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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 28, 1926
Died
October 22, 2009
Place of Birth
Franklinton, North Carolina, USA
Also Known As
- Milton Supman
Soupy Sales
0.4 Popularity
Biography
Milton Supman, known professionally as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor, radio/television personality, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television show Lunch with Soupy Sales, a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. From 1968 to 1975 he was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival of What's My Line? and appeared on several other TV game shows. During the 1980s, Sales hosted his own show on WNBC-AM in New York City. Sales is best known for his daily children's television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales. The show was originally called 12 O'Clock Comics, and was later known as The Soupy Sales Show. Improvised and slapstick in nature, Lunch with Soupy Sales was a rapid-fire stream of comedy sketches, gags, and puns, almost all of which resulted in Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. Sales developed pie-throwing into an art form: straight to the face, on top of the head, a pie to both ears from behind, moving into a stationary pie, and countless other variations. He claimed that he and his visitors had been hit by more than 20,000 pies during his career. He recounted a time when a young fan mistakenly threw a frozen pie at his neck and he "dropped like a pile of bricks."
Known For
7.3
Self (archive footage)
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
2016
7.5
Sonny Dey / Professor Prophet
Black Scorpion Returns
2001
0.0
Doorman
Behind the Seams
2000
🎬
0.0
Max
A Little Bit of Lipstck
2000
2.7
Ernie Bolza
Palmer's Pick-Up
1999
5.3
Soupy Sales
Holy Man
1998
3.9
Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
5.1
Moses
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
1994
8.3
Mr. Martini
Boy Meets World
1993
6.9
Wings
1990
Credits
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
2016
7.3
Black Scorpion Returns
as Sonny Dey / Professor Prophet
2001
7.5
Behind the Seams
as Doorman
2000
0.0
🎬
A Little Bit of Lipstck
as Max
2000
0.0
Palmer's Pick-Up
as Ernie Bolza
1999
2.7
Holy Man
as Soupy Sales
1998
5.3
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self
1996
3.9
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
as Moses
1994
5.1
Boy Meets World
as Mr. Martini
1993
8.3
Wings
1990
6.9
True Blue
1989
5.8
Monsters
1988
7.1
Let's Go Mets
as Self
1986
0.0
Saturday Supercade
as Donkey Kong (voice)
1983
6.8
Donkey Kong
as Donkey Kong (voice)
1983
0.0
Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
as Santola
1977
0.0
The Love Boat
as Victor Marshall
1977
6.3
Saturday Night Live
as Self (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Love, American Style
1969
6.1
🎬
The Barbara McNair Show
as Self
1969
0.0
The Johnny Cash Show
as Self
1969
6.5
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self
1967
7.7
Bill's Hat
1967
0.0
🎬
Murder at N.B.C.
1966
0.0
Birds Do It
as Melvin Byrd
1966
5.0
The Dean Martin Show
1965
7.3
Hullabaloo
as Self
1965
0.0
Hullabaloo
as Self - Host
1965
0.0
The Hollywood Palace
as Self
1964
4.5
The Judy Garland Show
as Self
1963
8.0
Burke's Law
as Henry Geller
1963
6.0
🎬
Vacation Playhouse
as Fireman Smokey
1963
7.0
🎬
Vacation Playhouse
as Fred Brady
1963
7.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
6.9
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Two Little Bears
as Officer McGovern
1961
6.0
Route 66
1960
6.3
The Rebel
as Stable Owner
1959
4.7
The Rebel
as Meyers
1959
4.7
Hennesey
1959
6.0
Kraft Music Hall
as Self
1958
4.7
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self - Guest Host
1957
7.0
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8