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Milton Berle
MILTON BERLE (1908-2002) was an American comedian and actor. 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 t...view moreMILTON BERLE (1908-2002) was an American comedian and actor. 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 host of NBC’s Texaco Star Theater (1948-1955), 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. Born on July 12, 1908 in New York City, his career began at age 5 on the streets of upper Manhattan, entertaining other children with Charlie Chaplin imitations. An agent saw him and found work for him as the “Buster Brown” boy, selling shoes. After Charlie Chaplin heard about him, Berle appeared in several of his silent comedic films. He began in Broadway in 1920 on a musical called Floradora, then worked vaudeville. His first credited film was The Perils of Pauline (1914), the first of over 70 films, and he successfully made the transition to television in 1948 with The Milton Berle Show, which ran for nearly ten years. He died in Los Angeles, California on March 27, 2002, aged 93.
JOHN ROEBURT (1909-1972) was an American author of detective and suspense novels and radio and television dramas. Born on March 15, 1909 in New York, he graduated with a law degree from New York University before turning to writing, first as a crime reporter for The Brooklyn Eagle, and then, drawing on that background for articles and stories, in the documentary and fiction fields. Several of his detective novels were built around a character called Jigger Moran, and then increasingly turned to psychological themes. His other titles included The Climate of Hell, The Mobster and Sing Out Sweet Homicide. Roeburt received a bust of Edgar Allan Poe in 1949 for the outstanding mystery thriller on radio as chief writer of Inner Sanctum for CBS. He died on Fire Island, New York on May 22, 1972, aged 63.view less