Bud Collyer - Death

Death

When To Tell the Truth was planned to be revived for syndication, producers Mark Goodson and Bill Todman wanted Collyer to once again host the show. However, when they called Collyer, he declined, citing his poor health. When Goodson and Todman called Moore about the job, he immediately contacted Collyer, who said to Moore that "I am just not up to it." Collyer died at age 61 from a circulatory ailment in Greenwich, Connecticut, on the same day To Tell The Truth was revived in syndication. At the time of his death, he was married to 1930s movie actress Marian Shockley, with whom he had three children. In 1957, his son Mike appeared as a guest challenger on the To Tell the Truth show, under the name of "Pat Rizzuto". His brother, Richard V. "Dick" Heermance, film editor and producer, also appeared as a contestant on To Tell the Truth as himself on October 21, 1958. Two of the panelists voted for him, even though he looked nothing like his brother. Bud Collyer is interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich. In 1985, he was posthumously named as one of the honorees by DC Comics in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great. His daughter, Cynthia, a former television personality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, had taken up residence in Mequon, Wisconsin as of February 2009.