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 ...

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 ...

Les Crane, who died on July 13 at age 74, became an unlikely one-hit wonder in the British and American pop charts with “Desiderata” (1971), his spoken-word version of an obscure prose poem 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, a talk radio innovator and Grammy winner remembered as the first television host to take on Johnny Carson, died on July 13. He was 74. Crane died of natural causes at Marin General Hospital ...

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 plucked a long-forgotten poem from obscurity and had a hit in Britain and the US with Desiderata Crane with his fourth wife, the actress Tina Louise, in 1972 Credit: Photo: ...