Former talkshow host and Grammy winner Les Crane, the first to challenge latenight king Johnny Carson, died Sunday of natural causes at Marin County’s Marin General Hospital. He was 74. NYC native and ...

Cannabis advocate Les Crane was murdered nearly 20 years ago, and a newly announced documentary tells the story and analyzes who might have killed him. On November 18, 2005, multiple gunshots were ...

Les Crane, called the “bad boy of late-night television” when he vied for ratings against talk-show king Johnny Carson in the mid-1960s, has died. He was 74. His death of natural causes Sunday at a ...

Les Crane, called the “bad boy of late-night television” when he vied for ratings against talk-show king Johnny Carson in the mid-1960s, died of natural causes Sunday at Marin General Hospital north ...

The Los Angeles Times reports the death of Les Crane, the successful KGO-AM San Francisco talk host who was tapped by ABC Television in 1964 to challenge Johnny Carson with “The Les Crane Show.” That ...

Les Crane, a provocative talk-show host who was the first to challenge the primacy of Johnny Carson on late-night television – and lose – died Sunday in Greenbrae. He was 74 and lived in Belvedere.

Radio host and one-time Johnny Carson talk show rival Les Crane, who found later success as a software developer and publisher, has died at the age of 74. Crane died Sunday of natural causes at a ...

Les Crane, called the “bad boy of late-night television” when he vied for ratings against talk-show king Johnny Carson in the mid-1960s, died of natural causes Sunday at Marin General Hospital in ...

Although Les Crane had a long career in the United States as a confrontational radio and television host, he won international fame for his smooth-voiced, highly sentimental narration of "Desiderata" ...

American talk-show host who shot up the pop charts after transforming a long-forgotten poem into a hit Les Crane, who died on July 13 aged 74, became an unlikely one-hit wonder in the British and ...