Alex Trebek
Acting
1940-07-22 · Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
George Alexander Trebek OC (July 22, 1940 - November 8, 2020) was a Canadian-American television personality, game show host and actor. He was the host of the syndicated game show Jeopardy! after its revival in 1984, and also hosted a number of other game shows, including The Wizard of Odds, Double Dare, High Rollers, Battlestars, Classic Concentration, and To Tell the Truth. Trebek also made appearances in numerous television series, in which he usually played himself. A native of Canada, Trebek became a naturalized United States citizen in 1998. He received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host seven times for his work on Jeopardy!. On November 8, 2020, Trebek died at age 80 after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer; he had been contracted to host Jeopardy! until 2022.
Filmography
Free Guy
2021 · Movie
Veil
2020 · Movie
Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time
2020 · Series
What Is Jeopardy!?: Alex Trebek and America's Most Popular Quiz Show
2020 · Movie
Phil
2019 · Movie
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
2019 · Series
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
2018 · Series
Betty White: First Lady of Television
2018 · Movie
Game Changers
2018 · Movie
OBJECTified
2017 · Series
Who Is Arthur Chu?
2017 · Movie
To Tell the Truth
2016 · Series
Being Canadian
2015 · Movie
Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute
2015 · Movie
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014 · Series
The Amazing Race Canada
2013 · Series
Orange Is the New Black
2013 · Series
Public Speaking
2011 · Movie
FCU: Fact Checkers Unit
2010 · Series
Hot in Cleveland
2010 · Series
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009 · Movie
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009 · Series
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009 · Series
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
2006 · Movie
The Reichen Show
2005 · Series
Jeopardy! An Inside Look at America's Favorite Quiz Show
2005 · Movie
The Colbert Report
2005 · Series
Little Manhattan
2005 · Movie
How I Met Your Mother
2005 · Series
Married to the Kellys
2003 · Series
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Series
S.W.A.T.
2003 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003 · Movie
Finding Forrester
2000 · Movie
Charlie's Angels
2000 · Movie
Black Light Dreams: The 25 Years of the Famous People Players
2000 · Movie
Random Hearts
1999 · Movie
Ladies Man
1999 · Series
Family Guy
1999 · Series
Jane Austen's Mafia!
1998 · Movie
Pepper Ann
1997 · Series
The Weird Al Show
1997 · Series
Arthur
1996 · Series
Men Behaving Badly
1996 · Series
Ellen's Energy Adventure
1996 · Movie
Spy Hard
1996 · Movie
The Naked Truth
1995 · Series
Ned & Stacey
1995 · Series
The Magic School Bus
1994 · Series
Ellen
1994 · Series
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Series
The Nanny
1993 · Series
Short Cuts
1993 · Movie
Dave's World
1993 · Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
The X-Files
1993 · Series
Mad About You
1992 · Series
The Larry Sanders Show
1992 · Series
White Men Can't Jump
1992 · Movie
Pacific Station
1991 · Series
Rugrats
1991 · Series
Dying Young
1991 · Movie
WWE WrestleMania VII
1991 · Movie
Beverly Hills, 90210
1990 · Series
Blossom
1990 · Series
Super Jeopardy!
1990 · Series
The Earth Day Special
1990 · Movie
The Simpsons
1989 · Series
Seinfeld
1989 · Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
The Golden Girls
1985 · Series
Jeopardy!
1984 · Series
Mama's Family
1983 · Series
Cheers
1982 · Series
Battlestars
1981 · Series
The Alan Thicke Show
1980 · Series
Vega$
1978 · Series
Double Dare
1976 · Series
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
Dinah!
1974 · Series
The Wizard of Odds
1973 · Series
60 Minutes
1968 · Series
The Way It Is
1967 · Series
The Male Swagger
Movie