Milton Berle Net Worth
Milton Berle Net Worth is
$1.6 Million
Milton Berle Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Milton Berle was born Milton Berlinger on July 12, 1908 in New York City. He was educated at New York Professional Children's School, and began performing at age 5. His first stage appearance was in "Florodora" in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He appeared at the Palace Theatre in New York in 1931, then in nightclubs and theatres. He appeared in the ... | Full Name | Milton Berle |
| Date Of Birth | July 12, 1908, New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | March 27, 2002, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Height | 5' 10½" (1.79 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Producer, Soundtrack |
| Education | Professional Children's School |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Lorna Adams (m. 1991–2002) |
| Children | Bob Williams, Victoria Berle, William Berle |
| Parents | Sarah Glantz Berlinger, Moses Berlinger |
| Siblings | Elias Berlinger, Phil Berle, Rosalind Berlinger, Jack Berlinger, Francis Berlinger |
| Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Kinescoped Personality |
| Nominations | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, TCA Career Achievement Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role |
| Movies | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Muppet Movie, Sun Valley Serenade, Margin for Error, The Loved One, Always Leave Them Laughing, Who's Minding the Mint?, New Faces of 1937, Radio City Revels, Journey Back to Oz, Whispering Ghosts, A Gentleman at Heart, Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, The Oscar... |
| TV Shows | Texaco Star Theatre, The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, Kraft Music Hall, Amazing Stories, Jackpot Bowling, Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad, The Music Shop |
| Star Sign | Cancer |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Always holding a cigar |
| 2 | Theme song: "Near You" |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [about versatility in entertainers] There are a lot of comedians who do everything good and nothing great. [Sammy Davis Jr.] as an entertainer does everything good and nothing great. Because there is no Sammy Davis. Sammy is doing Mel Tormé, Billy Eckstine, Billy Daniels, [Frank Sinatra]. |
| 2 | [on Bob Hope] Bob is a joke man. Bob will buy the motion picture rights to Critic's Choice (1963) and then add quite a few dozen one-liners. I think it is a fear of not being able to wait--and not hearing your laugh a second. |
| 3 | [his definition of a comic]. . . a comic is a guy who depends solely on the joke, and we have thousands of them. The comedian can get a laugh opening a door in the funny way that he does it and his attitude--that's a comic versus a comedian. Now a "funnyman" can get a laugh before opening his mouth--looking funny. Lou Costello was one of your great funnymen. Harry Langdon, Larry Semon; they were all funnymen--they LOOKED funny. W.C. Fields was never a comedian. Slim Summerville was a comedian, yet looked funny. Now if you have both attributes, you are in good shape. There is a great line between the comic, the comedian, the funnyman, the buffoon and the clown. I don't maybe do everything well--but I know the difference. |
| 4 | [on his early television show] The first year I was on, '48 or '49, I didn't even have a writer. I just remembered what I did for the last 20 years 'cause we couldn't afford a writer--there wasn't any money. So it was a pretty difficult thing and the facilities were difficult. |
| 5 | I have a file of four million jokes . . . I have them cross-indexed. Whatever subject you want, I have a joke on it. |
| 6 | [on his beginning as a comic] I had copied my style from a great comic, Ted Healy. I patterned myself after Healy, with the hat turned up in front and the collegiate look. I was the brash, flippant wise guy, smart-ass type. |
| 7 | You show the emotion so you get the audience going the other way. |
| 8 | Don't burn, just singe. |
| 9 | You get a lot of awards when you're a star, and lots of them are irrelevant. |
| 10 | [how to tell a joke] Delivery, not stressing the punchline, timing. |
| 11 | Arnold Schwarzenegger has bigger boobs than his wife! |
| 12 | [to Arnold Schwarzenegger] You being funny with your accent is twice as big a deal as me being funny. They expect me to be funny! |
| 13 | Don't tell jokes only the band laughs at. |
| 14 | [on all the chatter at the 1965 Academy Awards about one romantic twosome in the audience] When I took out Woodrow Wilson's daughter, they didn't make such a fuss. |
| 15 | I live to laugh, and I laugh to live. |
| 16 | A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. |
| 17 | Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places. |
| 18 | If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. |
| 19 | If evolution works, why do mothers only have two hands. |
| 20 | An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it. |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Several of his screenplays and lyrics songs were written by Jerry Seelen. |
| 2 | Known to younger generations for his infamous pairing with drag queen RuPaul at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards. The two got along very poorly on-camera, spending more time going off-script and lobbing harsh potshots and verbal low blows at each other than actually presenting an award. They also got along just as poorly backstage, if not more so. RuPaul claimed Berle was acting rude and sexually inappropriate towards him, even allegedly touching RuPaul's false breasts at one point. This incident prompted RuPaul to end what was, until then, a very prosperous professional relationship with MTV. |
| 3 | Following his death, he was interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. |
| 4 | Interviewed in "The Great Comedians Talk About Comedy" by Larry Wilde (1968). |
| 5 | He became a vegetarian in the early 1940s. |
| 6 | Appears on a 44¢ USA commemorative postage stamp, issued 11 August 2009, in the Early TV Memories issue honoring "Texaco Star Theater" (titled Texaco Star Theatre (1948), 1954-1956). |
| 7 | Berle was famed in Hollywood for the alleged size of an "unmentionable" portion of his anatomy. An often recounted (and possibly apocryphal) story was that when he was once challenged to a "face-off" with another man to prove who had the larger one, a friend said, "We're in a hurry, Milton, just take out enough to win.". |
| 8 | Described a brief affair with Aimee Semple McPherson in 1930 in his 1975 autobiography, "Milton Berle: An Autobiography". |
| 9 | He was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame--for Television at 6263 Hollywood Blvd. and for Radio at 6771 Hollywood Blvd. |
| 10 | Godfather of musician Billy Sherwood. |
| 11 | In 1947 he founded the Friars Club of Beverly Hills at the old Savoy Hotel on Sunset Boulevard. Other founding members included Jimmy Durante, George Jessel, Robert Taylor and Bing Crosby. The club, which moved to Beverly Hills in 1961, is a private show business club famous for its celebrity members and roasts, where a member is mocked by their club friends in good fun. |
| 12 | Berle co-wrote, with Ben Oakland, the title song for the film Li'l Abner (1940). |
| 13 | He died on the same day as Dudley Moore and Billy Wilder. Coincidentally, Berle and Moore both made guest appearances in The Muppet Show (1976). |
| 14 | In May 1949 he hosted the world's first charity telethon, benefiting the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund. The program lasted 24 hours. |
| 15 | Began his professional career at age five, working in motion pictures at the American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. studios in Fort Lee, NJ. |
| 16 | Had three grandsons: James, Mathew and Tyler Roe. |
| 17 | Had three children: Victoria, William and Bob Williams. |
| 18 | In 1962 NBC tried to develop a television series around incidents in his life, but the series never got beyond the planning stage. |
| 19 | Uncle of Warren Berlinger. |
| 20 | Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald S. Smith, pg. 46-48. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387 |
| 21 | In 1984 he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame, and in 1991 became the first entertainer inducted into the International Comedy Hall of Fame. |
| 22 | Was a regular on the "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts". |
| 23 | Was well-known as an outrageous joke thief, which frequently rankled some of his fellow performers. One time, he said to Groucho Marx, "You know, Groucho, I've stolen some of my best jokes from you." Without missing a beat, Groucho replied, "Then you weren't listening.". |
| 24 | His mother, Sarah Berlinger (later called Sandra Berle), was often shown on camera as she sat in the audience for Texaco Star Theatre (1948). |
| 25 | Changed his name to Berle from Berlinger in 1920. |
| 26 | Always opened his television show by making an entrance in a different costume each week. |
| 27 | Credits his survival as a television icon with his 30-year contract with NBC (Groucho Marx once joked about this saying: "30 years with NBC? That's not a contract. That's a sentence!"). |
| 28 | Had a longtime joking rivalry with Bishop Fulton J. Sheen ("Uncle Fultie"), whose television show was on opposite his for many years ("He stayed on longer than I did because, let's face it, he had better writers. Mark, Luke ..."). |
| 29 | On Dec. 5, 1999, he suffered a mild stroke at his home in California. |
| 30 | In April 2001 he was diagnosed with a slow-growing cancerous tumor in his colon. Doctors said he did not need surgery and the cancer would take 10 to 12 years to affect him. This turned out to be incorrect, as Berle died less than a year later. |
| 31 | Stepfather-in-law of Richard Moll. |
| 32 | Had four siblings: Phil Berle (born 1901), Francis (born 1904), Jack (born 1905) and Rosalind (born 1913) (all deceased). |
| 33 | Parents are Moses Berlinger (1873-1938) and Sarah Berlinger (1877-1954). |
| 34 | Appeared for the first time on television in an experimental TV broadcast in 1929, and sometimes is credited with being the first person to appear on television, possibly because a film of the broadcast has survived. On April 7, 1927, an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover was transmitted by AT&T in the first successful long distance demonstration of TV. Later that day, AT&T broadcast other material, including vaudeville comedian A. Dolan. WRNY (Coytesville, New Jersey) became the first standard radio station to transmit a television image, the face of Mrs. John Geloso, on August 13, 1928 in a process resembling early Web "broadcasts", with a delay of a few seconds between image and voice, while on August 22, 1928, WGY simultaneously broadcast Alfred E. Smith accepting the Democratic presidential nomination on radio and TV. "The Queen's Messenger" was the first play broadcast by television, on September 11, 1928 by W2XAD, an event that made the front page of the New York Times. Thus, Berle cannot be considered the first "television performer" in history. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenan & Kel: Two Heads Are Better Than None | 2000 | TV Movie | Uncle Leo |
| Storybook | 1996 | Illuzor | |
| Due South | 1996 | TV Series | Shelley Litvak |
| Sister, Sister | 1996 | TV Series | Edgar Boggs |
| Roseanne | 1995 | TV Series | Transvestite at Wedding |
| The Nanny | 1995 | TV Series | Uncle Manny |
| Fudge | 1995 | TV Series | Leo |
| The Critic | 1995 | TV Series | Milton Berle |
| Beverly Hills, 90210 | 1995 | TV Series | Saul Howard |
| Jingle Bell Rock | 1995 | TV Movie | Jerry Labello (voice) |
| Burke's Law | 1994 | TV Series | Buddy Boyle |
| Matlock | 1993 | TV Series | Harvey Chase |
| The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | 1992 | TV Series | Max Jakey |
| Shakes the Clown | 1991 | Male Clown Barfly (uncredited) | |
| Driving Me Crazy | 1991 | Hotel Clerk | |
| Milton Berle, the Second Time Around: Carnival of Comedy | 1989 | Video | |
| Side by Side | 1988 | TV Movie | Abe Mercer |
| Jonathan Winters: On the Ledge | 1987 | TV Movie | Jonathan's Father |
| The Love Boat | 1977-1985 | TV Series | Lionel Cooper / Mr. Fenley / Zeke / ... |
| Pee-wee's Big Adventure | 1985 | Milton Berle (uncredited) | |
| Fame | 1985 | TV Series | Nathan Adler |
| Murder, She Wrote | 1985 | TV Series | Lew Feldman |
| Gimme a Break! | 1984 | TV Series | Leopold |
| Diff'rent Strokes | 1984 | TV Series | Rabbi Morris |
| Broadway Danny Rose | 1984 | Milton Berle | |
| Ratt: Round and Round | 1984 | Video short | Husband / Wife |
| Fantasy Island | 1983 | TV Series | Mickey Masterson |
| Cracking Up | 1983 | Ms. Sultry | |
| American Playhouse | 1983 | TV Series | Isaiah Stern |
| Off Your Rocker | 1982 | TV Movie | Henry Foster |
| CHiPs | 1980 | TV Series | Milton Berle |
| The Muppet Movie | 1979 | Mad Man Mooney | |
| Have I Got a Christmas for You | 1977 | TV Movie | Morris Glickstein |
| Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood | 1976 | Blind Man | |
| The Legend of Valentino | 1975 | TV Movie | Jesse Lasky |
| Lepke | 1975 | Mr. Meyer | |
| Here's Lucy | 1969-1974 | TV Series | Milton Berle / Cheerful Charlie |
| Journey Back to Oz | 1972 | The Cowardly Lion (voice) | |
| The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | 1972 | TV Series | Dr. Larry Cormack |
| Arnie | 1972 | TV Series | |
| McCloud | 1972 | TV Series | Malcolm Garnett |
| Evil Roy Slade | 1972 | TV Movie | Harry Fern |
| Norman Corwin Presents | 1972 | TV Series | |
| Mannix | 1971 | TV Series | Danny Brite |
| Mod Squad | 1971 | TV Series | Uncle Bobo |
| Love, American Style | 1970-1971 | TV Series | Harry (segment "Love and the Vacation") / Brian Carter (segment "Love and the Old Boyfriend") |
| Make Room for Granddaddy | 1971 | TV Series | |
| The Jackie Gleason Show | 1969 | TV Series | Black Bart |
| Seven in Darkness | 1969 | TV Movie | Sam Fuller |
| Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? | 1969 | Goodtime Eddie Filth | |
| Ironside | 1968 | TV Series | Ross Howard |
| For Singles Only | 1968 | Mr. Parker | |
| Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! | 1968 | The Movie Director: The 'In' Group | |
| Get Smart | 1968 | TV Series | Desk Clerk |
| Star Spangled Salesman | 1968 | Documentary | Studio President |
| Batman | 1966-1968 | TV Series | Louie, the Lilac / Prison Guard |
| The Red Skelton Hour | 1966-1967 | TV Series | Nutty Nougat / Duke No-Good |
| I Dream of Jeannie | 1967 | TV Series | Charles |
| Who's Minding the Mint? | 1967 | Luther Burton | |
| The Big Valley | 1967 | TV Series | Josiah Freeman |
| The Happening | 1967 | Fred | |
| The Lucy Show | 1966 | TV Series | Milton Berle |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1963-1966 | TV Series | Parker Hite |
| F Troop | 1966 | TV Series | Wise Owl |
| Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title | 1966 | Bookstore Customer with Rope (uncredited) | |
| The Oscar | 1966 | Kappy Kapstetter | |
| The Trials of O'Brien | 1965 | TV Series | Boozey Bailey |
| The Loved One | 1965 | Mr. Kenton | |
| Valentine's Day | 1965 | TV Series | Pete Michaels, boxing manager |
| The Jack Benny Program | 1960-1965 | TV Series | Milton Berle / Marvin |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | 1964 | TV Series | Sam Morris |
| The Defenders | 1964 | TV Series | Denny Martin |
| It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | 1963 | J. Russell Finch | |
| General Hospital | 1963 | TV Series | Mickey Miller |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | 1961-1963 | TV Series | Blackjack Dealer / Eddie Doyle |
| The Milton Berle Spectacular | 1962 | TV Movie | Host / Cleopatra |
| The Barbara Stanwyck Show | 1961 | TV Series | Charlie Zane |
| The Bellboy | 1960 | Milton Berle / Bellboy (uncredited) | |
| Make Room for Daddy | 1959 | TV Series | Milton Berle |
| Sunday Showcase | 1959 | TV Series | Milton Berle |
| Kraft Theatre | 1958 | TV Series | Joe Hillyer |
| The Alan Young Show | 1950 | TV Series | |
| Always Leave Them Laughing | 1949 | Kipling 'Kip' Cooper | |
| Margin for Error | 1943 | Moe Finkelstein | |
| Over My Dead Body | 1942 | Jason Cordry | |
| Whispering Ghosts | 1942 | H.H. Van Buren | |
| A Gentleman at Heart | 1942 | Lucky Cullen | |
| Rise and Shine | 1941 | Seabiscuit | |
| Sun Valley Serenade | 1941 | Nifty Allen | |
| The Great American Broadcast | 1941 | Radio Announcer (scenes deleted) | |
| Tall, Dark and Handsome | 1941 | Frosty Welch | |
| Radio City Revels | 1938 | Teddy Jordan | |
| New Faces of 1937 | 1937 | Wallington Wedge | |
| Poppin' the Cork | 1933 | Short | Elmer Brown |
| Ruth of the Range | 1923 | Bit Role (unconfirmed, uncredited) | |
| Tess of the Storm Country | 1922 | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | 1921 | Boy (uncredited) | |
| The Mark of Zorro | 1920 | Boy (uncredited) | |
| Birthright | 1920 | as Milton Berlinger | |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | 1917 | Bit Part (uncredited) | |
| Fanchon, the Cricket | 1915 | Bit Role (unconfirmed, uncredited) | |
| Bunny's Little Brother | 1914 | Short | Child - Minor Role (uncredited) |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Berle, the Second Time Around: Carnival of Comedy | 1989 | Video executive producer | |
| Milton Berle, the Second Time Around: The Funny Fifties | 1989 | Video executive producer | |
| Sunday Showcase | 1959 | TV Series producer - 1 episode | |
| Texaco Star Theatre | TV Series executive producer - 45 episodes, 1948 - 1949 producer - 9 episodes, 1954 - 1956 |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roger & Me | 1989 | Documentary writer: "Lucky, Lucky Me" | |
| Parade of Stars | 1983 | TV Movie performer: "September Song" | |
| M*A*S*H | 1980 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Saturday Night Live | 1979 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| The Muppet Show | 1977 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| The Brady Bunch Variety Hour | 1977 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Journey Back to Oz | 1972 | performer: "N-E-R-V-E" | |
| That Girl | 1971 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| For Singles Only | 1968 | writer: "For Singles Only" | |
| Texaco Star Theatre | TV Series performer - 8 episodes, 1949 - 1954 writer - 2 episodes, 1949 - 1954 | ||
| Always Leave Them Laughing | 1949 | "Always Leave Them Laughing" 1949, uncredited / performer: "How Many Hearts Have You Broken with Those Great Big Beautiful Eyes" 1943, "This Is Not Goodbye" 1949, "Miss Otis Regrets" 1934, "Carolina in the Morning" 1922, "I Got Rhythm" 1930, "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" 1938, "April Showers" 1921, "You're Too Intense" 1949, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" 1909, "Your Eyes Have Told Me So" - uncredited / writer: "Always Leave Them Laughing" 1949, "You're Too Intense" 1949 - uncredited | |
| Community Sing No. 12, Volume 10 | 1945 | Short writer: "You're Not Foolin' Anyone but Yourself" | |
| Sun Valley Serenade | 1941 | performer: "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain When She Comes", "Jingle Bells" 1857 - uncredited | |
| Li'l Abner | 1940 | writer: "Li'l Abner" | |
| Poppin' the Cork | 1933 | Short performer: "Here's Looking at You" - uncredited |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Berle, the Second Time Around: Carnival of Comedy | 1989 | Video directed by | |
| Milton Berle, the Second Time Around: The Funny Fifties | 1989 | Video directed by | |
| Texaco Star Theatre | 1954-1956 | TV Series 8 episodes |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matlock | 1993 | TV Series written by - 1 episode | |
| Ironside | 1968 | TV Series written by - 1 episode | |
| Texaco Star Theatre | 1948 | TV Series writer |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Unknown Marx Brothers | 1993 | TV Movie documentary film and television clips furnished by |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Unknown Marx Brothers | 1993 | TV Movie documentary special thanks | |
| This Is Elvis | 1981 | the producers gratefully acknowledge |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Tribute to Mr. Television Milton Berle | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1978 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jack Klugman | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Jim Nabors Show | 1978 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Frank Sinatra | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Kraft 75th Anniversary Special | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| Donny and Marie | 1976-1977 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Muppet Show | 1977 | TV Series | Himself - Special Guest Star |
| The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1977 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Brady Bunch Variety Hour | 1977 | TV Series | Himself |
| Sha Na Na | 1977 | TV Series | Himself |
| Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Danny Thomas | 1976 | TV Special | Himself |
| CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years | 1976 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Redd Foxx | 1976 | TV Special | Himself |
| NBC: The First Fifty Years - A Closer Look | 1976 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Cos | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| The David Steinberg Show | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 28th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1976 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series |
| Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Dennis Weaver | 1976 | TV Special | Himself |
| Joys | 1976 | TV Special | Himself |
| Tony Orlando and Dawn | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| Friars Club Tribute to Gene Kelly | 1976 | TV Movie | Himself - Speaker |
| Dinah! | 1975 | TV Series | Himself |
| Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Valerie Harper | 1975 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Evel Knievel | 1975 | TV Special | Himself |
| Tattletales | 1975 | TV Series | Himself |
| Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Sammy Davis Jr. | 1975 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 29th Annual Tony Awards | 1975 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jackie Gleason | 1975 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Smothers Brothers Show | 1975 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Lucille Ball | 1975 | TV Special | Himself |
| American Guild of Variety Artists 5th Annual Entertainer of the Year Awards | 1975 | TV Movie | Himself - Presenter |
| The Sunshine Boys | 1975/II | Documentary short | Himself |
| The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Bob Hope | 1974 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Bob Braun Show | 1974 | TV Series | Himself |
| Milton Berle's Mad Mad Mad World of Comedy | 1974 | TV Movie | Himself |
| NBC Follies | 1973 | TV Series | Himself |
| Hollywood's Talking | 1973 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Vin Scully Show | 1973 | TV Series | Himself |
| Stand Up and Cheer | 1972 | TV Series | Himself |
| Zenith Presents: A Salute to Television's 25th Anniversary | 1972 | TV Special | Himself |
| Salute to Oscar Hammerstein II | 1972 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Bob Hope Special | 1972/I | TV Special | Himself |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1971-1972 | TV Series | Himself - Comedian / Himself |
| This Is Your Life | 1972 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Virginia Graham Show | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 23rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1971 | TV Special | Himself |
| Plimpton! Did You Hear the One About? | 1971 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Kraft Music Hall | 1969-1971 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Host |
| That Girl | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1950-1970 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Guest Host |
| Can You Top This | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| The David Frost Show | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Engelbert Humperdinck Show | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| Playboy After Dark | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| Laugh-In | 1968-1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Jackie Gleason Show | 1967-1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| Della | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Hollywood Palace | 1965-1969 | TV Series | Himself - Host / Himself |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1968-1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| Silent Treatment | 1968 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Jonathan Winters Show | 1967-1968 | TV Series | Himself |
| First Annual All-Star Celebrity Softball Game | 1967 | TV Special | Himself - All-Stars Manager |
| The Lucy Show | 1965-1967 | TV Series | Himself |
| Off to See the Wizard | 1967 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| Dateline: Hollywood | 1967 | TV Series | Himself |
| Gypsy | 1967 | TV Series | Himself |
| Las Vegas | 1967 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Milton Berle Show | 1966 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| The 38th Annual Academy Awards | 1966 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show | 1966 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Jimmy Dean Show | 1965 | TV Series | Himself - Cameo |
| The Dean Martin Show | 1965 | TV Series | Himself |
| What's My Line? | 1956-1965 | TV Series | Himself - Mystery Guest / Himself |
| The 37th Annual Academy Awards | 1965 | TV Special | Himself - Audience Member |
| The Andy Williams Show | 1962-1964 | TV Series | Himself |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1964 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Bob Hope Show | 1954-1964 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1962-1964 | TV Series | Himself |
| Sing Along with Mitch | 1964 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Jack Paar Program | 1963 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | 1963 | TV Series | Himself - Guest Host |
| Telescope | 1963 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Jack Paar Tonight Show | 1962 | TV Series | Himself |
| Here's Hollywood | 1960-1962 | TV Series | Himself |
| I've Got a Secret | 1962 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | 1961 | TV Series | Himself |
| The DuPont Show of the Week | 1961 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Ladies Man | 1961 | Himself (scenes deleted) | |
| This Is Your Life | 1956-1961 | TV Series | Himself |
| Phillies Jackpot Bowling | 1960-1961 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| Let's Make Love | 1960 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Special Gala to Support Kennedy Campaign | 1960 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Celebrity Golf | 1960 | TV Series | |
| Sunday Showcase | 1959 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour | 1959 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Arthur Murray Party | 1959 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Milton Berle Show | 1958-1959 | TV Series | Himself - Host / Himself / Barney Bigmouth |
| Person to Person | 1959 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Music Shop | 1959 | TV Series | Himself |
| The All-Star Christmas Show | 1958 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Steve Allen Plymouth Show | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Red Skelton Hour | 1958 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| Washington Square | 1957 | TV Series | Himself |
| Texaco Star Theatre | 1948-1956 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| The Jimmy Durante Show | 1956 | TV Series | Himself |
| Producers' Showcase | 1955 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - in Commercial |
| Max Liebman Presents: Big Time | 1955 | TV Movie | Himself - Host |
| The Colgate Comedy Hour | 1951-1954 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Host |
| The Paul Winchell Show | 1953 | TV Series | Himself |
| All Star Revue | 1951-1953 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Buick Circus Hour | 1952 | TV Series | Himself |
| Your Hit Parade | 1952 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Kate Smith Evening Hour | 1951 | TV Series | Himself |
| Screen Snapshots: The Great Director | 1951 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter | 1951 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Frank Sinatra Show | 1950 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Star-Spangled Revue | 1950 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Popsicle Parade of Stars | 1950 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| All-Star Thanksgiving Show | 1949 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Admiral Broadway Revue | 1949 | TV Series | Himself - Cameo Appearance |
| The Swift Show | 1949 | TV Series | Himself - Surprise Guest |
| Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 1 | 1941 | Short | Himself |
| Meet the Stars #4: Variety Reel #2 | 1941 | Documentary short | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| Hollywood Hobbies | 1939 | Short | Himself (uncredited) |
| Broadway Highlights No. 2 | 1935 | Short | Himself |
| Milton Berle: An All-Star Tribute to 'Mr. Television' | 2002 | Video | Himself |
| Biography | 1995-2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| 2001 MTV Video Music Awards | 2001 | TV Special | Himself |
| AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies | 2000 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Let Me In, I Hear Laughter | 2000 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Rat Pack | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| E! True Hollywood Story | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Television: The First Fifty Years | 1999 | Video documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
| The 50th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1998 | TV Special | Himself |
| NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Legend of Forrest Tucker | 1997 | Documentary short | Himself |
| American Masters | 1997 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Daily Show | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
| 50 Years of Television: A Celebration of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Golden Anniversary | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 48th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1996 | TV Special | Himself |
| You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2 | 1996 | Video Game | Himself - Celebrity Guest Appearance (voice) |
| The History of Rock 'n' Roll | 1995 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Howard Stern | 1995 | TV Series | Himself |
| Pioneers of Primetime | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Annual American Friends Hebrew University Scopus Awards Honoring Ted Turner | 1995 | TV Special | Himself |
| A Century of Cinema | 1994 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Second Annual Comedy Hall of Fame | 1994 | TV Special | Himself |
| Milton Berle: Mr. Television | 1994 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The First Annual Comedy Hall of Fame | 1993 | TV Special | Himself - Inductee |
| 1993 MTV Video Music Awards | 1993 | TV Special | Himself |
| Bob Hope: The First 90 Years | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Howard Stern Interview | 1993 | TV Series | Himself |
| Bob Hope and Other Young Comedians: The World Laughs, Young and Old | 1992 | TV Special | Himself |
| George Burns' 95th Birthday Party | 1991 | TV Special | Himself |
| Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' | 1991 | TV Movie documentary | Himself / J. Russell Finch |
| Help Save Planet Earth | 1990 | TV Special | Himself |
| Bob Hope: Don't Shoot, It's Only Me | 1990 | TV Special | Himself |
| Happy Birthday, Bugs!: 50 Looney Years | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The World of Jewish Humor | 1990 | Documentary | Himself |
| The 41st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1989 | TV Special | Himself |
| Going Overboard | 1989 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Live with Kelly and Ryan | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Spike Jones Story | 1988 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Princess Grace Foundation Special Gala Tribute to Cary Grant | 1988 | TV Movie | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon | 1988 | TV Special documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC | 1988 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1963-1988 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Guest / Himself - Guest Host |
| It's Howdy Doody Time | 1987 | TV Special | Himself |
| NBC Investigates Bob Hope | 1987 | TV Special | Mr. Fox |
| The New Hollywood Squares | 1986-1987 | TV Series | Himself - Center Square / Himself - Panelist |
| The Love Boat | 1987 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1986 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Annual Friars Club Tribute Presents a Salute to Roger Moore | 1986 | TV Movie | Himself |
| NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration | 1986 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| The 3rd Annual Television Academy Hall of Fame Awards | 1986 | TV Special | Himself |
| George Burns' 90th Birthday Party: A Very Special Special | 1986 | TV Special | Himself |
| Amazing Stories | 1985 | TV Series | Himself |
| Bob Hope Buys NBC? | 1985 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Cracker Brothers | 1985 | TV Movie | Himself |
| A Museum of Broadcasting Tribute: Milton Berle - Mr. Television | 1985 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Late Night with David Letterman | 1985 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Holywood Reporter Salutes Radie Harris | 1985 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Star Search | 1985 | TV Series | Himself - Introducer |
| Fozzie's Muppet Scrapbook | 1985 | Video | Himself |
| Bob Hope's Unrehearsed Antics of the Stars | 1984 | Documentary | Himself |
| Hot Potato | 1984 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 1st TV Academy Hall of Fame | 1984 | Himself - Winner | |
| The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Joan Collins | 1984 | TV Special | Himself |
| Live... And in Person | 1983 | TV Series | Himself |
| George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business | 1983 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Parade of Stars | 1983 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade | 1982 | TV Special | Himself |
| Tom Cottle: Up Close | 1982 | TV Series | Himself |
| Star-Studded Spoof of the New TV Season, G-Rated, with Glamour, Glitter and Gags | 1982 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 34th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1982 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 36th Annual Tony Awards | 1982 | TV Special | Himself |
| Night of 100 Stars | 1982 | TV Special | Himself |
| Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny | 1982 | TV Movie | Himself |
| NBC Family Christmas | 1981 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Fall Guy | 1981 | TV Series | Himself |
| Something Spectacular with Steve Allen | 1981 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Bob Hope's 30th Anniversary Special | 1981 | TV Special | Himself |
| Elvis Presley - Die frühen Jahre | 1980 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Annual Friars Club Tribute Presents a Salute to Milton Berle | 1980 | TV Movie | Himself - Honoree |
| The Hollywood Squares | 1971-1980 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
| The First 40 Years | 1980 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1979 | TV Special | Himself - Special Presentation Recipient |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1970-1979 | TV Series | Himself - Co-Host / Himself - Comedian / Himself - Comic |
| The Chevy Chase National Humor Test | 1979 | TV Movie | Himself / Celebrity loan officer |
| Saturday Night Live | 1979 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| George Burns' 100th Birthday Party | 1979 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Joe Namath | 1979 | TV Special | Himself |
| Hey, Abbott! | 1978 | Himself (voice) | |
| Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Suzanne Somers | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| Live Wednesday | 1978 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| Good Morning America | 1978 | TV Series | Himself |
| Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Betty White | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: George Burns | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| Old Friends... New Friends | 1978 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| America 2-Night | 1978 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Chuck Barris Rah-Rah Show | 1978 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome to the Basement | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
| Hey Moe, Hey Dad! | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton | 2014 | Video | Himself |
| The Sixties | 2014 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Louie the Lilac - Batman |
| Pioneers of Television | 2008-2014 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Texaco Star Theater / Himself |
| Edición Especial Coleccionista | 2010-2012 | TV Series | J. Russell Finch |
| Elvis Found Alive | 2012 | Himself | |
| 20/20 | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Here's Harry: Remembering Gale Gordon | 2011 | Video documentary short | Clip from 'Here's Lucy' |
| A Mime's Life | 2009 | Himself | |
| Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Starz Inside: In the Gutter | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Elvis: A Generous Heart | 2007 | Video documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project | 2007 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| E! True Hollywood Story | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Undercover History | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| Elvis: Broadcasting Live | 2006 | Video | Himself |
| Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself / Bellboy (uncredited) |
| James Dean: Forever Young | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
| Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live | 2005 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Funny Already: A History of Jewish Comedy | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time | 2004 | TV Mini-Series | Himself #29 |
| The Desilu Story | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Milton Berle Show: The Lost Elvis | 2003 | Video | Himself |
| The 75th Annual Academy Awards | 2003 | TV Special | Himself - In Memorium Tribute |
| Early Elvis: From Country Boy to King of Rock and Roll | 2002 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Bob Hope's Funniest Out-Takes | 2002 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Definitive Elvis: The Army Years | 2002 | Video documentary | Himself |
| The Definitive Elvis: The Memphis Years | 2002 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years | 2002 | Video documentary | |
| Cinerama Adventure | 2002 | Documentary | J. Russell Finch (in "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World") (uncredited) |
| Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Elvis Presley: His Early Performances | 2002 | Video documentary | Himself |
| The Nightclub Years | 2001 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| I Love Lucy's 50th Anniversary Special | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond | 2000 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| Playboy: The Party Continues | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Modern Marvels | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Roaster |
| Comic Relief VIII | 1998 | TV Special | Himself |
| Biography | 1996-1998 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Unexplained | 1998 | TV Series | Himself |
| Cronkite Remembers | 1997 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself (on The Milton Berle Show) (uncredited) |
| Classic Stand-Up Comedy of Television | 1996 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| The Buick Berle Show, 1954 | 1995 | Video | Himself |
| Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Ed Sullivan All-Star Comedy Special | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Unknown Marx Brothers | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| American Justice: Target - Mafia | 1993 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1990-1992 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - from the Bob Hope NBC Special DON'T SHOOT: IT'S ONLY ME |
| Legends of Comedy | 1992 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Stars and Stripes | 1990 | Documentary | Himself |
| Elvis '56 | 1987 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Our World | 1987 | TV Series | Himself |
| More Laughing Room Only | 1986 | Video | Himself |
| The Great Standups | 1984 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Showbiz Goes to War | 1982 | TV Movie | |
| Of Muppets and Men: The Making of 'The Muppet Show' | 1981 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| This Is Elvis | 1981 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| The Story of Elvis Presley | 1977 | Documentary | Himself |
| All This and World War II | 1976 | Documentary | Himself |
| Bob Hope's World of Comedy | 1976 | TV Movie | Himself |
| M*A*S*H | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television | 1975 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Hollywood Palace | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Sound of Laughter | 1963 | Documentary | Elmer Brown (Singer with Cocktail Glasses) |
| Project XX | 1960 | TV Series documentary | Himself - TV Actor |
| Texaco Star Theatre | 1955 | TV Series | Fred Burton |
| Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians | 1952 | Documentary short | |
| It Pays to Be Funny | 1947 | Elmer Brown (edited from: Poppin' the Cork) |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | OFTA TV Hall of Fame | Online Film & Television Association | Actors and Actresses | |
| 1996 | Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy | American Comedy Awards, USA | ||
| 1979 | Special Presentation | Primetime Emmy Awards | "Mr. Television". | |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Television | On 8 February 1960. At 6263 Hollywood Blvd. |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Radio | On 8 February 1960. At 6771 Hollywood Blvd. |
| 1950 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Most Outstanding Kinescope Personality |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Career Achievement Award | Television Critics Association Awards | ||
| 1995 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series | Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) |
| 1962 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | The Dick Powell Show (1961) |
Known for movies
The Milton Berle Show (1958-1959)
as Himself - Host / Barney Bigmouth / Himself
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000)
as Himself
The Hollywood Palace (1965-1970)
as Himself - Host / Himself
Hey, Abbott! (1978)
as Himself