Soupy Sales
Comedian, TV Actor
1926 – 2009
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Who was Soupy Sales?
Soupy Sales was an American comedian, actor, radio-TV personality and host, 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.
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- Born
- Jan 8, 1926
Franklinton - Also known as
- Milton Supman
- Soupy Hines
- Soup Bone
- Soupy
- Soupman
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Trudy Carson Sales
(1980/03/31 - 2009/10/22) - Barbara Fox
(1950 - 1979/08/27)
- Trudy Carson Sales
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Hungarian American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor's degree, Marshall University
Journalism
( - 1949)
- Bachelor's degree, Marshall University
- Lived in
- North Carolina
- Huntington
( - 1950) - Detroit
(1953 - ) - New York City
- Los Angeles
- Cleveland
(1950 - 1953)
- Died
- Oct 22, 2009
Calvary Hospital
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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