- Born
- Died
- Birth nameEugene Edward Wood
- Gene Wood was a prolific game show announcer during the 1970s and 1980s. Most often heard over Goodson-Todman (later Mark Goodson Productions) game shows, he was the voice that introduced game shows including "Card Sharks", "Tattletales," "Classic Concentration," "Password Plus"/"Super Password" and "Family Feud." Few fans will ever forget his beckoning contestants to get "ready for action!"; and "On your marks, let's start ... the 'FAMILY FEUUUDDD!'" or the sotto whisper of "The password is ..." Wood's first regular run as an announcer (after several substitute jobs in the 1960s) was on the 1969 version of "Beat the Clock," which Wood later hosted. In the mid-1990s, he retired from the world of game show announcing, apparently bitter over younger announcers taking his place.- IMDb mini biography by: Brian Rathjen <briguy_52732@yahoo.com>
- SpouseCarleen Anderson(1960 - May 21, 2004) (his death)
- ChildrenTimothy WoodMia WoodSasha Wood
- His loud, recognizable voice
- He worked as an announcer at Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, as an announcer, from 1969 to 1995.
- Prolific game show announcer.
- After Johnny Olson's death in 1985, he was one of the 4 guest-announcers on The New Price Is Right (1972), who lost the announcing job to Rod Roddy, because his voice wasn't good enough for the show.
- Was of English descent.
- Was a graduate of Emerson College in Boston, MA.
- They keep recycling the same old formats and the same old concepts. Eventually, the audience gets tired of those and they want to see something new.
- Thank You, Richard. Thank you, America.
- Ray Combs was one of the nicest, funniest, most talented men I've ever met in the business. He was a young man with such a bright future ahead. It's tragically sad what happened to him. He is missed.
- The shows kept hiring younger announcers for the roles. Eventually I decided to call it a career and relocated back to New England.
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