Charles Van Doren, the former game show contestant whose life inspired the film Quiz Show, has died aged 93.
Charles Van Doren was himself a rising young academic at Columbia when he became famous on the quiz show.
His father, Mark Van Doren, was a critic, biographer and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1940.
Van Doren also disclosed that he eventually did watch Quiz Show and laughed at an insulting reference that a character made about him.
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