Milton Hines Supman (1926 - 2009)

Born 8 Jan 1926 in Franklinton, Franklin, North Carolina, United States

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Died 22 Oct 2009 at age 83 in Bronx, New York, United States

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Soupy Supman is buried in Kensico Cemetery.

Biography

Soupy Supman is Notable.

Soupy Sales is best known as an American comedian, actor, radio-TV personality and host. His children's television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales; a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, is his best known work. One of the characters he created was "White Fang", a large dog that played outrageous practical jokes on the seamen. The sounds for "White Fang" came from a recording of The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Sales was born Milton Supman, in Franklinton in Franklin County, North Carolina, to Irving and Sadie Supman. His father, a dry goods merchant, had immigrated to America from Hungary in 1894.

Sales was married twice: first to Barbara Fox (from 1950 until their divorce in 1979). They had two sons, both of whom are rock musicians: bassist Tony Sales and drummer Hunt Sales. In 1980, Sales married dancer Trudy Carson, who survives him.

Sales died on October 22, 2009, at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, aged 83, from cancer. He was buried at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, N.Y.

According to writer/columnist Mark Evanier, comedian Tim Powers reported that a fan left a cream pie on Sales' Hollywood Walk of Fame star.

Sources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X33M-FL5 : accessed 3 December 2018), Milton Supman in household of Irwin Supman, Franklinton, Franklin, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 7, sheet 5B, line 88, family 110, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1691; FHL microfilm 2,341,425.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7HR-KFK : 15 March 2018), Milton Supman in household of Felix Goldstein, Ward 1, Huntington, Kyle Magisterial District, Cabell, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 6-10B, sheet 1B, line 52, family 14, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4397.