Walter O'Keefe

Walter O'Keefe (August 18, 1900 – June 26, 1983) was an American songwriter, actor, syndicated columnist, Broadway composer, radio legend, screenwriter, musical arranger and TV host.

[1] He attended the College of the Sacred Heart in Wimbledon, London before entering the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana in 1916.

By 1937, he wrote a syndicated humor column and filled in for such radio personalities as Walter Winchell, Edgar Bergen, Don McNeill and Garry Moore.

He became the long-time master of ceremonies of the NBC show Double or Nothing and was a regular on that network's Monitor series.

When the show's usual host Herb Shriner had other commitments during the summer of 1954, O'Keefe took over for three months.