Johnny Carson

Acting · Born 1925-10-23 (died at 79) · Corning, Iowa, USA

58 movies · 38 TV shows

John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). Carson received six Primetime Emmy Awards, the Television Academy's 1980 Governor's Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.

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Johnny Carson

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The Simpsons

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Tony Awards

Cheers

Get Smart

Newhart

The Red Skelton Show

Night Court

What's My Line?

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

The Ed Sullivan Show

Miss Universe

Here's Lucy

The Jack Benny Program

The Steve Allen Show

The Bob Hope Show

The Oscars

The United States Steel Hour

Kraft Music Hall

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Dick Clark Show

The Wonderful World of Disney

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

Space Ghost and Dino Boy

The Nineties

John Candy: I Like Me

Behind the Candelabra

Jim Henson Idea Man

The Seventies

The Front Runner

The Danny Thomas Hour

The Emmy Awards

Soccer's American Dream

Audrey

Koyaanisqatsi

Breakdown: 1975

There's... Johnny!

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

E! True Hollywood Story

Lucy and Desi

Raise the Flags: 50 Years of Buccaneers Football

Pure Goldie

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Jerry Before Seinfeld

The World of Jim Henson

The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Joys

My Darling Vivian

The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There

Biography: Comedy Icons

Life Itself

It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration

NBC: The First Fifty Years

Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story

Looking for Love

The Garry Shandling Show: 25th Anniversary Special

Mike Wallace Is Here

Whitney: Can I Be Me

The Johnny Carson Show

Game Changers

The Sounds of Baseball

The Many Faces of Jim Carrey

50 Years of NBC Late Night

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

Cancel My Reservation

Carnival Nights

Frank Sinatra Spectacular

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

This Is Bob Hope...

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business

Mickey's 50

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

The Best of Carson, Volume 1

Untold: Caitlyn Jenner