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Randolph Mantooth Reveals How He ‘Screwed Up So Badly’ as Johnny Carson’s ‘Tonight Show’ Page


Emergency! actor Randolph Mantooth reflects on his days as Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show page and his career highlights in this exclusive interview with Closer.

“One time on a plane, I was asked to prep an IV for a passenger whose blood sugar dropped,” Randy, 78, tells Closer. “I was offered a contract with Universal after a talent agent in New York saw me in the play Philadelphia, Here I Come, with another actor, Brad Davis. He’d chosen Kevin Tighe[Roy DeSoto] as my costar, and talked Bob Fuller [Dr. Brackett] and Julie London [Nurse McCall] into doing the show, but it was another producer who cast me.”

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