Mike Stokey

{{short description|American game show host and producer (1918–2003}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Mike Stokey

|image = Mike Stokey Sandra Spence Pantomime Quiz.JPG

|caption = Stokey and Sandra Spence from Pantomime Quiz, 1952.

|birth_date = September 14, 1918

|birth_place = Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2003|09|07|1918|09|14}}

|death_place = Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.

|occupation = Game show host, producer

|spouse = Pamela Blake (1943–1948)
Spring Mitchell (m. 1955)

}}

File:George Hamilton Lisabeth Scott Stump the Stars 1963.jpg, Lizabeth Scott and Mike Stokey on Stump the Stars (1963) ]]

Mike Stokey (September 14, 1918 – September 7, 2003) was an American television game show host and television producer.

Career

Stokry was known for Pantomime Quiz (1947–1959) and its later incarnation Stump the Stars (1962–1970). He also produced early television specials, including A Christmas Carol in 1949, for the Jerry Fairbanks Company. Stokey also hosted Beat the Odds in 1961 while it was presented at KTLA.

Personal life

His first wife (1943–1948) was actress Pamela Blake, with whom he had one son, Mike Stokey II, and a daughter, Barbara.

His second wife (1955 - ?) was actress Spring Mitchell, born Neola Buxton in Lansing, Michigan, with whom he had daughter, Susan Stokey and grandchildren Juliette Goglia, Dante Goglia and Emily Goglia.

=Death=

Stokey died from complications from liver disease on September 7, 2003 (seven days before his 85th birthday) in Las Vegas.{{cite news |last=Oliver |first=Myrna |title=Mike Stokey, 84, a Producer in Early TV |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/13/arts/mike-stokey-84-a-producer-in-early-tv.html |date=September 13, 2003 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press}}{{cite news |title=Mike Stokey, 84; Quiz Show Host Won One of the Original Emmys |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-sep-12-me-stokey12-story.html |date=September 12, 2003 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}