Hugh Downs
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Hugh Malcolm Downs was an American television presenter, radio personality, author, and music composer. A regular television presence from the mid-1940s until the late 1990s, he had several successful
Downs in 1972
Downs and daughter, Deirdre (1960)
Jack Paar, Downs, Jose Melis on The Tonight Show; Downs was host Paar's announcer.
With Darren McGavin on the set of the TV series Riverboat
Jack Paar
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Jack Harold Paar was an American talk show host, writer, radio and television comedian, and film actor. He was the second host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Time magazine's obituary of Paar r
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…Hour for the 1956–57 season and one of NBC Radio's Monitor "Communicators" from 1955 to 1959. Downs became a bona fide television "personality" as Jack Paar's announcer on The Tonight Show from mid 1957, when he replaced Franklin Pangborn, until Paar's departure in March 1962, and then continued to announce…
Paar in the early 1950s
Paar appearing on Dick Cavett's show in January 1973, when he announced his return to television
Paar (left) with Senator John F. Kennedy on The Tonight Show in 1959