Monty Hall

Monty Hall was widely regarded as Let’s Make a Deal’s long-running host. The Canadian-American host was also a producer and philanthropist. He even had a puzzle named after him, the Monty Hall problem. Hall was involved in philanthropic work for a good part of his post-Deal days. His family says he still went to telethons and helped raise over $1 billion in his lifetime for charity investments.

Hall was praised regularly for his charitable activities. Wards at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital and Philadelphia’s Hahnemann University Hospital are named in his honor. Hall married Marilyn Doreen Plottel on September 28, 1947. The two had been introduced the previous year by a mutual relative, Norman Shnier. They later became citizens of the United States. They had three children. On September 30, 2017, Hall took his final breath in his home in Beverly Hills at the age of 96.