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The Phil Silvers Show: Created by Nat Hiken. With Phil Silvers, Harvey Lembeck, Paul Ford, Allan Melvin. Master Sergeant Bilko, regularly helped by the soldiers at Fort Baxter's motor pool, spends little time performing his duties by constantly trying to obtain money through various get-rich-quick scams and promotions.
Jan 21, 2016 · Silvers had been a performer from the age of 11.He was in his 40s when Bilko kicked off, by then a seasoned veteran of burlesque, vaudeville, Hollywood, Broadway: all in all, a sturdy workhorse of ...
Phil Silvers returned to Broadway in 1947 in High Button Shoes with Nanette Fabray, and scored his biggest New York triumph four years later with Top Banana, playing an egocentric comedian reminiscent of Milton Berle. Silvers won the 1952 Tony Award® for his performance, which he repeated in the 1954 3-D film version.
Phil Silvers was a comedic actor of Russian-Jewish descent, nicknamed as "The King of Chutzpah." He was best known for his starring role as Master Sergeant Ernest "Ernie" Bilko in the hit sitcom "The Phil Silvers Show" (1955-1959). He had roles in the comedy films "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963), and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way ...
Nov 2, 1985 · Phil Silvers, 73, a Brooklyn-born comedian and vaudeville veteran who delighted generations of television audiences as Ernie Bilko, a glibly cunning, enthusiastically devious Army sergeant and con ...
Nov 2, 1985 · Nov. 2, 1985 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Phil Silvers, the one-time vaudevillian and burlesque comic who became world famous on television as a congenial Army con man named Sgt. Ernie Bilko ...
Classic military comedy set on the fictional Army base of Fort Baxter in Kansas and starred Phil Silvers as Sgt. Ernest Bilko, a fast-talking sharpster who would do anything to make an extra buck. Paul Ford co-starred as Colonel Hall, Bilko's harried commanding officer who often found himself stuck in the middle of Bilko's schemes.
