Soupy Sales (January 8, 1926 – October 22, 2009),
was an American comedian, actor, and radio-TV personality and host. 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.
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Soupy Sales (January 8, 1926 – October 22, 2009)
Sales was born Milton Supman, in Franklinton in Franklin County, North Carolina to Irving and Sadie Supman.[4] His father, a dry goods merchant, had emigrated to America from Hungary in 1894. Sales had two siblings, Leonard Supman (deceased) and Jack Supman (born 1921).Sales died on October 22, 2009, at the age of 83, at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York.
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