Milton Berle Filmography

Frank Sinatra Memorial

Actors: Frank Sinatra

Synopsis: Family, friends, and associates recall "The Chairman of the Board" in this compilation video that salutes the world renowned, sometimes controversial singer and celebrity Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998). Born in Hoboken, NJ, Sinatra became one of the world's most admired all-around Read More

Steve Allen's 75th Birthday Celebration

Actors: Steve Allen, Bill Maher

Due South: Body Language

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Tony Craig

Synopsis: Fraser (Paul Gross) makes the acquaintance of exotic dancer Ida Banks (Lisa Engleman), who tells him that the Olympus Club, the strip joint where she works, has been targetted for a mob takeover. To make matters worse, Ida's mob-wannabe boyfriend Barry Pappas ( Nick Sandow) has confessed--in his Read More

Storybook

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, William McNamara, Sean Fitzgerald, Richard Moll, Milton Berle, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: A trip to the attic of his new house lands young Brandon and his loyal dog in a magical world ruled by a wicked queen. There he meets a captive prince and vows to help the youthful prince relocate a powerful sword and prevent it from falling into the queen's greedy hands. This fantasy adventure is Read More

The Real Story of Au Clair de la Lune

Actors: Milton Berle

Synopsis: This somewhat offbeat 30-minute cartoon special was originally part of Cinar's The Real Story of... anthology, wherein the histories of such popular songs as "O Christmas Tree" and "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" were recounted in a highly fanciful fashion. On this occasion, Milton Berle provides the Read More

Hello Kaye Ballard!

Actors: Kaye Ballard

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Season 04

Actors: Will Smith, James Avery, Daphne Maxwell Reid, Alfonso Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons, Tatyana Ali, Joseph Marcell

Synopsis: The big news during The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's fourth season is the arrival of new cast member Daphne Maxwell Reid, replacing Janet Hubert-Whitten in the role of Vivian Banks, the wealthy but down-to-earth aunt of wise-guy West Philly transplant Will Smith (Will Smith). Otherwise, the rest of Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Ill Will

Synopsis: The Banks family begins to panic when Geoffrey (Joseph Marcell) announces that he has written his "tell-all" memoirs. At the same time, Will (Will Smith) is terrified at the prospect of having his tonsils removed. The latter plotline eventually segues into a surrealistic nightmare sequence before Read More

Driving Me Crazy

Actors: Thomas Gottschalk, Billy Dee Williams, Michelle Johnson, James Tolkan, Steve Kanaly, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: It probably takes an intimate acquaintance with East Germany's famously awful car, a smoky, noisy two-cylinder lawnmower on wheels, the Trabant 601, to fully appreciate the jokes in this extremely popular, celebrity-filled comedy. In the story, Gunther (German television star Thomas Gotttschalk) Read More

Carnival of Comedy

Actors: Milton Berle

Help Save Planet Earth: Easy Ways to Make a Difference

Actors: Ted Danson

Best of 50's Comedy

Happy Birthday, Bugs: 50 Looney Years

Synopsis: Happy Birthday, Bugs: 50 Looney Years is a television special celebrating 50 years of Bugs Bunny cartoons, complete with testimonials from various celebrities and a terrific end-piece "50 Years of Bugs in 3 Minutes," which features a manic collection of highlights compiled by Academy Award-winner Chuck Workman Read More

Milton Berle: The Second Time Around - Comedy Carnival

Milton Berle: The Second Time Around - Funny Fifties

Milton Berle: The Second Time Around [TV Documentary Series]

Crew: Producer

Milton Berle: The Second Time Around - Legends

Side by Side

Synopsis: Three giants of early television--Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Danny Thomas--combine their talents in the made-for-TV Side by Side. Berle and Caesar play a couple of 65-year-olds who've just been forcibly retired; Thomas portrays a widower, who's been aimless and lethargic since the death of his Read More

The Spike Jones Story

Synopsis: This television documentary chronicles the career of Spike Jones, a talented musical satirist who had audiences of the '50s rolling in the aisles as he and his City Slickers committed inventive forms of musical murder on some of America's most beloved songs. Archival footage from performances Read More

Milton Berle Invites You to a Night at La Cage

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Milton Berle hosts this look at the world of drag-queens and female impersonators, courtesy of La Cage. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Jonathan Winters on the Edge

Actors: Jonathan Winters

Fozzie's Muppet Scrapbook

Synopsis: This entertaining video features Fozzie Bear and his scrapbook. Find out why he is the first bear of comedy! ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

Actors: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Judd Omen

Synopsis: Co-written by Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure marks the debut of director Tim Burton, who stamps the entire film with his quirky trademark style. The premise: Pee Wee (Reubens), an overgrown pre-pubescent boy sporting a molded Princeton cut, blush, lipstick, and a shrunken Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Broadway Malady

Synopsis: Celebrated Broadway musical star Vivian Blaine is cast as--what else?--a celebrated Broadway musical star, named Rita Bristol. Headling a new production costarring her daughter Patti (Lorna Luft) and produced by her son Barry (Gregg Henry), Rita is among those expressing concern when an aspiring Read More

Broadway Danny Rose

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte, Milton Berle, Sandy Baron

Synopsis: A smaller, amusing comedy from writer/director Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose begins with a bunch of show business vets sitting around a table at New York's Carnegie Deli and reminiscing about the legendary titular character, a loser of an agent who would represent anyone, including blind Read More

Cracking Up

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Herb Edelman, Foster Brooks, Buddy Lester

Synopsis: Jerry Lewis reprises his previous movie persona, this time as Warren Nefron, a man unable to successfully kill himself, while Herb Edelman is Dr. Jonas Pletchick, the psychiatrist out to cure him of his failure, in this undistinguished slapstick comedy. Many of Lewis' past routines crop up again Read More

Family Business

Actors: Brian Benben, David Rosenbaum, Milton Berle, Jeffrey Marcus, David Garfield

Synopsis: Based on Dick Goldberg's play, the made-for-TV Family Business stars Milton Berle as wealthy, truculent and dying toy manufacturer Isaiah Stern. Once more Stern has gathered together his grown sons to once more revise his will. Three of the four boys are used to these idiosyncratic changes, and Read More

Off Your Rocker

Synopsis: In this comedy, the aged residents of Flo Adler's Mapleview Nursing Home revolt against the corporate conglomerate threatening to take over their home. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Milton Berle

Actors: Milton Berle, Ornette Coleman

Synopsis: This 1979 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Milton Berle and features musical guest Ornette Coleman. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Muppet Movie

Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Charles Durning, Dave Goelz

Synopsis: Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have embarked on a quest for stardom. They take a trip to Hollywood, riding in or on a wide variety of vehicles along the way. They begin their journey on a bicycle pedalled by Read More

Hey Abbott!

Synopsis: Narrated by Milton Berle, Hey Abbott! is a videotape compilation of highlights from Abbott & Costello's numerous television programs. The tape includes routines like "Who's on First," "The Birthday Party," "Floogle Street" and "Oyster Stew." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Actors: Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho of a financially struggling studio turns a lost dog into a legend. The story features a number of old stars making cameo appearances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lepke

Actors: Tony Curtis, Anjanette Comer, Michael Callan, Warren Berlinger, Gianni Russo

Synopsis: Tony Curtis stars as the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting Read More

The Legend of Valentino

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Franco Nero, Yvette Mimieux

Synopsis: Legend of Valentino is a TV-shorthand retelling of the life and loves of legendary silent screen star Rudolph Valentino, here portrayed by Franco Nero. This TV movie was advertised as "romantic fiction," which was just as well since its only nods to the truth are the basic facts of Valentino's Read More

Milton Berle's Mad World of Comedy

Actors: Milton Berle

Synopsis: Milton Berle hosts this 1974 program, a look back at comedy appearances on his variety show plus material from contemporary comics. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

More Milton Berle's Mad World of Comedy

Actors: Milton Berle

Synopsis: Watch the comedy unfold as Milton Berle trades wisecracks with his hilarious guests on this videotape. Some of the funniest people in show business are featured in this collection hosted by "Mr. Television" himself. Pat Buttran, Dick Martin, Mort Sahl, and Eddie Quillon are interviewed. Footage of Read More

Journey Back to Oz

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In this animated follow-up to the classic fantasy The Wizard Of Oz, Dorothy (voiced by Liza Minnelli, whose mother Judy Garland played the same role in the 1939 film) decides to return to the land of Oz to pay a visit to her good friend The Scarecrow (voice of Mickey Rooney). However, shortly Read More

Evil Roy Slade

Actors: Edie Adams, John Astin, Pamela Austin, Henry Gibson, John Ritter, Dick Shawn, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise, Penny Marshall, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Overlooked when it first aired February 18, 1972, the made-for-TV Evil Roy Slade has gained a loyal and protective cult following in the past 20 years. The film was the second pilot for a never-sold TV western spoof created by Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson, Sheriff Who?. Actually, it was the Read More

Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

Actors: Anthony Newley, Joan Collins, Milton Berle, George Jessel, Connie Kreski

Synopsis: Singer, songwriter, and actor Anthony Newley produced, directed, co-wrote, scored, and starred in this bizarre autobiographical musical in which a famous entertainer takes a look back at the circumstances of his life. Legendary singing star Heironymus Merkin (Newley) stands by the sea, surrounded Read More

Seven in Darkness

Actors: Sean Garrison, Barry Nelson, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: Seven in Darkness has the distinction of being the first made-for-TV "ABC Movie of the Week." The "seven" are all blind people, passengers on a flight en route to a convention for the visually impaired. The plane crashes, forcing the sightless seven to struggle for survival in the hostile Read More

For Singles Only

Actors: John Saxon, Mary Ann Mobley, Lana Wood, Mark Richman, Ann Elder

Synopsis: Those looking for a tasteful but fun little musical comedy had best look elsewhere as this one is basically about the exploitation to two naive young women who move into a swinging singles complex to find some fun. Unfortunately, they end up objectified, and pursued. One of them leaves the place Read More

Ironside: I, the People

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Milton Berle is both guest star and cowriter of this episode, which was clearly inspired by the rantings of provocative TV talkshow host Joe Pyne. Playing completely straight, Berle is cast as vituperative TV personality Ross Howard, who hopes to parlay both his war record and his media notoreity Read More

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes, Dolores Sutton, Susan Saint James

Synopsis: Mother Simplicia (Rosalind Russell) is the head nun at an all-girl school. Aided by the young Sister George (Stella Stevens), the two try to convert the wayward girls to prim and proper ladies with a solid religious foundation. Rosabelle (Susan St. James) and Marvel Ann (Barbara Hunter), are the Read More

The Happening

Actors: Anthony Quinn, George Maharis, Michael Parks, Robert Walker, Jr., Martha Hyer

Synopsis: Four neophyte criminals get some unexpected help from their first victim in this caper comedy. A quartet of Miami Beach bohemians -- Sureshot (Michael Parks), Taurus (George Maharis), Herby (Robert Walker Jr.), and Sandy (Faye Dunaway) -- are looking for kicks and some fast money, and they hatch a Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Meets the Berles

Actors: Milton Berle, Ruth Cosgrove Berle, Mary Jane Croft, Ruta Lee

Synopsis: In this first episode of The Lucy Show's sixth and final season, Lucy (Lucille Ball) has briefly parted company with boss Mooney (Gale Gordon) to work part-time as a secretary for comedian Milton Berle). At the same time, Berle is attempting to change his image and become a dramatic actor, and to Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: The Second Greatest Con Artist in the World

Synopsis: In the first of three episodes filmed in Hawaii, Jeannie (Barbara Eden) and Tony (Larry Hagman) cross the paths of a clever con artist named Charlie (Milton Berle). Hoping to get his mitts on the valuable King Tut scarab pin in Jeannie's possession, Charlie "trades" the bauble for Diamondhead Read More

Who's Minding the Mint?

Actors: Jim Hutton, Dorothy Provine, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Harry Lucas (Jim Hutton) is a U.S. Mint employee who scrambles to recover $50,000 he accidentally destroyed in this underrated comedy of errors. After he mistakenly throws the money down the garbage disposal, a frantic Harry recruits retired mint employee Pop Gillis (Walter Brennan) to cook up a Read More

Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title

Actors: Morey Amsterdam, Richard Deacon, Tim Herbert

Synopsis: Unfortunately, the comedy in this film is just about as crummy as its title. On the bright side, it does feature a number of veterans from popular TV sitcoms. It is set in a run-down diner where a bumbling short-order cook and a klutzy waitress work. They are so terrible at their jobs that they Read More

The Oscar

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a Hollywood leading man who is desperate to boost his career by winning an Academy Award, and he doesn't care who he has to betray to achieve his goals -- including his former best Read More

F Troop: The Great Troop Robbery

Synopsis: Milton Berle guest stars as Wise Owl, an Indian psychiatrist (!) who moonlights as a thief. In order to continue robbing Indians and white men alike, Wise Owl contrives to shift blame for his crimes on Cpl. Agarn (Larry Storch). Helping matters along for the cagey Native American shrink is the Read More

That He Should Weep for Her

Synopsis: Milton Berle stars as jeweler Sam Morris, who is forced to kill a teenaged thief. Already grief-stricken by the incident, Morris is further tormented by the dead boy's vengeful sister (Carol Lawrence). She pretends to soften in order to allow Sam to think he's fallen in love with her--all part of Read More

The Loved One

Actors: Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer, Jonathan Winters, Rod Steiger, Dana Andrews, James Coburn

Synopsis: The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on the Southern California funeral industry but also a lampoon of Hollywood's "British colony," those clannish, cricket-playing English actors of years gone by who bemoaned Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Saves Milton Berle

Actors: Milton Berle, Milton Frome

Synopsis: In preparation for a dramatic movie role, comedian Milton Berle shows up at a skid-row soup kitchen disguised as an alcoholic bum. (He's got tea in his wine bottle, explaining "I'm not a wino -- I'm a tea-o." Barrump-bump!) Doing volunteer work at the soup kitchen, Lucy (Lucille Ball) spots Berle Read More

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton

Synopsis: With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the Read More

The Sound of Laughter

Synopsis: Ed Wynn hosts this compilation of comedic material from the likes of Imogene Coca and Buster Keaton. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Milton Berle Spectacular

Actors: Milton Berle

Doyle Against the House

The Bellboy

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton, Bill Richmond, Sonny Sands, Eddie Shaeffer

Synopsis: Jerry Lewis now claims that his film directorial debut came about when his home studio, Paramount, needed a summer-release Lewis vehicle in a hurry. Jerry and his entourage headed to the Fountainbleu hotel in Miami Beach, and 29 days later returned with The Bellboy. As narrator Walter Winchell Read More

Let's Make Love

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: Let's Make Love is a breezy comedy about an off Broadway musical production. Jean-Marc Clement (Yves Montand) is the richest man in the world and looking for someone who loves him instead of his money. He reads in Variety he is to be satirized in the new production and tries out for the part. The Read More

Wide Wide World: The Fabulous Infant

Actors: Dave Garroway, Milton Berle, Ernie Kovacs, Jack Webb, Albert McCreery

Synopsis: Dave Garroway hosts this all-star celebration of network television's tenth anniversary (actually, NBC and CBS had signed on in 1941, but 1947 is the "accepted" debut date). Utilizing the most up-to-date technology available at the time, the program features several remote pickups, with Garroway Read More

Dateline II

Synopsis: Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954 through 1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color 90 minute specials, bringing the best of Broadway to the 21 inch screen. On November 14, 1955, the series digressed from its usual format to present Dateline 2, the second annual variety Read More

The Buick-Berle Show [TV Series]

Always Leave Them Laughing

Actors: Milton Berle, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, Bert Lahr, Alan Hale

Synopsis: Milton Berle was enjoying the first flush of his television success when his musical-comedy movie vehicle Always Leave Them Laughing hit the screens. Though his character name is Kip Cooper, Uncle Miltie more or less plays himself: an ambitious comedian who rises to fame by stealing other Read More

Texaco Star Theater [TV Series]

Actors: Milton Berle

Margin for Error

Actors: Joan Bennett, Otto Preminger, Carl Esmond, Howard Freeman

Synopsis: Clare Booth Luce's once-timely stage comedy Margin for Error was indifferently transferred to the screen in 1943. Milton Berle stars as Moe Finkelstein, a Jewish Brooklyn policeman assigned to guard Nazi consul Karl Baumer (Otto Preminger) in pre-WW II New York. Baumer is not only an anti-Semitic Read More

Over My Dead Body

Actors: Milton Berle, Mary Beth Hughes, Reginald Denny, Frank Orth

Synopsis: If MGM's Red Skelton could make the mystery/comedy Whistling in the Dark, 20th Century-Fox's Milton Berle could show up in the mystery/comedy Over My Dead Body (Berle's reputation for lifting gags from other comics now extended to lifting plot material). Berle plays a mystery writer who forever Read More

Whispering Ghosts

Actors: Milton Berle, Brenda Joyce, John Shelton, Willie Best

Synopsis: The Milton Berle starrer Whispering Ghosts was clearly inspired by the Red Skelton comedy-mystery Whistling in the Dark (itself inspired by Bob Hope's The Ghost Breakers). Uncle Miltie is cast as H. H. Van Buren, a radio sleuth who delights in solving real-life mysteries ahead of the official Read More

A Gentleman at Heart

Actors: Cesar Romero, Carole Landis, Milton Berle, J. Carrol Naish, Richard Derr

Synopsis: Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough bookie with the proverbial golden heart. Romero falls in love with Carole Landis, an art shop proprietor who introduces her raffish romeo into the world of fine art. Utilizing his gambling skills, he amasses an impressive collection of valuable paintings, only Read More