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    Milton Berle
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    Berle circa 1950
    Born Mendel Berlinger[1][2][3]
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    New York, New York, U.S.
    Died 27, 2002(2002-Template:MONTHNUMBER-27) (aged 93)
    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Spouse Joyce Mathews (1941–1947; 1949–1950)
    Ruth Cosgrove Rosenthal (1953–1989)
    Lorna Adams (1991–2002; his death)

    Milton Berle (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), he was the first major American television star[4] and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" during TV's golden age.

    Early life[]

    Milton Berle was born into a Jewish[5] family in a five-story walkup at 68 W. 118th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. His given name was Mendel Berlinger.[2][3] He chose Milton Berle as his professional name when he was 16. His father, M

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    Milton Berle Show, The (1966-67)

    During his multi-faceted rise as a performer, Milton Berle first appeared on television in a 1929 experimental broadcast in Chicago, when he emceed a closed-circuit telecast before 129 people. In the commercial TV era, he appeared in 1947 on DuMont station WABD (in Wanamaker's New York City department store) as an auctioneer to raise money for The Heart Fund. In the following year he would come to television in a far more prominent manner, and through the new medium become a national icon. He would become known as "Mr. Television," the first star the medium could call its own. Skyrocketing to national prominence in the late 1940s, he was also the first TV personality to suffer over-exposure and burn-out.

    Berle had begun his professional career at age five, working in motion pictures at Biograph Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey He appeared as the child on Marie Dressler's lap in Charlie Chaplin's Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), was tos

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    Milton Berle Biography (1908-2002)

    Born Mendal Berlinger, July 12, 1908, in New York, NY; son of Moses and Sarah(maiden name, Glantz) Berlinger; married Joyce Mathews, 1941 (divorced, 1947); remarried Joyce Mathews, 1949 (divorced, 1950); married Ruth Cosgrove Rosenthal, December 9, 1953 (died, 1989); married Lorna Adams (a clothing designer and publisher), 1991; children: (first marriage) two children; (third marriage) Vicki, Billy; (fourth marriage) Susan Moll (stepchild; a clothing designer). Addresses: Agent: Media Artists Group, 8383 Wilshire Blvd., SuiteF, Studio City, CA 91604.

    Nationality
    American
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Comedian, actor, producer, writer, lyricist, songwriter
    Birth Details
    July 12, 1908
    New York, New York, United States
    Death Details
    March 27, 2002
    Beverly Hills, California

    Famous Works

    • CREDITS
    • Stage Appearances
    • Floradora, Globe Theatre, Atlantic City, NJ, then Century Theatre,New York City, both 1920
    • Earl Carroll Vanities, 1932