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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 138

self 117

Movies 98

TV Shows 40

Writer 2

Creator 1

Self

Johnny Carson

Biography

Filmography

all 138

self 117

Movies 98

TV Shows 40

Writer 2

Creator 1

Gone Before His Time: Freddie Prinze Sr. (2023)

Donyale Luna: Supermodel (2023)

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (2023)

Love to Love You, Donna Summer (2023)

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)

Finster (2022)

Lucy and Desi (2022)

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)

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

The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s (2002)

The Ocean's 11 Story (2001)

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 years of Laughter Volume 1 (2001)

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 years of Laughter Volume 2 (2001)

The Newton Boys (1998)

The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (1998)

George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy (1997)

Bob Hope: Laughing With the Presidents (1996)

E! True Hollywood Story (1996)

The World of Jim Henson (1994)

Known For
Acting