The famous comedy writer Jack Douglas and his wife Reiko Douglas, who was known for her role in the 1974 movie Tattletales, are no longer alive.
The American game show Tattletales asked couples questions about their personal lives, and if their answers were the same, they won money. Bert Convy, who has won an Emmy Award, was the host of the CBS show about celebrity couples.
The couple Douglas was also well-known for how often they appeared on the show. Jack Douglas is also known for being on shows like The Tonight Show and Jack Paar Tonight that were hosted by Jack Paar.
Tattletales’ Reiko and Jack Douglas whereabouts
Reiko and Jack Douglas from the TV show Tattletales are both dead as of today’s date.
Jack Douglas married the Japanese singer and comedian Reiko Hashimoto. She didn’t know much about American life and language. Many shows made fun of how she tried to fit in with American culture and how little she knew of the English language.
The couple moved to Los Angeles with their kids, and Jack died two years later. He died of pneumonia on January 31, 1989, when he was 80 years old.
After her husband died, Reiko kept going as a panellist and performer on her own. She died at West Hills Hospital on September 9, 1989, when she was 77 years old. She had cancer and died because she had smoked for a long time.
Reiko and Jack Douglas Got Married
The Japanese and American couple had two sons together and had been married for more than thirty years.
Jack was a well-known author who had been married three times and had a total of five children from all of his marriages. He dated Eleanor Thatcher for less than a month. Then, in 1937, he married Merie Dean Crain. They later split up.
In 1949, Jack married popular American singer and actress Marion Hutton for the second time. They had a son named Peter, and then they broke up.
Jack Douglas was a comedy writer who lived from 1908 to 1989. He was best known for coming on Jack Paar’s shows often in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Reiko Hashimoto, a singer and comedian who was born in Japan, was his third wife.
Reiko was his third wife, and the two of them were married for a long time until he died. Robert and Timothy, their two sons, were a blessing.
Reiko and Jack Douglas profession
Jack was known for his funny columns, series, radio shows, and TV shows. His wife, Reiko, was a Japanese panellist and entertainer.
In his career, the comedy writer who has won an Emmy has written for Jimmy Durante, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Johny Carson, and many more. He has written more than 12 funny books, and most of them were big hits.
Reiko first showed up on American TV on Jack Paar’s show. She was dressed in traditional Japanese clothes. She didn’t speak English, so her husband helped her out on most of the shows by translating.
On the shows Tattletales, The Mike Douglas Show, and He Said, She Said, they were a lot of fun to watch.