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Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen was an American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, writer, and advocate of scientific skepticism. In 1954, he achieved national fame as the co-creator and first host of The Tonight Show, which was the first late night television talk show.
Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his extensive network television career. He gained national attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. After he hosted The Tonight Show, he went on to host numerous game and variety shows, including his own The Steve Allen Show, I've Got a Secret, and The New Steve Allen Show. He was a regular pan…
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Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen was an American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, writer, and advocate of scientific skepticism. In 1954, he achieved national fame as the co-creator and first host of The Tonight Show, which was the first late night television talk show. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his extensive network television career. He gained national attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. After he hosted The Tonight Show, he went on to host numerous game and variety shows, including his own The Steve Allen Show, I've Got a Secret, and The New Steve Allen Show. He was a regular panel member on CBS's What's My Line?, and from 1977 until 1981 wrote, produced, and hosted the award-winning public broadcasting show Meeting of Minds, a series of historical dramas presented in a talk format. Allen was a pianist and a prolific composer. By his own estimate, he wrote more than 8,500 songs, some of which were recorded by numerous leading singers. Working as a lyricist, Allen won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition. He also wrote more than 50 books, including novels, children's books, and books of opinions, including his final book, Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio. In 1996 Allen was presented with the Martin Gardner Lifetime Achievement Award from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSICOP). He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Hollywood theater named in his honor.
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (voice) (archive sound)
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
as Self (archive footage)
Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley
as Self
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
Tab Hunter Confidential
as Self (archive)
Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read
as Self (archive footage)
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
as Self (archive footage)
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
as Self (archive footage)
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
as Self (archive footage)
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
as Self (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Self (archive footage)
Elvis: Rare Moments with the King
as Self (archive footage)
The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years
as Self (archive footage)
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
as Self (archive footage)
50 Years of NBC Late Night
as Self (archive footage)
On and Off the Res' with Charlie Hill
as Himself
Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club
as Self
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
as Self
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
On the Road to Desolation
as Self
Rodney Dangerfield's 75th Birthday Toast
as Self
Nichols and May: Take Two
as Self
Abbott & Costello Meet Biography
as Self
Casino
as Steve Allen
James Dean: A Portrait
as Self
James Dean and Me
as Self (uncredited)
The Player
as Steve Allen
Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
as Self
Rodney Dangerfield's The Really Big Show
as Self
WWE WrestleMania VI
as Self
Great Balls of Fire!
as Steve Allen
Richard Lewis: I'm Exhausted
as Self
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self
Amazon Women on the Moon
as Steve Allen (segment "Roast Your Loved One")
TV's Funniest Comedians - 14 Stars Do Classic Routines
as Self
Classic Comedy Teams
as Host
The Ratings Game
as Steve Allen
Computability: How to Make the Most of Your Home Computer
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
as Self
The Making of the Stooges
as Self - Host
Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983
The Funny Farm
as Self
Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius
as Self
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
Heart Beat
as Steve Allen
The Gossip Columnist
as Steve Allen
The Power of the Market
Stone
as Steve Allen
The Muppets Go Hollywood
as Self (uncredited)
No Poster
The Vent Event
Have I Got a Christmas for You
as Martin Kaplan
Lucy Calls the President
as Steve Allen
No Poster
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as (archive footage)
No Poster
On Location: Myron Cohen
as Self - Host
Bob Hope's Bicentennial Star-Spangled Spectacular
as Self
Joys
as Self
The Sunshine Boys
as Self
The Sunshine Boys
as Narrator of Fictional TV Program (uncredited)
Mitzi & 100 Guys
as Self
James Dean Remembered
as Self
Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
as Self / DJ (archive footage)
The Comic
as Steve Allen
Now You See It, Now You Don't
as Herschel Lucas
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
as Radio Announcer
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
Warning Shot
as Steve Allen
Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
as Bookstore Customer with Little Boy (uncredited)
The Universal Mind of Bill Evans
College Confidential
as Steve MacInter
The Big Circus
as Self
The Benny Goodman Story
as Benny Goodman
Allen in Movieland
as Self
I'll Get By
as Peter Pepper
Down Memory Lane
as Steve Allen