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Milton Berle
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Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; Yiddish: מענדעל בערלינגער; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American actor and comedian. Berle's career as an entertainer spanned over 80 years, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theatre (1948–1953), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" during the first Golden Age of Television. He was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in both radio and TV.
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Frank Sinatra: One More for the Road
Elvis Through the Years
Pioneers of Primetime
James Dean: Forever Young
Biography: Bob Hope: America's Entertainer
Elvis: Rare Moments with the King
The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years
Two Heads Are Better Than None
Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club
Funny Is Money
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Storybook
A Century of Cinema
Driving Me Crazy
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
Jonathan Winters: On the Ledge
TV's Funniest Comedians - 14 Stars Do Classic Routines
Broadway Danny Rose
George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business
Cracking Up
Showbiz Goes to War
Off Your Rocker
Showbiz Ballyhoo
The Muppet Movie- THThe Chevy Chase National Humor Test
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
Hey Abbott
Have I Got a Christmas for You
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
NBC: The First Fifty Years
All This and World War II
Joys
The Legend of Valentino- TETexaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
Lepke
Journey Back to Oz
Evil Roy Slade
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
For Singles Only
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Star Spangled Salesman
Who's Minding the Mint?
The Happening- MUMurder at N.B.C.
The Oscar
The Loved One
The Sound of Laughter
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Let's Make Love
The All-Star Christmas Show
Always Leave Them Laughing
Margin for Error
A Gentleman at Heart
Over My Dead Body
Whispering Ghosts
Sun Valley Serenade
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Rise and Shine
Hollywood Hobbies
Radio City Revels
New Faces of 1937
Ruth of the Range
The Lucy-Desi Milton Berle Special