Thomas James "Tom" Snyder

Thomas James "Tom" Snyder (May 12, 1936 – July 29, 2007)

Snyder was a television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows The Tomorrow Show, on the NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s. Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the primetime NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates in primetime. Unique one-on-one exchanges were common to his late night talk show, notably with author Harlan Ellison, John Lydon of PiL and The Sex Pistols in 1980, John Lennon in 1975, actor and writer Sterling Hayden, Charles Manson, and author and philosopher Ayn Rand. A one-on-one program with David Brenner as the sole guest revealed that Snyder and Brenner worked together on several documentaries. In April 2005 Snyder revealed that he had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and died of complications from the disease two years later at age 71.