Editing Johnny Mathis (section)

==Other appearances==
Mathis has taped 12 of his own television specials and made over 300 television guest appearances, 54 of them on ''[[The Tonight Show]]''. Longtime ''Tonight Show'' host [[Johnny Carson]] said, "Johnny Mathis is the best ballad singer in the world." On March 29, 2007, Mathis appeared on the show with Carson's successor, [[Jay Leno]],<ref>{{cite web
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</ref> to sing "[[The Shadow of Your Smile]]" with saxophonist [[Dave Koz]]. Through the years, Mathis's songs (or parts of them) have been heard in more than 100 TV shows and films around the globe. His 1998 appearance on the ''[[Live by Request]]'' broadcast on [[A&E Networks|A&E]] had the largest television viewing audience of the series. In 1989, Mathis sang the theme for the ABC daytime soap opera ''[[Loving (TV series)|Loving]]''.

Mathis served as narrator for ''[['51 Dons]]'', a 2014 documentary film about the [[Racial integration|integrated]] and undefeated [[San Francisco Dons football|1951 San Francisco Dons football team]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Jarvis|first=Kimberly|url=http://espnmediazone.com/us/weekly-updates/2014/espn-thisweekend-february-6-2014/#d|title=Black History Month Premiere: '51 Dons|publisher=[[ESPN]]|access-date=October 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209042035/http://espnmediazone.com/us/weekly-updates/2014/espn-thisweekend-february-6-2014/#d|archive-date=February 9, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> The team was denied a chance to play in a [[bowl game]] because it refused to agree not to play its two African-American players, [[Ollie Matson]] and [[Burl Toler]], who were childhood friends of Mathis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usfca.edu/about/51dons/espn/|title=ESPN Documentary: '51 Dons|publisher=[[University of San Francisco]]|access-date=October 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027080155/http://www.usfca.edu/about/51dons/espn/|archive-date=October 27, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Mathis appeared in the Season 14 finale of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', "Truth or Dare", playing himself. He also played himself in the 2017 movie [[Just Getting Started (2017 film)|Just Getting Started]].