Jack Nicholson Academy. Nicholson's acting career spans over sixty years. He has won three Academy Awards, and with twelve nominations, he is the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. Among his most notable films are "Easy Rider" (1969), "Five Easy Pieces" (1970), "The Last Detail" (1973), "Chinatown" (1974), "The Passenger" (1975), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), "The Shining" (1980), "Terms of Endearment" (1983), "Batman" (1989), "A Few Good Men" (1992), "As Good as It Gets" (1997), "About Schmidt" (2002), "Something's Gotta Give" (2003), "The Departed" (2006), and "The Bucket List" (2007). Jack Nicholson John Joseph Nicholson (born April
Tonight Starring Jack Paar Paar hosted the program from 1957 to 1962. Paar's original announcer was actor Franklin Pangborn, but he was fired after only a few weeks for not showing enough "spontaneous enthusiasm". His replacement was Hugh Downs, who stayed with Paar to the end. At first, the show was called "Tonight Starring Jack Paar"; after 1959 it was officially known as "The Jack Paar Show" (or "The Jack Paar Tonight Show", a phrasing which led to the name "The Tonight Show," as opposed to simply "Tonight," being adopted permanently after Paar's departure). On September 19, 1960, the series became one of the