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Milton 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, except that at the crucial moment they threw a bundle of rags instead of me from the train. I bet there are a lot of comedians around today who are sorry about that."
Milton Berle says s#|t in the 1979 classic, The Muppet Movie
SEVEN IN DARKNESS - 1969 TV Movie - Milton Berle, Sean Garrison - plane crash drama
Milton Berle backstage on the movie Who's Minding the Mint
MILTON BERLE SHOW 1966 Irving Benson hilarious as heckler Sidney Shpritzer
MILTON BERLE SHOW - 1966 - Batman / Green Hornet Sketch - Adam West, Bruce Lee
Milton Berle Vs. Statler & Waldorf
Carole Landis Cesar Romero A Gentleman At Heart
THE MILTON BERLE SHOW - 1966 - Heckler Sidney Sphritzer
THE MILTON BERLE SHOW - 1966 guest star Jayne Mansfield, Martha Raye
THE MILTON BERLE SHOW - 1966 - Irving Benson as Sidney Sphritzer sparring with Berle
Milton Berle's Mad Mad World of Comedy 1974
Hollywood Palace 3-11 Milton Berle (host), Liberace, Cesar Romero, Joey Heatherton, MacGuire Sisters
Actors: Gene Autry (actor), Milton Berle (actor), Jackie Coogan (actor), John Forsythe (actor), Aldo Ray (actor), Forrest Tucker (actor), Rudy Vallee (actor), Phyllis Diller (actress), Jerry Lewis (actor), George Raft (actor), Paul Lynde (actor), Marty Ingels (actor), Sherry Jackson (actress), Ralph Andrews (director),
Genres: Comedy, Documentary,