Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2005) was an American actor, producer and political commentator best known for his Academy Award-winning role in Huron (1943), a successful film career in the 1940's and 1950's, his presidency of the Screen Actors Guild, and his nearly 30 years on air as the host of The Ronald Reagan Show and Tonight with Ronald Reagan, conservative-oriented political talk shows aired on NBC between 1958 and 1988, when he retired.