Soupy Sales
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 28, 1926
- Died
- Oct 22, 2009 (aged 83)
- Place of birth
- Franklinton, North Carolina, USA
- Credits
- 43
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
Filmography
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
2016Movie
Self (archive footage)
Black Scorpion Returns
2001Movie
Sonny Dey / Professor Prophet
Behind the Seams
2000Movie
Doorman
A Little Bit of Lipstck
2000Movie
Max
Palmer's Pick-Up
1999Movie
Ernie Bolza
Holy Man
1998Movie
Soupy Sales
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996TV
Self
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
1994Movie
Moses
Boy Meets World
1993TV
Mr. Martini
Wings
1990TV
True Blue
1989TV
Monsters
1988TV
Howard Filby
Let's Go Mets
1986Movie
Self
Saturday Supercade
1983TV
Donkey Kong (voice)
Donkey Kong
1983TV
Donkey Kong (voice)
Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
1977Movie
Santola
The Love Boat
1977TV
Victor Marshall
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self (uncredited)
Love, American Style
1969TV
The Barbara McNair Show
1969TV
Self
The Johnny Cash Show
1969TV
Self
The Carol Burnett Show
1967TV
Self
Bill's Hat
1967Movie
Murder at N.B.C.
1966Movie
Birds Do It
1966Movie
Melvin Byrd
The Dean Martin Show
1965TV
Hullabaloo
1965TV
Self, Self - Host
The Hollywood Palace
1964TV
Self
The Judy Garland Show
1963TV
Self
Burke's Law
1963TV
Henry Geller
Vacation Playhouse
1963TV
Fireman Smokey, Fred Brady
The Merv Griffin Show
1962TV
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962TV
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self - Co-Host, Self
The Two Little Bears
1961Movie
Officer McGovern
Route 66
1960TV
The Rebel
1959TV
Stable Owner, Meyers
Hennesey
1959TV
Kraft Music Hall
1958TV
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957TV
Self - Guest Host
What's My Line?
1950TV
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948TV
Self