"Kings of Comedy Mourn Funnyman Phil Silvers",
Comedian, Actor. Treat acting as a business and don't let it go to your head. Phil Silvers.
Maybe it's because as a small boy I wanted to grow up to become a man who could fix horse races or second-deal himself four aces in a poker game. It was a familiar sight to see Silvers achieved major popularity when he starred in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S. Army post in which he played Master Sergeant Ernest Bilko. And I feel the audience is as impatient as me.
143 other episodes were broadcast – all half-an-hour long except for a 1959 one-hour live special. Silvers began entertaining at the age of 11, when he would sing in theaters when the Silvers became a household name in 1955 when he starred as Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko in Throughout the 1960s, he appeared in films such as Like his alter-ego Ernie Bilko, Silvers was a compulsive gambler, and also suffered from "Phil Silver's Illness Threatens 'Forum' Run", ("Mr. Silvers has been out of the cast since he was stricken a week ago and hospitalized".) AKA Philip Silversmith. His zodiac sign is Taurus. The series was created by Nat Hiken, and won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Comedy Series.
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He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S. Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko. Has won two Tony Awards as Best Actor (Musical): in 1952 for "Top Banana", a role that he recreated in the film version of the same name,
He is best remembered for his classic role of ‘Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko’, in the television series, You'll Never Get Rich, later changed to The Phil Silvers Show (1954 to 1959). Phil Silvers was born on May 11, 1911 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA as Philip Silver. "Phil Silvers, TV'S Sergeant Bilko, Dead At 73", Farah, Judy. Phil Silvers is an American entertainer and comedy actor considered one of the greatest comedic geniuses from the Golden Age of Television.
I was always cast as Blinky the hero's good friend, who told the girl, usually Betty Grable, in the last reel that the hero really loved her.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Bilko in a toga"). Following his death, he was interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California. Frequently played deceitful con-artists Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah". When I'm alone, I just sort of stare. The greeting "Gladaseeya!" The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko of the United States Army.
The role eventually went to He also suffered a stroke in 1972 and was left with slurred speech.
Once, when complaining about his lack of work and being broke in Los Angeles, he absent-mindedly pulled out a large wad of bills. Enjoyed a long string of Broadway successes, most notably "High Button Shoes" (1948), "Top Banana" (1951, for which he won a Tony Award), "Do-Re-Mi" (1961), "How the Other Half Loves" (1970), and the revival of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (1971, and another Tony Award).
When asked about why did not live on that money, he replied it did not count because it was only his gambling money.
Appears as Master Sergeant Ernest G. (Ernie) Bilko on a 44¢ USA commemorative postage stamp, issued 11 August 2009, in the Early TV Memories issue honoring
(glad to see you) He was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6370 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 1, 2000.
[on his early films] I always played the same type role. He suffered from chronic depression and a nervous breakdown in 1962. I can make any villain lovable and sympathetic. When he spends the weekend at Lake Tahoe, Bilko brings in a lookalike and has all the cameras removed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1998).
American Actor Phil Silvers was born Philip Silver on 11th May, 1911 in New York, New York, USA and passed away on 1st Nov 1985 Century City, California, USA aged 74. A pilot called "Audition Show" was made in 1955, but never broadcast. The Col. comes home early … He also starred in the films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In 1962, he turned down the leading role of Pseudolus in the original stage production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" in part for this reason (he also thought the role was too much like "Sgt. His eyesight was so bad that he developed a fear of falling into the orchestra pit when he was on stage. People know that we actors are frightened.
Silvers' sight was failing fast, and to compensate for this fact he was wearing contact lenses as well as glasses. He was an actor, known for With Phil Silvers, Harvey Lembeck, Paul Ford, Maurice Gosfield.