Wink Martindale, a radio and television entertainer known to audiences as host of classic game shows including “Tic-Tac-Dough” and “Gambit,” has died. He was 91.

Wink Martindale, the genial host of such hit game shows as “Gambit” and “Tic-Tac-Dough” who also did one of the first recorded television interviews with a young Elvis Presley, has died. Martindale died Tuesday at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage,

The iconic television host died "surrounded by family and his beloved wife of 49 years, Sandra Martindale" at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif.