Steve Allen
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Born:
Dec 26, 1921

Died:
Oct 30, 2000

Age: 78 Deceased

From:
New York City, New York, USA

Department:
Acting

Total Credits: 136

Avg Rating: 7

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Steve Allen

Also known as: Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen, Steven Allen, Steve Allen Jr.

Biography

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 ...

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (voice) (archive sound) 2022
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Self (archive footage) 2021
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Self (archive footage) 2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
Self (archive) 2015
Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read
Self (archive footage) 2013
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
Self (archive footage) 2010
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
Self (archive footage) 2007
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
Self (archive footage) 2007
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
Self (archive footage) 2007
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self (archive footage) 2005
Elvis: Rare Moments with the King
Self (archive footage) 2003
The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years
Self (archive footage) 2002
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
Self (archive footage) 2001
On and Off the Res' with Charlie Hill
Himself 2000
Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club
Self 1999
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
Self 1998
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage) 1997
On the Road to Desolation
Self 1997
Behind the Music
Self 1997
Rodney Dangerfield's 75th Birthday Toast
Self 1997
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Fear 1996
Nichols and May: Take Two
Self 1996
Abbott & Costello Meet Biography
Self 1996
Casino
Steve Allen 1995
James Dean: A Portrait
Self 1995
Pinky and the Brain
Steve Allen (voice) 1995
James Dean and Me
Self (uncredited) 1995
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994
The Critic
Steve Allen (voice) 1994
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