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Soupy Sales
Franklinton, North Carolina, USA
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…
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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."
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2016
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
Black Scorpion Returns
Movie Sonny Dey / Professor Prophet
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2000
Behind the Seams
Movie Doorman
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2000
A Little Bit of Lipstck
Movie Max
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1999
Palmer's Pick-Up
Movie Ernie Bolza
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1998
Holy Man
Movie Soupy Sales
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1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV show Self
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1994
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
Movie Moses
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1993
Boy Meets World
TV show Mr. Martini
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1990
Wings
TV show
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1989
True Blue
TV show
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1988
Monsters
TV show Howard Filby
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1986
Let's Go Mets
Movie Self
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1983
Saturday Supercade
TV show Donkey Kong (voice)
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1983
Donkey Kong
TV show Donkey Kong (voice)
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1977
Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
Movie Santola
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1977
The Love Boat
TV show Victor Marshall
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1975
Saturday Night Live
TV show Self (uncredited)
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1969
Love, American Style
TV show
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1969
The Barbara McNair Show
TV show Self
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1969
The Johnny Cash Show
TV show Self
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1967
The Carol Burnett Show
TV show Self
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1967
Bill's Hat
Movie
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1966
Murder at N.B.C.
Movie
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1966
Birds Do It
Movie Melvin Byrd
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1965
The Dean Martin Show
TV show
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1965
Hullabaloo
TV show Self
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1964
The Hollywood Palace
TV show Self
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1963
The Judy Garland Show
TV show Self
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1963
Burke's Law
TV show Henry Geller
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1963
Vacation Playhouse
TV show Fireman Smokey
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1962
The Merv Griffin Show
TV show Self
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1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV show
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self - Co-Host
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1961
The Two Little Bears
Movie Officer McGovern
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1960
Route 66
TV show
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1959
The Rebel
TV show Stable Owner
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1959
Hennesey
TV show
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1958
Kraft Music Hall
TV show Self
