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Ed Sullivan
Ed Sullivan
Ed Sullivan was an American television personality, sports and entertainment reporter, and longtime syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.
He is principally remembered as the creator and host of the television variety program The Toast of the Town, later popularly - and, eventually, officially - renamed The Ed Sullivan Show.
Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in US broadcast history.
Ed Sullivan was an American television personality, sports and entertainment reporter, and longtime syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.
He is principally remembered as the creator and host of the television variety program The Toast of the Town, later popularly - and, eventually, officially - renamed The Ed Sullivan Show.
Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in US broadcast history.
Ed Sullivan was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1985.
Awards & Nominations
The Television Academy database lists prime-time Emmy information. Click here to learn more
Producer Robert Precht and Ed Sullivan at Shea Stadium for a Beatles concert August 15, 1965
Statue of Ed Sullivan in the Hall of Fame Garden. Sculpture by Robert Jacobs.
In The News
Ed Sullivan: Hall of Fame Tribute
House Party
If These Walls Could Talk…
Where in the World is Ed Sullivan?