He is but a footnote now but a memorable one for any of those who watched, with a combination of mild horror and fascination, the television antics of Morton Downey Jr. They flashed for less than two ...

Morton Downey Jr. (December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001) was an American television talk show host and actor who pioneered the "trash TV" format in the late-1980s on his program The Morton Downey Jr.

An entertaining, affectionate look at one of syndicated TV's most attention-getting sideshows. As New York and New Jersey high schoolers in the 1980s, co-directors Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and ...

This entertaining documentary recounts the rise and fall of the legendarily pugnacious and controversial talk-show host. By THR Staff In its portrait of an incendiary media figure who burned brightly ...

It was almost too good (or bad) to be true: For a comically short time (i.e., less than two years), “The Morton Downey Jr. Show” burned bright as the most controversial program on late ‘80s television ...

Morton Downey, Jr. became known as "The Mouth That Roared" - and in an incident some say sparked his downfall, he once famously roared at INSIDE EDITION. The former talk show host is the subject of a ...

This article was corrected on March 19, 2001. Morton Downey Jr., songwriter and actor-turned-growling and opinionated TV talkshow host who shocked viewers from behind a haze of cigarette smoke during ...