio and theatre. He starred in a number of radio programs alongside Sir Robert Helpmann and June Bronhill, and featured in the top rating series D24, which became one of the most dominant and influential programs in Australian radio history. Turpie made regular appearances on Bandstand, Time for Terry and The Graham Kennedy Show. In 1964, Turpie played a bank robber in the original episode of the program that was to become a TV phenomenon Homicide. In the 1980s, Turpie's name became synonymous with the catchphrase "Come on Down" when he became host of the highly successful, frenzied game show The New Price is Right

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Ian Turpie at his most fun

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In the first episode of ‘Homicide’. Dashingly handsome!

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Here’s a report from last year’s Today Tonight on former TV hosts

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Having some fun with a Tom Jones Classic

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