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Actor, Soupy Sales, was born Milton Supman on Jan 8, 1926 in Franklinton, NC. Sales died at the age of 83 on Oct 22, 2009 in The Bronx, New York City .

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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Classic Television Thursday #031 – The Show

By Michael on Apr 23, 2015 From Durnmoose Movie Musings

Last time we looked at the classic panel game What’s My Line, and in the featured episode the “mystery guest” was , so I thought this week we’d take a look at Mr. Pie-in-in-the-Face himself, . Born Milton Supman, “Soupy” is actually taken fro... Read full article


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Graduated in 1944 from Huntington High School in Huntington, West Virginia. He then enlisted in the United States Navy and served on the USS Randall (APA-224) in the South Pacific during the latter part of World War II.

After moving to Los Angeles, he eventually became an occasional fill-in host on "The Tonight Show.".

According to Sales' autobiography, the name Soupy Sales was derived from two things. "Soupy" came from "Soupbone", a nickname he got in his youth which was a mispronunciation of his real last name, Supman; and Sales came from the suggestion of an Ohio television manager who knew of a comic named "Chick Sales". Soupy knew that the man was referring to 1920s comic actor Charles 'Chic' Sale, but didn't correct him and accepted the name. Sales also went by the name of "Soupy Hines" for a while, which was a reference to (and a misspelling of) the famous soup company.

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