11 Facts About Ira Skutch

Ira Skutch was an American television director, producer, and, in his later years, an author.

Ira Skutch attended Dartmouth College where he graduated in 1941.

Ira Skutch had a younger brother, Robert Ira Skutch, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1946, and a younger sister Nancy.

Ira Skutch started as a page in New York for the National Broadcasting Company.

Ira Skutch worked as stage manager for the NBC shows NBC Television Theater, You Are an Artist and Kraft Television Theatre.

Ira Skutch directed, produced and wrote several episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse.

In 1957, producer Mark Goodson hired Ira Skutch to be on staff for Goodson-Todman Productions.

Ira Skutch was one of several directors on the original NBC version of Match Game from 1962 to 1969 and became most notably the producer and judge of the more memorable CBS version of Match Game from 1973 to 1979, as well as Match Game PM, and the daily syndicated version from 1979 to 1982.

Ira Skutch left Goodson-Todman in 1983, shortly after Mark Goodson formed his own production company, Mark Goodson Productions, after the death of his partner Bill Todman.

Ira Skutch died on March 16,2010, after a several year battle with lymphoma at the age of 88.

Ira Skutch died at the home of his daughter Lindsay in the neighborhood of Silver Lake, California.