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Paul Alter

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Paul Alter was an American television director who specialized in game shows for Mark Goodson Productions. He was born in Chicago on 11 March 1922 and died on 11 June 2011. He was best known as the original director of Family Feud from the show's origin in the mid-1970s until the early 1990s, and as the director of The Price Is Right from 1986 until 2000. Within this atlas Paul Alter is credited as the director of The Price Is Right and What's My Line?.

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Primetime Emmy Award 1
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1922 1
Paul Alter
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    Paul Alter (March 11, 1922, June 11, 2011) was an American television director, specializing in game shows for Mark Goodson Productions.
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    In his career, Alter won two Emmy awards, first for Family Feud in 1982 and later for The Price is Right in 1996.
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What's My Line? (Wikipedia)
Works Created: What's My Line?, Infobox: director
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Paul Munroe (1950) Franklin Heller (1950-1967) Frank Satenstein Paul Alter (1957-1961) Ira Skutch Lloyd Gross (1968-1975 syndicated version)
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