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Peter Lassally, the dean of late night producers who worked with Johnny Carson on the "Tonight Show," David Letterman on "Late Show" and Craig Ferguson on "The Late Late Show," has died. He was 93.

The "Host Whisperer" started out with Arthur Godfrey, spent 23 years with 'The Tonight Show' and engineered Dave's move to CBS. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Lassally died Sunday of natural causes at a ...

Lassally and his family survived the Holocaust before moving to the United States Mark Mainz/Getty Peter Lassally, the legendary executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Late ...