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Ed McMahon was the announcer on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, made famous through his banter and his opening introduction, 'Heeeere's Johnny!'
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McMahon has also pursued a career as an actor, with considerably less success. His interest was sparked by a brief stint as a replacement in the Broadway production of The Impossible Years in the mid-1960s. His feature films included The Incident (1967), Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973), Fun With Dick and Jane (1977),Contents
and Full Moon High (1981). More recently, McMahon appeared as himself in Love Affair
(1994), starring Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, and earned a measure
of praise for his supporting role on the short-lived 1997-1998 sitcom The Tom Show, starring Tom Arnold. In 1998, McMahon published a popular autobiography, For Laughing Out Loud: My Life and Good Times (he had previously published another memoir, Here's Ed, in 1976).
McMahon and his first wife, Alyce Ferrell, married while he was in
college and had four children—Claudia, Michael, Linda, and
Jeffery—before divorcing in 1976. With his second wife, Victoria
Valentine, McMahon adopted a daughter, Katherine. McMahon and Valentine
divorced in 1989. He married Pamela Hurn in March 1992.
McMahon was extremely active in various charities. He made frequent
appearances with Jerry Lewis on the Muscular Dystrophy Association
annual telethon, served on the board of the Marine Corps Scholarship
Fund, and also supported the United Negro College Fund.
McMahon died on June 23, 2009. He was suffering from bone cancer, among other illnesses, at the time. He was 86 years old.
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