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- Birth nameJay Stewart Fix
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Jay Stewart was born on September 6, 1918 in Summitville, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Explorers (1985), Let's Make a Deal (1963) and The Price Is Right (1956). He died on September 17, 1989 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Mother was screen and television actress Ress Fix (née Ressie Mae Jenkins).
- Jay Stewart was an MC on a local TV show Town Hall Party in Compton, California, in the 1950s.
- Jay Stewart was probably best known as the announcer on the long running game show "Let's Make a Deal", in which he appeared throughout the 1960s and 1970s on the original Daytime Let's Make a Deal (1963), the Primetime series, and the syndicated Let's Make a Deal (1971). "Let's Make a Deal" host Monty Hall called Stewart "the best second banana you ever found in your life" and said that "it was a very, very good feeling between us.".
- Besides his duties on the NBC Daytime game show Sale of the Century (1983), Stewart was tapped to announce Scrabble (1984), another NBC Daytime game show from Reg Grundy Productions. However, Stewart was replaced on "Scrabble" by Charlie Tuna in 1985, the same year the nighttime syndicated version of "Sale of the Century" begin production.
- Stewart was hired to be the announcer on Let's Make a Deal (1963) when it became a series. Stewart stayed with all versions of "Let's Make a Deal" from 1963 until 1977. Wendell Niles announced the pilot for "Let's Make a Deal" but did not want to take a risk and leave Your First Impression (1961) to announce the show when it got picked up to be a series.
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