Jay Wolpert is an American television producer and screenwriter.
His first television appearance came as a contestant on the original version of Jeopardy! in 1969. He competed in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions that year.
He later worked as a producer and creator of game shows for Goodson-Todman Productions. From 1972 to 1982, Wolpert produced The Price Is Right, and in 1976 he created and produced Double Dare, also for Goodson-Todman. After leaving The Price is Right he formed his own production company, creating and producing various other game and reality shows, including Whew! (1979, CBS), Hit Man (1983, NBC), Blackout (1988, CBS) Rodeo Drive (1990, Lifetime), Shopping Spree and Wait 'til You Have Kids! (both in 1996 on The Family Channel). More recently, Wolpert has turned to screenwriting, writing the script for The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) and receiving a story credit for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).
