Marty Allen

Marty Allen was an American comedian and actor.

During the early to the mid-1950s, Allen and his first comedy partner, Mitch DeWood, worked as an opening act for such stars as Sarah Vaughan, Eydie Gormé, and Nat King Cole. Allen and DeWood broke up in 1958.

He then became part of the comedy team of Allen & Rossi with Steve Rossi, which resulted in a string of hit comedy albums, 44 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, and the film The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966). They worked together from 1957 to 1968, parted ways amicably, and reunited for shows from the 1970s through the 1990s.

Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, he made hundreds of television appearances, becoming a regular on game shows such as Password, The Hollywood Squares, Match Game, I’ve Got A Secret, and What’s My Line?.

From the 1980s he and his wife, singer-songwriter Karon Kate Blackwell, teamed up to perform their musical comedy act to audiences around the country. They performed together in Las Vegas as recently as 2017.

Allen died February 12, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was 95.