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Morton Downey Jr. (December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001), born Sean Morton Downey, was an American television talk show host and actor who pioneered the "trash TV" format in the late-1980s on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show.
The Morton Downey Jr. Show is a syndicated American talk show presented by Morton Downey Jr. that ran from 1987 to 1989. [1] [2] [3] The show and its host pioneered the concept of "trash TV" format. [4] [5] [6] Starting as a local program on New York-New Jersey superstation WWOR in October 1987, it expanded into national syndication in early 1988.
The New York Times said, "Mr. Downey's singing is in the gruff country mode of Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson but lacks the emphatic firmness of tone and pitch that gives even spoken monologues by those singers an underlying sense of musical cadence. Morton Downey Jr. Sings is anything but subtle." [2]
Morton Downey was the father of television personality Morton Downey Jr. by his first wife, actress Barbara Bennett (1906–1958), the sister of actresses Constance and Joan Bennett, and with whom he ultimately had five children, four sons, and a daughter: Michael, "Sean" (John Morton Downey Jr.), Lorelle, Anthony, and Kevin. Her early promise ...
Robert Downey Jr. won a Critics Choice Award for best supporting actor in “Oppenheimer” on Sunday, and he took the opportunity to remind the critics who voted for him that they haven’t ...
Downey Jr. was 28 at the time, and struggled with a drug addiction. “I was young and crazy,” Downey Jr. said during an interview on The View on Wednesday, January 24. He told cohost Joy
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie is a 2012 documentary film that chronicles the history of The Morton Downey Jr. Show [5] and Downey's influence on "trash TV." [6]
Here's everything you need to know about the ongoing debate over Downey's use of blackface in the 2008 comedy.