Soupy Sales
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 28, 1926
- Died
- October 22, 2009 (aged 83)
- Birthplace
- Franklinton, North Carolina, USA
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
Filmography
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Black Scorpion Returns
Movie · as Sonny Dey / Professor Prophet
A Little Bit of Lipstck
Movie · as Max
Behind the Seams
Movie · as Doorman
Palmer's Pick-Up
Movie · as Ernie Bolza
Holy Man
Movie · as Soupy Sales
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
Movie · as Moses
Boy Meets World
TV · as Mr. Martini · 1 ep
Wings
TV · 1 ep
True Blue
TV · 1 ep
Monsters
TV · as Howard Filby · 1 ep
Let's Go Mets
Movie · as Self
Saturday Supercade
TV · as Donkey Kong (voice) · 32 eps
Donkey Kong
TV · as Donkey Kong (voice) · 20 eps
Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
Movie · as Santola
The Love Boat
TV · as Victor Marshall · 1 ep
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self (uncredited) · 1 ep
Love, American Style
TV · 2 eps
The Johnny Cash Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Barbara McNair Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Bill's Hat
Movie
The Carol Burnett Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Birds Do It
Movie · as Melvin Byrd
Murder at N.B.C.
Movie
Hullabaloo
TV · as Self, Self - Host · 1 ep
The Dean Martin Show
TV · 1 ep
The Hollywood Palace
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Burke's Law
TV · as Henry Geller · 1 ep
Vacation Playhouse
TV · as Fireman Smokey, Fred Brady · 1 ep
The Judy Garland Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV · 2 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 4 eps
The Two Little Bears
Movie · as Officer McGovern
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self - Co-Host · 6 eps
Route 66
TV · 1 ep
Hennesey
TV · 1 ep
The Rebel
TV · as Stable Owner, Meyers · 1 ep
Kraft Music Hall
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV · as Self - Guest Host · 2 eps
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 3 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps