Johnny Olson
John Leonard "Johnny" Olson (May 22, 1910 – October 12, 1985) was an American radio personality and television announcer. His work spanned 32 game shows produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman from the late 1950s through the mid 1980s. He was also the announcer of The Jackie Gleason Show from 1962 to 1970.
Read more about Johnny Olson: Early Career, Work For DuMont Television Network, Early Announcing Work, The Price Is Right, Match Game and Later Career, Death
Famous quotes containing the words johnny and/or olson:
“Wha lies here?
I, Johnny Doo.
Hoo, Johnny, is that you?
Ay, man, but a’m dead noo.”
—Anonymous. “Johnny Doo,” from Geoffrey Grigson’s Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)
“But that which matters, that which insists, that which will last,
that! o my people, where shall you find it, how, where, where shall
you listen
when all is become billboards, when, all, even silence, is
spray-gunned?”
—Charles Olson (1910–1970)