Gene Gene Dancing Machine from The Gong Show, Gene Patton, died Monday in Pasadena. He was 82. Gene Patton Dies Patton’s family announced his death Friday. A spokeswoman at the local Woods-Valentine Mortuary confirmed his passing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Patton had long suffered from diabetes, losing both of his legs to the disease […]
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- 3/14/2015
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
Gene Patton, the NBC stagehand in Burbank who stole the spotlight as Gene Gene the Dancing Machine on NBC’s wacky The Gong Show, died Monday, his family announced. He was 82. Patton died in Pasadena, according to a spokeswoman at the local Woods-Valentine Mortuary. He had suffered from diabetes. The Gong Show, dreamed up and hosted by producer Chuck Barris (The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game), aired on NBC in daytime from 1976-78 and then in syndication. Acts — most of them amateurish and just plain awful — auditioned for three celebrity judges, who banged a gong on
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- 3/13/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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