Morton Downey, Jr. (December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001) was an American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host of the 1980s who pioneered the "trash TV" format on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show.
Legally named Sean Morton Downey, Jr., he dropped "Sean" from his stage name, as his father, Morton Downey had.
The film company Ironbound Films produced a biopic about Downey entitled Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, which premiered April 19, 2012 at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.
Read more about Morton Downey, Jr.: Career, Television, Celebrity, Cancellation, and Bankruptcy, Later Career, Controversies, Honors, Personal Life, Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, Death
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“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
—Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904)