Answer: He created "Jeopardy." Question: Who was Merv Griffin?Answer: He had a hit with "I've got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts" in 1950. Question: Who was Merv Griffin?Answer: He wrote the theme song ...

Entertainer and businessman Merv Griffin, who created two of TV's longest-running game shows — Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune — died Sunday after a recurring bout with cancer. He was 82. He ...

Wherever he goes these days, Merv Griffin gets asked the same question: What is Ken Jennings really like? Griffin, who created “Jeopardy” in 1963 and wrote its brief, unforgettable theme song ...

Big-band crooner. Emmy-winning talk-show host. Game-show creator. Theme-song composer. Hotel magnate. Billionaire. Bon vivant. He assembled perhaps the single most unusual résumé in post-WWII ...

Merv Griffin never stopped working, ... He continued to receive royalties for the popular “Jeopardy!” theme song, which he wrote. But Griffin was nowhere near ready to retire.

The person who composed ‘Jeopardy!’s theme song. If you’re wondering who penned the game show’s iconic theme song, it was the show’s creator Merv ... Griffin who died in 2007, said the ...

Griffin, who created "Jeopardy" in 1963 and wrote its brief, unforgettable theme song, has not met the mild-mannered software engineer from Salt Lake City who has become a celebrity as the ...

Merv Griffin, who turned game shows such as "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" into a multi-million dollar entertainment empire, died of prostate cancer at age 82. A television critic talks about ...

LOS ANGELES | Merv Griffin, the big band-era crooner turned impresario who parlayed his “Jeopardy!" and “Wheel of Fortune" game shows into a multimillion-dollar empire, died Sunday. He was 82.

LOS ANGELES – Merv Griffin never stopped working, not until the very end. ... He continued to receive royalties for the popular “Jeopardy!” theme song, which he wrote.

Located near Palm Springs, Griffin’s former estate — which is Moroccan in its aesthetic — is ready for a new generation of stewards.