Julius "Nipsey" Russell was an African-American comedian, best known today for his many appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, especially "Match Game", "Password", "Hollywood Squares", "To Tell the Truth" and "Pyramid". His appearances were distinguished in part by the short, humorous poems he would recite during the broadcast. Wikipedia
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Veteran of television, movies, and the stage, Nipsey Russell died Sunday of cancer at his Manhattan apartment. wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_276141748.html
All Things Considered , October 4, 2005 Comedian Nipsey Russell died Sunday at age 80 from cancer. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4945317
Nipsey Russell, the comedian whose one-liners and impromptu rhymes made him one of television's popular talk-show guests and game-show panelists during the 1970's, died on Sunday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/arts/04russell.html?ex=1286078...
Nipsey Russell, an actor and comedian whose impromptu versifying was familiar in years past to TV game show and late-night talk show audiences, died Oct. 2 of cancer at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/03/...
Actor Nipsey Russell was probably best known for playing the Tin Man in The Wiz . He most recently appeared on the game show Hollywood Squares . ... I remember meeting Nipsey when I was an aspiring actress in NYC in the 80's. What a nice manâ¦he lashawnbarber.com/archives/2005/10/04/russell/
In daytime television, Nipsey hosted "Your Number's Up," a 13 week interlude of game shows for NBC-TV. Possibly one of his proudest achievements was his three years as M.C., Mirthmaker, and Kiddie interviewer on the cable stanzas of Barry-Enright's "Juve www.delafont.com/comedians/Nipsey-Russell.htm