Kevin McCarthy is an

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television director.

Career

He is best known as the director of the syndicated

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'', and before that, he served as the show's associate director from the start in 1984 until taking the main director position in 1992 (replacing Dick Schneider), a role in which he held for 26 years until the end of the 2017–18 season, when he announced his retirement on June 26, 2018. He was replaced by Clay Jacobsen. He also directed ''Jeopardy!'s'' spin-off programs ''

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'' on

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and ''

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'' on

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, and co-directed another

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-created game show, '' Click''.

Awards

McCarthy has been nominated 21 times for ''Jeopardy!'' in the

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, and won the award 8 times.Daytime Awards - Winners

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. Retrieved 2007-08-01.

References

External links

* American television directors Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Jeopardy! {{tv-director-stub