Acting
Community Rating
5.6
TMDB estimate
Born
January 28, 1926
Died
October 22, 2009 (age 83)
Born in
Franklinton, North Carolina, USA
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."

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
2016

Black Scorpion Returns
as Sonny Dey / Professor Prophet
2001

Behind the Seams
as Doorman
2000
A Little Bit of Lipstck
as Max
2000

Palmer's Pick-Up
as Ernie Bolza
1999

Holy Man
as Soupy Sales
1998

The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self
1996

The Making of '...And God Spoke'
as Moses
1994

Boy Meets World
as Mr. Martini
1993

Wings
1990

True Blue
1989

Monsters
as Howard Filby
1988

Let's Go Mets
as Self
1986

Saturday Supercade
as Donkey Kong (voice)
1983

Donkey Kong
as Donkey Kong (voice)
1983

Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
as Santola
1977

The Love Boat
as Victor Marshall
1977

Saturday Night Live
as Self (uncredited)
1975

Love, American Style
1969
The Barbara McNair Show
as Self
1969