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Soupy Sales

Age

Birthday

Jan. 8th, 1926

Born in

Franklinton, North Carolina, USA

Height

Soupy Sales' Main TV Roles

Main Movie Roles

1998 - Holy Man
1993 - The Making of '...And God Spoke'
1978 - Hooper

Guest TV Roles

Show Name

Characters Played

Ep Count

Black Scorpion

Sonny Dey

The Rebel

Stable Owner

The Beverly Hillbillies

Lance Bradford

Vacation Playhouse

Fred Brady

Love, American Style

(segment "Love and the Big Surprise")

Monsters

Howard Filby

Route 66 (1960)

Harlan Livingston III

Johnson

Victor Marshall

Fred Gardner

BIOGRAPHY:

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TRIVIA:

Has been a popular New York City area radio personality since the early 1980s.
In a 1964 incident that nearly ended his career, Sales jokingly told his young viewers on his syndicated show to "take some of those green pieces of paper with pictures of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Lincoln and Jefferson on them" from their parents' wallets and send them to him, and he would send them a postcard from Puerto Rico. Several young viewers did send Sales some money, but all were returned. He was suspended from television for a week, but the incident made his show "cool" and boosted his ratings when he returned to the air.
Numerous celebrities have been on the receiving end of Soupy's pies over the years, including, on one memorable occasion (c. 1965), 'Frank Sinatra' (qv), 'Sammy Davis Jr.' (qv) and 'Trini L�pez' (qv), all on the same program, in the same sketch.
1995 - Broke his leg, which has since limited his walking ability.
A prank was played on him by the studio crew during a live broadcast of one of his shows. Upon opening a prop door on his set, a nude dancer was gyrating in front of him as a recording of "The Stripper" was playing over the studio loudspeakers. While the woman was out of camera shot for the television feed, the studio monitors were rigged so Sales could see the nude dancer on them, giving the impression that she was being broadcast live on his children's show. Convinced that his career was over, yet still laughing with his crew, he asked that they cut to a commercial. Only then was he told that the nude dancer wasn't shown on the live feed. He later joked, "All I really wanted from her was her autograph." The clip from the show has circulated in several videotape collections of "bloopers" and out-takes.
2000 - Had surgery to repair damage to his vocal cords.
Mr. Sales attended the "Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show", at Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn, in North Hollywood, California, on October 6th & 7th, 2001.
Soupy was born Milton Supman, the youngest of three sons born to dry-goods store owners Irving and Sadie Supman in Franklinton, North Carolina.

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