Edward Vincent Sullivan was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the emcee of a popular TV variety show called The Ed Sullivan Show. A former boxer, Sullivan began his media work as a newspaper sportswriter for the Hearst syndicate, eventually taking over as theater columnist concentrating his column on Broadway shows and gossip. In June 1948, the CBS network hired Sullivan to do a weekly Sunday night TV variety show, Toast of the Town, which later became The Ed Sullivan Show, one of the most popular shows on television through to its final performance in 1971.
The man known as “Old Stone Face” died October 13th, 1974 of esophageal cancer at age 73 at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital, coincidentally on a Sunday night. His funeral was attended by 3,000 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York on a cold, rainy day.
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