Soupy Sales
Acting • Born 1926-01-28 – Died 2009-10-22
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."
Filmography
47 credits
A Little Bit of Lipstck
Movie • 2000
Max
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
Movie • 1977
Santola
The Two Little Bears
Movie • 1961
Officer McGovern
Behind the Seams
Movie • 2000
Doorman
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
Movie • 1994
Moses
Birds Do It
Movie • 1966
Melvin Byrd
Bill's Hat
Movie • 1967
Black Scorpion Returns
Movie • 2001
Sonny Dey / Professor Prophet
Murder at N.B.C.
Movie • 1966
Palmer's Pick-Up
Movie • 1999
Ernie Bolza
Let's Go Mets
Movie • 1986
Self
Holy Man
Movie • 1998
Soupy Sales
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Henry Geller
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV • 1996
Self
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Victor Marshall
Boy Meets World
TV • 1993
Mr. Martini
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
Route 66
TV • 1960
Wings
TV • 1990
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Monsters
TV • 1988
True Blue
TV • 1989
Hennesey
TV • 1959
The Hollywood Palace
TV • 1964
Self
The Johnny Cash Show
TV • 1969
Self
Hullabaloo
TV • 1965
Self
The Dean Martin Show
TV • 1965
The Rebel
TV • 1959
Stable Owner
Vacation Playhouse
TV • 1963
Fireman Smokey
The Barbara McNair Show
TV • 1969
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self - Co-Host
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Judy Garland Show
TV • 1963
Self
Vacation Playhouse
TV • 1963
Fred Brady
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Saturday Supercade
TV • 1983
Donkey Kong (voice)
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
The Rebel
TV • 1959
Meyers
The Carol Burnett Show
TV • 1967
Self
Hullabaloo
TV • 1965
Self - Host
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self - Guest Host
Donkey Kong
TV • 1983
Donkey Kong (voice)
Kraft Music Hall
TV • 1958
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self (uncredited)