Milton Berle
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Comic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Mr. Television
Father: Moses Berlinger
Mother: Sarah (d. 31-May-1954)
Brother: Phil Berle (b. 21-Jan-1901, d. 2-Jan-1999)
Brother: Francis (b. 1904, d.)
Brother: Jack (b. 1905, d.)
Sister: Rosalind (b. 1913, d.)
Wife: Joyce Mathews (m. 1941, div. 1947, two children adopted)
Wife: Joyce Mathews (remarried, m. 1949, div. 1950)
Wife: Ruth Cosgrove (m. 1953, d. 1989, one child adopted)
Wife: Lorna Adams (m. 1991, until his death)
Slept with: Aimee Semple McPherson (according to him)
Girlfriend: Pola Negri (according to Berle on Larry King Live)
Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame
Emmy 1950 Most Outstanding Kinescope Personality
Emmy 1979 (special, "Mr. Television")
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6263 Hollywood Blvd.
Rhinoplasty
Heart Bypass Operation (Jun-1985)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Driving Me Crazy (16-May-1991) · Hotel Clerk
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (19-Jul-1985) · Himself
Broadway Danny Rose (27-Jan-1984) · Himself
Cracking Up (1983)
The Muppet Movie (22-Jun-1979)
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (26-May-1976)
Lepke (1975)
Journey Back to Oz (5-Dec-1974) [VOICE]
Evil Roy Slade (18-Feb-1972)
Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (19-Mar-1969)
For Singles Only (5-Jun-1968)
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (10-Apr-1968) · The Movie Director
Who's Minding the Mint? (26-Sep-1967)
The Happening (Mar-1967) · Fred
The Oscar (4-Mar-1966) · Kappy Kapstetter
The Loved One (11-Oct-1965) · Mr. Kenton
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (7-Nov-1963) · J. Russell Finch
Always Leave Them Laughing (23-Nov-1949) · Kip Cooper
Margin for Error (8-Jan-1943)
Over My Dead Body (25-Dec-1942)
Whispering Ghosts (17-May-1942)
A Gentleman at Heart (16-Jan-1942) · Lucky Cullen
Sun Valley Serenade (21-Aug-1941)
Tall, Dark and Handsome (23-Jan-1941)
Radio City Revels (11-Feb-1938)
New Faces of 1937 (2-Jul-1937) · Wallington
Author of books:
Out of My Trunk: Milton Berle's Fabulous Fun-tasy (1945, humor)
Milton Berle: An Autobiography (1974, memoir, with Haskel Frankel)
B. S. I Love You: Sixty Funny Years with the Famous and the Infamous (1988, memoir)
Milton Berle's Private Joke File: Over 10,000 of His Best Gags, Anecdotes, and One-Liners (1989, humor)
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