# Challenge! Who is the man sitting with all the stars on Johnny Carson? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321 "2014-04-30T00:42:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/41 "2014-04-30T06:15:10Z")
The name Peter Mark Richman is unfamiliar to me, but the mystery man does bear a resemblance to the photos in his link earlier. All the rest of the guesses I’ve seen here are ludicrously bad, obviously from youngsters who did not grow up watching those people. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/42 "2014-04-30T06:21:43Z")
Well, I’m starting to come around to the possibility of Sid Caesar. His photo [here](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Sid_Caesar_-_1961.JPG) does resemble the mystery man a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/43 "2014-04-30T06:39:33Z")
> [@randompattern](#): > > I dunno maybe, I never realized how hard it is to find a left side profile of a celeb! Yeah, now I’m beginning to wonder myself. Richman has the same basic appearance and somewhat curly hair, but in none of the Google photos does his smile look the same. I’m beginning to wonder if the mystery man is an actor at all. Seeing as how he’s seated in the most prestigious spot next to Carson and most of the others seem to be paying respectful attention to him I’m thinking that he might have been the show’s producer or director. ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/44 "2014-04-30T06:54:50Z")
I was thinking he looked a little like John Boorman. He directed Deliverance, which was a nominee for G.G. or Emmy around that time. I can’t find a younger picture of him though. Could someone please tell me how to post photo links here? ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/45 "2014-04-30T07:19:16Z")
When you press the **Reply** button, in the row of tool icons above the box you type in, there is an **Insert Link** icon. (It looks like the Earth with 2 links of a chain over it.) This brings up a dialog box into which you can paste the URL of your pic’s web page. If you do this while you have some text in your post highlighted, it will make that text the link. ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/46 "2014-04-30T07:44:22Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/47 "2014-04-30T10:38:55Z")
Not anyone with regular straight hair. Thats wavy hair they tried to set down for the Emmy’s. So - wavy hair - curved down , long thin nose - quirky smile … doesn’t look standard … smile line is one big \> down the face, down to the jaw - seems to be narrow eyes (But hard to tell side on…) The Emmys were on June 7, 1970 Gene Wilder appeared on the Tonight show aired June 12. 1970, where Johnny was absent, presumably because he was busy with the Emmys. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/48 "2014-04-30T12:59:43Z")
I know it’s not, but to me he looks like Jonathan Harris (Dr. Smith) from Lost in Space. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/49 "2014-04-30T13:11:09Z")
[Joel Grey](http://www.latimes.com/includes/projects/hollywood/portraits/joel_grey.jpg) perhaps. I never would have gotten James Brolin and Karen Valentine. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/50 "2014-04-30T13:47:27Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > [Joel Grey](http://www.latimes.com/includes/projects/hollywood/portraits/joel_grey.jpg) perhaps. > > I never would have gotten James Brolin and Karen Valentine. No way is Joel Grey taller than Robert Young, unless he’s sitting on a couple phone books. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/51 "2014-04-30T13:57:04Z")
[He’s a left profile of David Frost](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/01/article-2408548-1B907001000005DC-64_306x423.jpg). I don’t think it’s him - DF’s hair was different and he’s more jowly. StG ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/52 "2014-04-30T14:34:26Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > All the rest of the guesses I’ve seen here are ludicrously bad, obviously from youngsters who did not grow up watching those people. Boy, I’ll say! I wish I could contribute a guess of my own. There’s certainly something familiar about him, but I’m stumped. So the best I can do is concur with you; it’s very clear who this guy is NOT! ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/53 "2014-04-30T15:24:00Z")
On Peter Mark Richman’s Facebook page, [his daughter, Kelly, denies it’s him.](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=616222925130680&set=o.561438023904381&type=1) It’s a good guess, though. My first quick glance made me think “young James Whitmore?” but no, I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/54 "2014-04-30T15:44:34Z")
There is no way that is Joel Grey or James Whitmore. I’m thinking the guess of one of the show’s producers makes sense. He would be in the place of honor, and while the guests did often scoot down the couch to make room for the next one, they were never all the way backed up to behind the couch. So maybe this was a staged photo op that was not part of the regular airing. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/55 "2014-04-30T15:48:05Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > Boy, I’ll say! > > I wish I could contribute a guess of my own. There’s certainly something familiar about him, but I’m stumped. So the best I can do is concur with you; it’s very clear who this guy is NOT! Several times I have seriously wondered if people are looking at the correct person. It’s the guy on the far right (as we look). Right? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/56 "2014-04-30T15:51:12Z")
It’s definitely David Frost. Because if it is I win the internet! Actually, the hair still looks off to me. And yes, for all the pictures I looked at left profiles are hard to find. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/57 "2014-04-30T15:54:16Z")
Not David Frost. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/58 "2014-04-30T15:54:23Z")
It’s definitely NOT David Frost. I watched his show TW3 every week and I know what he looks like. It’s not him. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/59 "2014-04-30T15:55:39Z")
Glen Campbell looks more like David Frost than that guy. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321/60 "2014-04-30T15:56:11Z")
My first thought was that it looks like [Hans Conried](https://www.google.com/#q=hans+conried). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-who-is-the-man-sitting-with-all-the-stars-on-johnny-carson/687321.md?page=4)