Biography
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.
Awards & recognition
- Kennedy Center Honors · 1993
- Presidential Medal of Freedom · 1992
- Primetime Emmy Award · 1992
- Peabody Awards · 1985
- American Library Association Honorary Membership · 1983
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- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography50+ titles
Butterfly in the Sky
Luther: Never Too Much
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
This Is Bob Hope...
The Simpsons
Koyaanisqatsi
Get Smart
John Candy: I Like Me
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
The Johnny Carson Show
The Jack Benny Program
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Cheers
Life Itself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Game Changers
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
The Red Skelton Show
The Seventies
Night Court
The Many Faces of Jim Carrey
Audrey
Lucy and Desi
My Darling Vivian
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
What's My Line?
The Nineties
Breakdown: 1975
Jerry Before Seinfeld
The Ed Sullivan Show
Here's Lucy
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Behind the Candelabra
Mike Wallace Is Here
Whitney: Can I Be Me
Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains
Lucy's Really Lost Moments
Untold: Caitlyn Jenner
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
The Capote Tapes
The Front Runner
Looking for Love
Gone Before His Time: Freddie Prinze Sr.
Finster
Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking