Johnny Carson

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Johnny Carson

Acting October 23, 1925

Corning, Iowa, USA

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 Starrin…

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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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  1. 2026
    Soccer's American Dream

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  2. 2025
    Breakdown: 1975

    Movie Self - Host, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (archive footage)

  3. 2025
    Raise the Flags: 50 Years of Buccaneers Football

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  4. 2025
    John Candy: I Like Me

    Movie Self - Host, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (archive footage)

  5. 2024
  6. 2024
    Luther: Never Too Much

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  7. 2024
    Bad Hostage

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  8. 2024
    Jim Henson Idea Man

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  9. 2024
    Butterfly in the Sky

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  10. 2023
    Gone Before His Time: Freddie Prinze Sr.

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  11. 2023
    The Man Who Stole Einstein's Brain

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  12. 2023
    Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  13. 2023
    The Many Faces of Jim Carrey

    Movie Self (Archive Footage)

  14. 2022
    Untold: Caitlyn Jenner

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  15. 2022
    Finster

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  16. 2022
    Lucy and Desi

    Movie Self (archive footage)

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  1. 2021
    The Capote Tapes

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  2. 2021
    Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  3. 2020
    Audrey

    Movie Self - TV Host (archive footage)

  4. 2020
    My Darling Vivian

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  5. 2020
    The Sounds of Baseball

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  6. 2020
    The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  7. 2020
    The Great Toilet Paper Scare

    Movie Himself

  8. 2019
    Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  9. 2019
    Mike Wallace Is Here

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  10. 2019
    Jeff Dunham: Talking Heads

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  11. 2019
    Biography: Comedy Icons

    TV show Self

  12. 2018
    The Front Runner

    Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  13. 2018
    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    Movie Self - TV Host (archive footage)

  14. 2018
    Game Changers

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  15. 2017
    This Is Bob Hope...

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  16. 2017
    There's... Johnny!

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  17. 2017
    Jerry Before Seinfeld

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  18. 2017
    The Nineties

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  19. 2017
    Whitney: Can I Be Me

    Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  20. 2017
    The Swingin' A's

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  21. 2015
    The Seventies

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  22. 2014
    Mr. Baseball, Bob Uecker

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  23. 2014
    Life Itself

    Movie Self - TV Host (archive footage)

  24. 2014
    The Battered Bastards of Baseball

    Movie Himself (Archive Footage)