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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Phil Silvers
		Silvers was very ill in the last few years of his life, even though he continued work into the early 1980s in film and TV, including a cameo appearance on Happy Days as the father of "Jenny Piccolo" (played by his real-life daughter Cathy Silvers).
		Phil Silvers had been around for years as the perennial 'second banana' - first in burlesque and vaudeville and then on Broadway and in the movies - when, after bringing the house down as MC of a CBS dinner in 1954, the network invited him to star in his own television comedy show.
		Silvers was the quintessential New York Jewish comedian, and the show - written and filmed in Manhattan - was blessed with all of the sharpness that typifies these twin centres of humour.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Phil-Silvers (3281 words)

	The Phil Silvers show is recognized as 1950's TV comedic genius. Join Olde Time Cooking in revisiting this ...
		The Phil Silvers show is recognized as 1950's TV comedic genius.
		Phil Silvers honed his incredible comedic genius on stage appearing at top clubs as Minskys.
		Phil Silvers played the part of Sgt. Bilko, a scheming sargent always trying to make a fast buck off of his fellow enlisted men (bilking them) and always one step ahead of the law.
	www.oldetimecooking.com /TV/philsilvers.htm (166 words)

	Phil Silvers Show, The (AKA Sergeant Bilko) - E-tailer lists 50th Anniversary Collection in May \| TVShowsOnDVD.com
		Phil Silvers Show, The (AKA Sergeant Bilko) - E-tailer lists 50th Anniversary Collection in May
		Phil Silvers Show, The (AKA Sergeant Bilko) - E-tailer lists 50th Anniversary Collection in May
		Friar's Stag Roast for Humphry Bogart (by Phil Silvers)
	www.tvshowsondvd.com /newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5004 (265 words)

	Home :: Phil Silvers Appreciation Society
		THE BRITISH PHIL SILVERS APPRECIATION SOCIETY is an organisation dedicated to preserving the life and work of American comedian Phil Silvers.
		Phil Silvers generously gave his blessing to the project and was delighted his appreciation society would be UK based.
		The society was proud to be associated with the unveiling of a star on the world famous Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000 and we are currently working on a number of projects in collaboration with Primal Pictures in the US.
	www.philsilvers.co.uk /index.htm (387 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - The Phil Silvers Show
		Phil Silvers had been around for years as the perennial 'second banana' - first in burlesque and vaudeville and then on Broadway and in the movies - when, after bringing the house down as MC of a CBS dinner in 1954, the network invited him to star in his own television comedy show.
		Silvers was the quintessential New York Jewish comedian, and the show - written and filmed in Manhattan - was blessed with all of the sharpness that typifies these twin centres of humour.
		Phil Silvers and Maurice Gosfield appeared together, in character, in a specially recorded greeting to the BBC, screened by the channel on the 21st anniversary of the launch of British television, 2 November 1957, during a programme titled The World Our Stage.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/p/philsilversshowt_7775245.shtml (2008 words)

	Phil Silvers - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor.
		Born Philip Silver in Brooklyn, New York, Silvers was the youngest of eight children in a Russian Jewish family.
		Silvers was very ill in the last few years of his life, even though he continued work into the early 1980s in film and TV, including a cameo appearance on Happy Days as the father of "Jenny Piccolo" (played by his real-life daughter Cathy Silvers).
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Phil_Silvers (810 words)

	Phil Silvers \| Biography \| MTV Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Silvers' singing career ended when his voice changed at 16, whereupon he took acting jobs in various touring vaudeville sketches.
		While convalescing, Silvers wrote his very candid autobiography, The Laugh Is on Me. He recovered to the extent that he could still perform, but his speech was slurred and his timing was gone.
		Phil Silvers was the father of actress Cathy Silvers, best known for her supporting work on the TV series Happy Days.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/57930/bio.jhtml (420 words)

	Phil Silvers Show, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Phil Silvers Show, a half-hour comedy series, first ran on CBS from September 1955 to September 1959.
		The series developed as a collaboration between Silvers, a Brooklyn-born veteran of vaudeville, Broadway, and motion pictures, and Nat Hiken, the show's unassuming head writer, producer, and stage director.
		Silvers and Hiken were given tremendous creative license by CBS to devise and cast the show.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/P/htmlP/philsilvers/philsilvers.htm (1104 words)

	Phil Silvers Information
		Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor.
		Silvers, interviewed before his death in 1985, revealed one of his secrets: “I’m an impatient comedian.
		Born in Brooklyn, New York, Silvers was the youngest of eight children in a Russian Jewish family.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Phil_Silvers (710 words)

	Silvers, Phil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Phil Silvers was one of the great stars for CBS television during the late 1950s.
		As played by Silvers, Bilko was an Army lifer, a motor pool master sergeant at isolated Fort Baxter located near the fictional Army small town Roseville, Kansas.
		Phil Silvers had had his four year run in television's spotlight.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/silversphil/silversphil.htm (980 words)

	The Phil Silvers Show at AllExperts
		The Phil Silvers Show (also known as You'll Never Get Rich and Sergeant Bilko) was a comedy television series which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959.
		It starred Phil Silvers as the conniving Master Sergeant Ernie Bilko of the United States Army, who spent his time trying to wheedle money using various get-rich-quick scams and con games.
		The Phil Silvers Show was the basis of a critically and commercially unsuccessful 1996 movie, Sgt.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/th/the_phil_silvers_show.htm (573 words)

	Phil Silvers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Phil Silvers is probably best known as Sgt. Ernie Bilko in the long-running television series "The Phil Silvers Show" in the 1950s.
		Silvers started performing as a singer in vaudeville when he was 11 years old, then joined Minsky's burlesque troupe as a comedian.
		Silvers was born Philip Silversmith on May 11, 1911 (some sources say 1912), in Brooklyn, NY.
	www.cemeteryguide.com /silvers.html (330 words)

	Phil Silvers - MovieActors.com
		Phil Silvers was Born on May 11, 1911 in New York, NY.
		Phil Silvers is the father of actresses Cathy Silvers and Candace Silvers, and his daughter Tracey is a film producer and writer.
		Phil Silvers had several Broadway successes "High Button Shoes" (1948), "Top Banana" (1951, for which he won a Tony award), "Do-Re-Mi" (1961), "How the Other Half Loves" (1970), and the revival of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (1971, and another Tony win).
	www.movieactors.com /actors/philsilvers.htm (232 words)

	Sgt. Bilko: The Phil Silvers Show 50th Anniversary Edition \| The A.V. Club
		Phil Silvers is one of those dead comedians who seems familiar, because his chuckly voice and pushy mannerisms continue to be imitated by comics, impressionists, and cartoon characters alike.
		Silvers played an army lifer alleviating the boredom between the wars by running elaborate scams and gambling pools.
		Bilko: The Phil Silvers Show 50th Anniversary Edition is a 20-episode, cross-season sampler, designed to satisfy fans and neophytes alike, and to highlight guest stars like Fred Gwynne, Dick Van Dyke, and Alan Alda, all early in their TV careers.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/48609 (347 words)

	Sgt Bilko: The Phil Silvers Show - DVD Reviews - Film - Entertainment
		Phil Silvers, Harvey Lembeck, Herbie Faye, Paul Ford
		One of TV's seminal comedies, this 1950s classic sitcom revolves around the talents of variety star Phil Silvers, who plays the title character: a hustling, devious army sergeant running a car pool in a Kansas barracks as his personal fiefdom.
		One stand-out DVD extra has the late Phil Hartman doing a quick succession of impressions that shows he could perform a one-man audio version of the show.
	www.smh.com.au /news/dvd-reviews/sgt-bilko-the-phil-silvers-show/2006/10/26/1161749220481.html (324 words)

	Phil Silvers Current Month TV Schedule
		Phil Silvers as a con man hooking Jed on a plan to de-smog L.A. Buddy Ebsen, Kathleen Freeman, Irene Ryan.
		Phil Silvers as a con man. Kathleen Freeman, Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan.
		Starring Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Phil Silvers, William Gaxton, Beatrice Kay, Margaret Dumont, Eddie Acuff, George Melford, Reed Hadley, Edward Gargan.
	www.tv-now.com /stars/psilvers.html (370 words)

	Phil Silvers
		In 2003 the Radio Times Guide to Comedy named The Phil Silvers Show the all-time best sitcom in the UK.
		Click here to read a letter from his daughter Laury who sets the record straight on an A&E "Biography" of his life.
		We ask anyone who knew Phil Silvers to e-mail their stories or photos to us for possible inclusion on this site.
	members.tripod.com /~compmast/silvers/silvers.html (136 words)

	Phil Silvers (1911 - 1985) - Find A Grave Memorial
		He is best remembered for his classic role of ‘Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko’, in the television series, "You'll Never Get Rich," later changed to "The Phil Silvers Show" (1954 to 1959).
		Born Philip Silversmith in New York City, he started in show business as a child actor in vaudeville, and by 1934, he was working in Minsky's Burlesque, where he trained in comic routines and perfected his timing.
		Eventually, he was brought to Hollywood, and in a classic Phil Silvers comedy routine, he relates that they didn't know what to do with him, so the Hollywood moguls have him test for a role of vicar in "Pride and Prejudice".
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1238 (404 words)

	Comedy Central: Movies - Phil Silvers - Biography
		The failure of his 1963 sitcom The New Phil Silvers Show marked a low point in his career, but the ever scrappy Silvers bounced back again to appear in films and TV specials.
		While convalescing, Silvers wrote his very candid autobiography, The Laugh Is on Me. He recovered to the extent that he could still perform, but his speech was slurred and his timing was gone.
		Phil Silvers was the father of actress Cathy Silvers, best known for her supporting work on the TV series Happy Days.
	www.comedycentral.com /movies/person/57930/bio.jhtml (496 words)

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		Silvers started entertaining at age 11, when he would sing in cinemas when the projector broke down (a common occurence in those days).
		Trivia: During filming, actor Phil Silvers locked himself in his trailer and refused to come out.
		Once Silvers heard he had been replaced, he came out of his trailer, bursting with new enthusiasm for the project.
	www.lycos.com /info/phil-silvers.html (325 words)

	Phil Silvers, Sgt. Bilko
		Silvers loved to talk over other actors, giving the dialogue a realistic charge.
		It's heartbreaking to see Silvers as a stroke victim, but he had some good stories to tell.
		There are clips of Silvers and his writers picking up Emmys that should interest anyone interested in TV stars of the 1950s.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002612862 (904 words)

	Sergeant Bilko - 50th Anniversary Edition (The Phil Silvers Show) \| PopMatters Television Review
		Phil Silver's Master-Sergeant Ernest "Ernie" T. Bilko was a comic creation on par with John Cleese's Basil Fawlty.
		Phil Silvers had been around for years before Bilko, in burlesque and vaudeville, on Broadway and in the movies.
		Phil Silvers saw further success both in the movies and TV, but nothing, not even The New Phil Silvers Show, a flawed attempt to recreate the Bilko magic in Civvy Street, could bring back the glory days.
	www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/s/sgt-bilko-50th-dvd.shtml (1453 words)

	Phil Silvers : Comedian Profile
		His best-known work is The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a US Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko; the show was also often referred to by this name.
		Silvers started entertaining at age 11, when he would sing in theaters when the projector broke down (a common occurrence in those days).
		Silvers was very ill in the last few years of his life, even though he continued work into the early 1980s in film and TV.
	www.comedy-zone.net /standup/comedian/s/silvers-phil.htm (652 words)

	PHIL SILVERS Autograph
		Silvers had previously been married to 1942 Miss America/actress Jo-Carroll Dennison from 1945-1950.
		In 1966, Silvers also appeared as brother owner Lycus in the film version of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
		A former vaudeville and burlesque performer, Silvers (1911-1985) starred in film comedies from the early 1940s, but his big successes came on TV and on stage.
	www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=265742 (338 words)

	Sgt Bilko: The Phil Silvers Show - DVD Reviews - Film - Entertainment
		One of TV's seminal comedies, this 1950s classic sitcom revolves around the talents of variety star Phil Silvers.
		One of TV's seminal comedies, this 1950s classic sitcom revolves around the talents of variety star Phil Silvers, who plays the title character: a hustling, devious army sergeant running a car pool in a Kansas barracks as his personal fiefdom.
		One stand-out DVD extra has the late Phil Hartman doing a quick succession of impressions that shows he could perform a one-man audio version of the show.
	www.theage.com.au /news/dvd-reviews/sgt-bilko-the-phil-silvers-show/2006/10/25/1161749180965.html (276 words)

	Phil Silvers, Sgt. Bilko
		Phil Silvers, left, toplined what often is called TV's first ensemble comedy.
		Silvers loved to talk over other actors, giving the dialogue a realistic charge.
		There are clips of Silvers and his writers picking up Emmys that should interest anyone interested in TV stars of the 1950s.
	www.bpiq.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002612862 (928 words)

	Phil Silvers Photos, Cast, Episodes for Phil Silvers \| TVGuide.com
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		- The Phil Silvers Show - Marked as one of the best in 50's and the all-time great sitcom, The Phil Silvers Show won three conse...
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	Amazon.com: Sgt. Bilko - 50th Anniversary Edition (The Phil Silvers Show): DVD: Joe E. Ross,Jimmy Little,Elisabeth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Phil Silvers plays Ernie Bilko, a motor pool sgt in the US army.
		Seeing how you rarely catch Phil Silvers on TV anymore, it's still important to have in the collection next to the Hogan's Heroes boxsets.
		In addition to the fine prints of these shows comes such special features are vintage commercials, Silvers' Emmy victories at the 1956 version of that TV award show and the obligatory talking heads from today.
	www.amazon.com /Sgt-Bilko-50th-Anniversary-Silvers/dp/B000EBGE9G (2096 words)

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