Ed McMahon

Ed McMahon was born on Mar 06, 1923 in USA. Ed McMahon's big-screen debut came with The Kraft Music Hall - Season 1 directed by Dwight Hemion in 1967, strarring Santa Claus. Ed McMahon is known for Swing Out, Sweet Land directed by Stan Harris, John Wayne stars as John Wayne - Host and Ann-Margret as Entertainer at Valley Forge. Ed McMahon has got 2 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Ed McMahon achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Ed McMahon plays is The Weather Man which will be released on Oct 28, 2005.

Ed McMahon's first appearance before a microphone was as a 15-year-old "caller" at a bingo game in Maine. After that, he spent the next three years touring the state fair and carnival circuit. A Marine fighter pilot during World War II, McMahon sold vegetable slicers on Atlantic City's boardwalk to put himself through Catholic University in Washington, DC. In the 1950s, he hosted a late-night interview show in Philadelphia before working as a clown on the show Big Top (1950). His next assignment was as a fighter pilot during the Korean War. After that, he resumed his career in television. In 1959, he was hired as Johnny Carson's straight man on the daytime quiz show Do You Trust Your Wife (1956). When Carson succeeded Jack Paar on NBC's Tonight Starring Jack Paar (1957), which became The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), he took McMahon with him. This job lasted for 30 years and made McMahon wealthy and famous. On the big screen, he played straight roles in the dramatic L'incident (1967) -- for which he got very good reviews -- and in the comic Touche pas à mon gazon (1977). He also appeared in made-for-TV movies and hosted daytime game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s, McMahon teamed with Dick Clark on TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes (1984) and hosted his own long-running talent show, Star Search (1983). He also made commercial appearances for a multitude of products. In 1994, he was cast as himself in Rendez-vous avec le destin (1994) with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening.