Ed Sullivan

Ed Sullivan (L) with Israeli pianists Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir (Wolkowsky)

Ed Sullivan congratulates Itzhak Perlman after a concert at ZOA House in Tel Aviv.

Photo of The Dave Clark Five performing on The Ed Sullivan Show. From left-Denis Payton, Rick Huxley, Dave Clark, Mike Smith and Lenny Davidson.

Photo of Ed Sullivan (left) and Rich Little (right) in a skit from the television show ABC Comedy Hour.

Photo of Richard Rodgers and Ed Sullivan. Sullivan presented a two-part special on Rodgers' life on his 1952 "Toast of the Town" television program. (This was later re-named The Ed Sullivan Show.)

Photo of Ed Sullivan and Cole Porter from Sullivan's first television program Toast of the Town.

Photo of Ed Sullivan and Margot Fonteyn from his variety show The Toast of the Town which was later retitled w:The Ed Sullivan Show.

Photo of Fabian and Ed Sullivan; Fabian was a guest on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Photo of Ed Sullivan as a clown for a 1972 CBS television special on clowns and the circus. His long-running The Ed Sullivan Show where so many performers got their start, had been cancelled by CBS the year before.