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Johnny Carson

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1925-10-23

Deathday: 2005-01-23 (79 years old)

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.

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Filmography

all 152

self 132

Movies 110

TV Shows 42

Writer 2

Creator 1

Self - Host, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson

Biography

Filmography

all 152

self 132

Movies 110

TV Shows 42

Writer 2

Creator 1

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Jim Henson Idea Man (2024)

Faye (2024)

Butterfly in the Sky (2024)

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The Man Who Stole Einstein's Brain (2023)

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (2023)

Love to Love You, Donna Summer (2023)

The Playboy Murders (2023)

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)

Finster (2022)

Lucy and Desi (2022)

Superstar: Robin Williams (2021)

Live at Mister Kelly's (2021)

Untold: Caitlyn Jenner (2021)

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)

The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O'Neill (2021)

Audrey (2020)

Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity (2020)

The Sounds of Baseball (2020)

My Darling Vivian (2020)

The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (2020)

The Great Toilet Paper Scare (2020)

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019)

Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)

Jeff Dunham: Talking Heads (2019)

Biography: Comedy Icons (2019)

The Front Runner (2018)

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

Game Changers (2018)

This Is Bob Hope... (2017)

Jerry Before Seinfeld (2017)

The Nineties (2017)

Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017)

The Swingin' A's (2017)

0 and 26 (2016)

Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl (2016)

Conspiracy Theorists Lie (2015)

Paradise Garden: Howard Finster's Legacy (2014)

Life Itself (2014)

And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)

The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)

The Other Shore: The Diana Nyad Story (2013)

Llyn Foulkes One Man Band (2013)

Behind the Candelabra (2013)

Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story (2013)

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (2013)

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013)

Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read (2013)

Johnny Carson: King of Late Night (2012)

Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man (2012)

Jeff Dunham: Birth of a Dummy (2011)

Paul Williams Still Alive (2011)

JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America (2009)

The Minnie Riperton Story (2009)

Johnny Carson Celebrates Christmas (2008)

Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains (2007)

The Best of The Tonight Show: Stand - Up Comedians (2007)

The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show' (2007)

The Best of Carson, Volume 1 (2006)

Carson Country (2006)

The Last Mogul (2005)

Seinfeld: How It Began (2004)

Live and Swingin': The Ultimate Rat Pack Collection (2003)

Biography: Bob Hope: America's Entertainer (2003)

When Stand Up Stood Out (2003)

The Ultimate Collection starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 70s and 80s (2002)