Gender: Male
Born: 12th July 1908
Died: 27th March 2002
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Texaco Star Theater,
The Colgate Comedy Hour,
The Music Shop,
Kraft Music Hall,
The Milton Berle Show,
Fame,
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad,
General Hospital,
The Dick Powell Show,
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast,
Amazing StoriesMovies: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,
Sun Valley Serenade,
The Bellboy,
Who's Minding the Mint?,
Journey Back to Oz,
Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?,
Pee-wee's Big Adventure,
Let's Make Love,
The Loved One,
Tess of the Storm Country,
The Muppet Movie,
Cracking Up,
The Perils of Pauline,
The Oscar,
Evil Roy Slade,
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows,
Margin of Error,
Star Spangled Salesman,
Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring,
Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas,
Elf,
Broadway Danny Rose,
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood,
Saludos Amigos,
Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club,
Cavalcade of Comedy,
Driving Me Crazy,
Always Leave Them Laughing,
New Faces of 1937,
Television: The First 50 Years,
Milton Berle: An All-Star Tribute to Mr. Television,
The Milton Berle Show: Vol. 3,
The Funny World of Lucy: Vol. 2,
That Girl: Vol. 1,
Milton Berle's Buick Hour #1,
Radio City RevelsMilton Berle (born Milton Berlinger, July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" during TV's golden age.
Milton Berlinger was born into a Jewish family in a five-story walkup at 68 W. 118th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. He chose Milton Berle as his professional name when he was 16. His father, Moses Berlinger (1873–1938), was a paint and varnish salesman. His mother, Sarah (Sadie) Glantz Berlinger (1877–1954), eventually became stagestruck and changed her name to Sandra Berle when Milton became famous.
Berle entered show business at the age of five when he won an amateur talent contest. He appeared as a child actor in silent films, beginning with The Perils of Pauline, filmed in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The director told Berle that he would portray a little boy who would be thrown from a moving train. In Milton Berle: An Autobiography, he explained, "I was scared shitless, even when he went on to tell me that Pauline would save my life. Which is exactly what happened,
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