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    Monty Hall, original host of popular game show 'Let's Make a Deal,' dies at 96

    by By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times Sep 30, 2017 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES_Monty Hall, the original host and co-creator of "Let's Make a Deal," the long-running game show that debuted in 1963, making kooky audience costumes and carnival-style bartering an institution on daytime television, has died, according to Associated Press. He was 96.

    Hall, who was also a dedicated philanthropist, died of heart failure Saturday morning at his home in Los Angeles, according to his daughter Sharon Hall.

    "We knew this was going to happen - he was 96 - but you're never prepared," she said.

    One of the most popular TV game shows of the 1960s and early 1970s, "Let's Make a Deal" featured Hall as a fast-talking auctioneer-trader who randomly pulled people from the audience to trade for prizes that could be valuable - or relatively worthless "zonks," gag gifts such as a barnyard animal or a giant jar

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