American Masters Jack Paar: 'As I Was Saying...' (Season 11, Episode 4)
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TV Episode | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Masters

Jack Paar: 'As I Was Saying...' (Season 11, Episode 4)

TV-14

TV Episode | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Television and radio pioneer Jack Paar has been called the most imitated personality in broadcasting. He virtually created the late-night talk show format as the host of The Tonight Show, one of televisions longest running programs.

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Updated May 7, 1997

Release date

May 7, 1997 (United States)

Awards

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Won 27 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 31 wins & 81 nominations

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41 cast members

Name	Known for
Jack Paar Self Self See fewer	Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
Paul Keyes Self Self See fewer	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)
Hal Gurnee Self Self See fewer	Late Show with David Letterman (1993)
Hugh Downs Self Self See fewer	Live from Lincoln Center (1976)
Muhammad Ali Self (archive footage) (as Cassius Clay) Self (archive footage) (as Cassius Clay) See fewer	The Greatest (1977)
Woody Allen Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Manhattan (1979)
Cliff Arquette Self / Charley Weaver (archive footage) Self / Charley Weaver (archive footage) See fewer	The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965)
Hy Averback Self Self See fewer	MAS*H (1972)
Jack Benny Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Jack Benny Program (1950)
Richard Burton Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Godfrey Cambridge Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Johnny Carson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
Hans Conried Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Peter Pan (1953)
Bill Cosby Self Self See fewer	The Cosby Show (1984)
Reiko Douglas Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Tattletales (1974)
Kermit the Frog Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Atop the Fourth Wall (2008)
Zsa Zsa Gabor Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Judy Garland Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Genevieve Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	A Musical Tribute to Paris (1959)
Barry Goldwater Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Laugh-In (1977)
Dody Goodman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Grease (1978)
Robert Goulet Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Billy Graham Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Wiretapper (1955)
Buddy Hackett Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
John F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Profiles in Courage (1964)
Robert F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Missiles of October (1974)
Alexander King Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The DuPont Show of the Week (1961)
Elsa Lanchester Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
David Letterman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Late Show with David Letterman (1993)
Oscar Levant Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	An American in Paris (1951)
Liberace Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Elaine May Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Small Time Crooks (2000)
Jose Melis Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Senior Prom (1958)
Malcolm Muggeridge Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Heavens Above! (1963)
Mike Nichols Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Graduate (1967)
Richard Nixon Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Frost/Nixon (2008)
Miriam Paar Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Square World of Jack Paar (1961)
Randy Paar Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Joey Bishop Show (1961)
Debbie Reynolds Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Peter Ustinov Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Spartacus (1960)
Jonathan Winters Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)