Patti Deutsch

During her improv years, Deutsch met her future husband, comedy screenwriter and playwright Donald Ross. They married in 1968 and had three children: Max Ross, Lee Sachnoff and Alexis Hill. Both Deutsch and Ross appeared the same week as guests on Match Game '74.

From 1972 to 1973, Deutsch was a regular cast member on the final season of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, where she worked with her future Match Game panelist Richard Dawson.

From 1973 to 1979, Deutsch was a recurring celebrity panelist on Match Game, and became a popular fixture in the number six seat. She also occasionally appeared on Tattletales with her husband.

In 1978, Deutsch appeared in the short-lived television series Grandpa Goes to Washington.

She made a cameo appearance in the 1983 movie Mr. Mom, playing The Deli Girl.

On March 7, 2008, she appeared as a guest on GSN's interstitial program GSN Live.

In 2009, Deutsch, along with Match Game co-panelists Joyce Bulifant and Nancy Dussault, attended the GSN Game Show Awards to accept the "Favorite Classic Game Show" award on behalf of Match Game. During their acceptance speeches, Deutsch, Bulifant and Dussault fondly remembered their friends, host Gene Rayburn and fellow panelist Charles Nelson Reilly.

Deutsch died on July 26, 2017 at age 73 of cancer, at home in Los Angeles. Her husband also had cancer, and died on June 1, 2018.