Milton Berle Add to My Celebs Age 93 (passed away Mar. 27th, 2002) Birthday Jul. 12th, 1908 Born in New York City, New York, USA Height 5' 10 1/2"

Milton Berle's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Hollywood Palace Singer (7) The Jonathan Winters Show Milton Berle Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters Milton Berle The Milton Berle Show Himself - H…

Main Movie Roles 2007 - Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project 1989 - Going Overboard 1985 - Pee-wee's Big Adventure 1984 - Broadway Danny Rose 1979 - The Muppet Movie 1975 - Lepke 1967 - Who's Minding The Mint? 1965 - The Loved One 1963 - It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1961 - The Ladies Man 1960 - Let's Make Love 1960 - The Bellboy 1941 - Sun Valley Serenade 1920 - The Mark of Zorro 1917 - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Milton was educated at New York Professional Children's School, and began performing at age 5. His first stage appearance was in "Florodora"in Atlantic City. He appeared at the Palace Theatre in New York in 1931, then in night clubs and theatres. He appeared in the Broadway musicals "Saluta", "See My Lawyer", and "Ziegfeld Follies of 1943". His television debut was on experimental scanning-wheel television in Chicago in 1929. By 1934 he was on radio.


TRIVIA:

• Siblings: Phil (b. 1901), Francis (b. 1904), Jack (b. 1905), Rosalind (b. 1913) (all deceased)
• Credits his survival as a television icon with his 30 year contract with NBC ('Groucho Marx' (qv) once joked about this saying: "30 years with NBC? That's not a contract. That's a sentence!").
• Milton Berle had begun his professional career at age five, working in motion pictures at the American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
• Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald S. Smith, pg. 46-48. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
• Father: Moses Berlinger
• 'Milton Berle' (qv) described a brief affair with 'Aimee Semple McPherson' (qv) in 1930 in his 1975 autobiography titled, "Milton Berle: An Autobiography".
• Was well-known as an outrageous joke thief, which frequently rankled some of his fellow performers. One time, he said to 'Groucho Marx' (qv), "You know, Groucho, I've stolen some of my best jokes from you." Without missing a beat, Groucho replied, "Then you weren't listening."
• In 1984 he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame, and in 1991 became the first entertainer inducted into the International Comedy Hall of Fame.

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