Ed Sullivan
American television host (1901-1974) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 73
Edward Vincent Sullivan was an American television host, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.
Ed Sullivan is read about 1,103 times a day, in 44 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 122 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Elvis on TourFilm1971Trustees AwardAward1970
The Flip Wilson ShowSeries1966
The Singing NunFilm, Himself1963
Bye Bye BirdieFilm, Himself1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSeries1959Golden Globe AwardsAward1958
Kraft Music HallSeries
Senior PromFilm, 1958Himself1955
The Phil Silvers ShowSeries1953
General Electric TheaterSeries, Ed Sullivan1950
The Jack Benny ProgramSeries, Ed Sullivan1949
The Emmy AwardsSeries1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries, Producer1940
Alice in MovielandFilm, Writer1933
Mr. BroadwayFilm, Writer1901Born28 September 1901Known for
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Jim Henson Idea Man 2024
Listen to Me Marlon 2015
When You're Strange 2010
Beatles '64 2024
Bye Bye Birdie 1963
People around Ed
Close ties
Art Carney Ed produced The Great Santa Claus Switch (1970)
Jean Negulesco Directed Alice in Movieland (1940)
Henry Koster Directed The Singing Nun (1966)
George Sidney Directed Bye Bye Birdie (1963)- Norman Z. McLeod Directed There Goes My Heart (1938)
Irving Bacon Ed wrote There Goes My Heart (1938)
Arthur Lubin Directed Big Town Czar (1939)- Gordon Hollingshead Produced Alice in Movieland (1940)
Johnnie Walker Directed Mr. Broadway (1933)- Harold D. Schuster Directed Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me! (1940)
Fred Kohlmar Produced Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Filmography 40
71 credits on file
Television 13
Media & music
Photos 7
Sullivan with Cole Porter on Toast of the Town, 1952
Carmen Miranda on Toast of the Town, 1953
Sullivan congratulates 13-year-old Itzhak Perlman after a concert in Tel Aviv, 1958.
Sullivan, in full clown regalia, hosting the 1972 special Clownaround
Sullivan with his wife Sylvia during his convalescence at Griffin Hospital, 1956
Sullivan's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Awards
About this person
He was the creator and host of the television variety program Toast of the Town, which in 1955 was renamed The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in U.S. broadcast history. "It was, by almost any measure, the last great American TV show", said television critic David Hinckley. "It's one of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories."
