The Ed Sullivan Show
Genre: Comedy · Music · Talk · News ·
Release Date: June 20, 1948
Status: Ended
Seasons: 24
Episodes: 1068
Running time: 1h
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Plot.
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows.
In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Where To Watch.

Currently The Ed Sullivan Show is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Pluto TV
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.

Teresa Brewer
Self / Self - Singer / Self - Vocalist

Frank Shuster
Comedian / Self - Comedian / Self / Self - Guest Host

Jack Carter
Self - Comedian / Self / Self - Audience Bow

Alan King
Self - Comedian / Self / Self - Singer

Pearl Bailey
Self / Self - Singer

Sam Levenson
Self

Rickie Layne
Self / Self - Ventriloquist / Self - ventriloquist / Ventriloquist

Tony Bennett
Self - Singer / Self - Audience Bow

Eartha Kitt
Self / Self - Singer

Marion Marlowe
Self / Self - Guest Host

Jean Carroll
Self / Self - Comedian / Self - Comedienne

Richard Hearne
Self / Mr. Pastry

Louis Armstrong
Self / Self - Trumpeter / Self - Singer / Self - Band Leader

Roger Williams
Self / Self - Pianist / Pianist

Dick Martin
Comedian / Self - Comedian / Self

Richard Rodgers
Self / Self - Composer / Self - Honoree

Nat King Cole
Self / Self - Pianist

Anna Maria Alberghetti
Self / Self - Singer / Self - Audience Bow

Tony Martin
Self / Self - Singer / Self - Guest Host

Phil Silvers
Self / Self - Guest Host / Self / MSgt. Ernest G. Bilko

Rosemary Clooney
Self

Connie Francis
Self - Singer / Self

Bern Bennett
Self - Announcer

Julius La Rosa
Self

Patti Page
Self / Self - Singer / Self - Guest Hostess

Mimi Benzell
Self / Self - Singer

Carol Haney
Self

Charles Dale
Self / Self - Comedian

Joe Smith
Self / Self - Comedian

Art Carney
Self / Ed Norton / Self / Poor Soul Sketch / Frank Michaelson / Santa Claus / Cosmo - King of Evil / Self - Comedian

Johnny Wayne
Self - Comedian / Self / Comedian / Self - Guest Host

Jack Carter
Self - Comedian / Self / Self - Master of Ceremonies

Señor Wences
Self - Ventriloquist / Self

Red Buttons
Self - Comedian / Self / Self - Comedian / Singer / Self - Guest / Self - Singer

Oscar Hammerstein II
Self / Self - Lyricist

Jan Murray
Self - Comedian / Self

Peggy Lee
Self / Self - Singer / Singer

Georgia Gibbs
Self / Self - Singer

Joe E. Lewis
Self / Self - Comedian

Jack E. Leonard
Self

Abbe Lane
Self / Self - Singer

Duke Ellington
Self / Self - Pianist / Self - Band Leader

Robert Merrill
Self / Self - Singer

Cab Calloway
Self - Singer / Self

Hal Le Roy
Self / Self - Tap Dancer

Rex Harrison
Self / Self (archive footage)

Jackie Gleason
Self / Self / The Poor Soul / Ralph Kramden / Ralph Kramden / The Poor Soul / Self / The Poor Soul / Fenwick Babbitt / Ralph Kramden / Self - Comedian / Self - Guest Host / Self / The Poor Soul

Sugar Ray Robinson
Self / Self - Boxer / Self - Magician's Assistant / Self (archive footage)

Gracie Fields
Self - Guest Host / Self / Singer

Billy De Wolfe
Self

Eddie Fisher
Self / Self - Singer

Sophie Tucker
Self / Self - Singer

Risë Stevens
Self / Self - opera star / Self - Opera Soprano

Johnnie Ray
Self / Self (archive footage) / Self - Singer

Lucille Ball
Self / Self - Actress / Self - Singer

Patachou
Self / Self (archive footage) / Self - Singer

Burt Lancaster
Self / Self (archive footage)

Sammy Davis Jr.
Self / Self - Singer / Self - Singer / Dancer / Self - Singer and Dancer

Charlton Heston
Self / Self (archive footage) / Self - Dramatic Reading / Dramatic Reader / Actor - Dramatic Reading

Paul Anka
Self - Singer / Self

Jerry Stiller
Self - Comedian / Self / Trinculo

Johnny Mathis
Self / Singer / Self - Singer

Joan Rivers
Self - Comedienne / Self - Singer

Pat C. Flick
Self / Self - Heckler

Vaughn Monroe
Self / Self - Singer

Jack Paar
Self / Himself / Self - Guest Host

Byron Nelson
Self / Self - Golfer

José Greco
Self / Self - Guest

Gregory Peck
Self / Self (archive footage)

Debbie Reynolds
Self / Self - Singer / Self (uncredited) / Self - Dancer (archive footage) / Self - Cameo

Harry Belafonte
Self / Self - Singer / Self (archive footage) / Self - Singer (archive footage)

Ethel Merman
Self - Singer / Self (archive footage) / Self / Self - Guest Host

Hermione Gingold
Self

Xavier Cugat
Self / Self - Band Leader

Henry Fonda
Self / Self (archive footage) / Actor - Dramatic Reading

Red Skelton
Self / Self - Comedian / Self - Guest Host / Self - Guest

Polly Bergen
Self / Singer / Self (archive footage)

Sergio Franchi
Self - Singer / Tenor / Self / Singer / Opera Singer

Anne Meara
Self - Comedienne / Self

Jerry Vale
Self - Singer / Singer / Self - Audience Bow / Self

Joey Adams
Self / Self - Comedian / Self - Comedian / Singer

Peter Lind Hayes
Self / Self - Singer

Nancy Walker
Self / Self - Comedian

Rudy Vallee
Self - Singer / Self

Jane Kean
Self / Self - Comedienne

Lilli Palmer
Self

Betty Kean
Self / Self - Comedian / Singer

Johnny Carson
Self / Self - Comedian / Self - Comedian (archive footage)

Helen Gallagher
Self

Carol Channing
Self - Singer / Self / Mrs. Dunkelmayer - scene from 'Four on a Garden'

Joseph E. Howard
Self / Self - Singer

Fred Astaire
Self / Self (archive footage)

Joyce Grenfell
Self

Julia Meade
Self / Self (uncredited)

Gordon MacRae
Self / Self - Singer-Impressionist / Self (archive footage)

Della Reese
Self / Self - Singer

Mary Healy
Self

Nanette Fabray
Self / Self - Singer

Vic Damone
Self / Self - Singer

Monica Lewis
Self - Singer / Self - singer

Jan Peerce
Self / Singer

Jessica Tandy
Self - Guest / The Public in a scene from 'A Pound on Demand' / Self

Sarah Vaughan
Self / Self - Singer / Self - Vocalist

Al Bernie
Self - Comedian / Self

Peg Leg Bates
Self

Cesare Siepi
Self

Arthur Worsley
Self / Self - Ventriloquist / Self - British ventriloquist

Will Jordan
Self

Don Everly
Self

Phil Everly
Self

Lillian Roth
Self

Frank Sinatra
Self (archive footage) / Self - Singer / Self - Guest Host

Eddie Albert
Self / Self - Singer / Dramatic Reader

George Carlin
Self - Comedian

Rodney Dangerfield
Self - Comedian / Self - Audience Bow

Pinky Lee
Self

Juanita Hall
Self / Self - Singer

Jane Froman
Self / Self - Guest Host

Lauritz Melchior
Self

Hume Cronyn
Self / Jerry in a scene from 'A Pound on Demand' / Self - Actor

Kirk Douglas
Self - Guest / Self - Guest Host / Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Boyd
Self

Phil Rizzuto
Self

Robert Mitchum
Self (archive footage) / Self - Guest

Humphrey Bogart
Self / Self (archive footage) / Self - Actor

Harry Mimmo
Self

James Cagney
Self / Self (uncredited) / Sean Lenihan (archive footage)

Pat Henning
Self / Self - Comedian

Mindy Carson
Self

Mickey Rooney
Self / Sketch Actor / Self - Comedian

Andrés Segovia
Self / Self - Classical guitarist

Errol Flynn
Self / Self (archive footage)

Leslie Caron
Self (archive footage) / Self

James Melton
Self / Self - Opera Tenor

Louis Prima
Self - Singer / Self - Singer / Trumpeter / Singer / Self

Rita Hayworth
Self (archive footage) / Self

Celeste Holm
Self / Actress in scene from Third Best Sport

Clifton Webb
Self (archive footage) / Self - Guest

Van Johnson
Self / Self (archive footage) / Self - Singer

Hilde Güden
Self

Eddie Mayehoff
Self

Tony Curtis
Self / Self (archive footage)

Shelley Winters
Self - Guest / Self

Robert Wagner
Self / Self (archive footage)

Dody Goodman
Self - Comedian / Comedian

Danny Thomas
Self / Self - Comedian / Singer

Russell Nype
Self

Billy Daniels
Self / Singer

Franco Corelli
Self - Opera tenor / Self - Opera Singer / Self - Italian Tenor / Self

Joan Sutherland
Self / Opera Singer / Opera soprano / Self - Soprano

John Huston
Self / Self (archive footage)

Larry Fine
Larry / Self - the Three Stooges

Soupy Sales
Self - Comedian / Self - Comedian-Singer / Self - Comedian (archive footage)

Ann-Margret
Self / Self - Singer / Dancer / Self - Audience Bow / Self (archive footage)

Rip Taylor
Self - Comedian

Leslie Uggams
Self - Singer / Self - Singers

Flip Wilson
Self / Self - Comedian

Nancy Sinatra
Self - Singer

James Stewart
Self

Chester Gould
Self

Mitzi Gaynor
Self / Self (archive footage)

Charles Boyer
Self / Self (archive footage)

Betty Grable
Self - Guest / Self (archive footage)

Carol Bruce
Self / Self - Singer

Jack Palance
Self / Caliban / Self

W. C. Handy
Self - Musician / Self

Robert Taylor
Self / Self (archive footage)

Gordon Jenkins
Self / Self - Orchestra / Choir Leader

Phyllis Diller
Self - Comedian / Self

Guy Lombardo
Self / Self - Orchestra Leader

Brigitte Bardot
Self / Self (archive footage)

Judy Garland
Self - Singer / Self

Dave Barry
Self - Comedian

Joe DeRita
Curly Joe / Self - the Three Stooges

Juliet Prowse
Self - Dancer / Dancer

Moe Howard
Moe / Self - the Three Stooges

Harvey Lembeck
Self / Cpl. Rocco Barbella / Self

Allan Melvin
Self / Self / Cpl. Steve Henshaw

Billy Sands
Self / Pvt. Dino Paparelli / Self

Clayton Moore
Self

Mario Lanza
Self (uncredited) / Self (archive footage)

Terry Moore
Self / Self (archive footage)

Cedric Hardwicke
Self / Koichi Asano - Character in Scene from 'A Majority of One'
