Creator / Milton Berle

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor, with a career that spanned over 80 years. He started off in silent films and theatre as a child actor before moving on to radio, movies, and television, becoming the first major American star of the latter medium and earning the nicknames of "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" as the host of the wildly popular Variety Show Texaco Star Theater during the first Golden Age of Television.

Berle was also well-known in his lifetime for his reputation as an inveterate joke-stealer, for dressing in drag for comedic performances, and for legends about his having an extremely large penis.

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Works he's appeared in with TV Tropes pages:

Films

• The Bellboy
• Broadway Danny Rose
• Going Overboard
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• Journey Back to Oz
• The Loved One
• Margin for Error
• The Muppet Movie
• The Oscar
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure
• Who's Minding the Mint?

Television series

• Amazing Stories
• Batman (1966)
• Beverly Hills, 90210
• The Big Valley
• The Bold Ones
• The Brady Bunch Variety Hour
• CHiPs
• The Critic
• Diff'rent Strokes
• Due South
• The Fall Guy
• Fame
• Fantasy Island
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• F Troop
• Get Smart
• Gimme a Break!
• I Dream of Jeannie
• Ironside (1967)
• The Jack Benny Program
• Kraft Suspense Theatre
• Love, American Style
• The Love Boat
• The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
• The Lucy Show
• Mannix
• Matlock
• McCloud
• The Mod Squad
• The Muppet Show
• Murder, She Wrote
• The Nanny
• Roseanne
• Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
• Saturday Night Live
• Sister, Sister
• What's My Line?

Music videos

• "Round and Round" and "Back for More", by Ratt

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