Les Crane

Les Crane ( December 3, 1933 * in Long Beach, New York or San Francisco, † July 13, 2008 in Greenbrae, California; actually Lesley Stone ) was an American radio and television presenter.

After graduating from Tulane University in New Orleans Crane was four years in the Air Force. After that, his career began as host of radio and television shows. Its from ABC Nightline produced (later Les Crane Show) could against Johnny Carson not ultimately prevail, although Crane continued impetus. So he led, for example, the first interview with the Rolling Stones on American television. 1966 Crane worked in the film Murder second hand on a book by Norman Mailer with. Phil Ochs Crane mentioned in his song Love me, I'm a Liberal.

From 1966 to 1974 Crane was married in fourth marriage with singer Tina Louise, with whom he one daughter, Caprice Crane ( born 1974 ), has, who now works as an MTV producer and writer. 1971 Les Crane brought a gramophone recording of Max Ehrmann poem Desiderata - out. The song brought it to number 8 on the U.S. charts and # 7 on the UK charts. In Germany Cranes reached Chanting space 32 in which could be heard as a B- side, a German -language version of Friedrich Schütter. Crane was awarded for this recording with a Grammy.

In the 1980s, Crane joined the industry and became chairman of the company The Software Toolworks.