Phil Silvers (1911–1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show.
Phil Silvers Biography / Wiki
| Name | Phil Silvers |
| Also Know | Sergeant Bilko |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Date of Birth | 1911-05-11 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 74 |
| Deathday | 1985-11-01 |
Phil Silvers Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Follow That Camel | Sergeant Nocker | 1967-08-10 | Bertram Oliphant West (also known as Bo West) wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation. He joins the Foreign Legion, with Simpson his manservant… |
| Top Banana | Jerry Biffle | 1954-02-22 | Jerry Biffle is the star of the Blendo Soap Program. He has been invited to participate in an autograph-signing party for his new book at an important… |
| The Chicken Chronicles | Max Ober | 1977-10-01 | A late-1960s teen (Steve Guttenberg) working in a chicken-takeout stand cannot get his mind off his dream-girl (Lisa Reeves)…. |
| The Slowest Gun in the West | Fletcher Bissell III, The Silver Dollar Kid | 1960-05-07 | The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. … |
| Damn Yankees | Mr. Applegate | 1967-04-08 | Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate… |
| A Thousand and One Nights | Abdullah | 1945-07-20 | On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan’s daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it … |
| Don Juan Quilligan | ‘Mac’ MacDenny | 1945-06-01 | When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them…. |
| The Candid Kid | 1938-02-12 | Short comedy/musical film featuring Josephine Huston and Phil Silvers…. | |
| There Goes The Bride | Psychiatrist | 1980-07-07 | A nervous ad executive (Tom Smothers) creates havoc on his daughter’s wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl (Twiggy) he keeps seeing ever… |
| You’re in the Army Now | Brewster “Breezy” Jones | 1941-12-25 | Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge…. |
| Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell | Phil Newman | 1968-10-23 | After the end of WWII, an Italian woman receives child support payments from three former US soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of h… |
| Lucky Me | Hap Schneider | 1954-04-09 | Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promi… |
| The Boatniks | Harry Simmons | 1970-07-01 | Young and awkward, The Coast-Guard’s ensign Thomas Garland suffers from the comparison with his late father, a war hero. Which does not prevent him fr… |
| A Lady Takes a Chance | Smiley Lambert | 1943-08-19 | A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors…. |
| A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Marcus Lycus | 1966-10-16 | A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom…. |
| Just Off Broadway | Roy Higgins | 1942-08-28 | Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he’s stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out o… |
| Diamond Horseshoe | Blinkie Miller | 1945-05-02 | Joe Davis Sr., headliner at a big nightclub, is visited by medical student son Joe Jr., who to Dad’s chagrin wants to be a crooner, and soon comes bet… |
| Judy Garland, Robert Goulet & Phil Silvers Special | 1963-03-19 | This very special television event that aired February 1963 helped launch the famed Judy Garland Show which captivated TV audiences throughout 1963 an… | |
| Racquet | Arthur Sargent | 1979-12-30 | Centred around a former tennis champ who swings with the girls and volleying straight sets with the rich and famous while set on owning his own tennis… |
| 40 Pounds of Trouble | Bernie Friedman | 1962-12-31 | Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl…. |
| Success | Antic Fellow | 1931-06-30 | Elmer proposes to Molly, but she says he needs her fathers permission. He wants Elmer to become a ballplayer, but his eyesight keeps getting him into … |
| Cover Girl | Genius | 1944-03-22 | A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind…. |
| Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood | Murray Fromberg | 1976-07-26 | A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s…. |
| Coney Island | Frankie | 1943-06-18 | Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco’s Coney Island night spo… |
| Something for the Boys | Harry Hart | 1944-11-01 | The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern pla… |
| General Foods Opening Night | 1963-09-22 | Fearing they’ll all be fired after hearing Phil Silvers is getting his own show on the General Foods line up, the actors and actress band together to … | |
| The Strongest Man in the World | Krinkle | 1975-02-06 | Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged … |
| The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood | William B. Warkoff | 1980-06-04 | Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film version of her memoirs…. |
| If I’m Lucky | Wallingham M. ‘Wally’ Jones | 1946-09-02 | Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertaining prospective voters at rallies. The candidate i… |
| Ups and Downs | Charlie | 1937-10-09 | An elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl’s fiancee and attempt to win over her father…. |
| Summer Stock | Herb Blake | 1950-08-31 | To Jane Falbury’s New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane’s sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores … |
| Footlight Serenade | Slap | 1942-08-01 | Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts pay… |
| Roxie Hart | Babe | 1942-02-20 | A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was j… |
| My Gal Sal | Wiley | 1942-04-30 | Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New Yor… |
| Four Jills in a Jeep | Eddie | 1944-03-17 | Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas…. |
| Something’s Got to Give | Versicherungsvertreter | 1962-01-01 | Unfinished remake of “My Favorite Wife”, due to the firing of Marilyn Monroe from the film. She was eventually re-hired, but died in August, 1962. Fil… |
| Hit Parade of 1941 | Charlie Moore | 1940-10-14 | In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking… |
| Ice-Capades | Larry Herman | 1941-08-19 | Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating … |
| It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Otto Meyer | 1963-11-07 | A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is t… |
| Tom, Dick and Harry | Ice Cream Man | 1941-06-13 | Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. … |
| The Night They Took Miss Beautiful | Marv Barker | 1977-10-24 | Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they’ve also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous vi… |
| All Through the Night | Waiter | 1942-01-10 | Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship…. |
| The Penalty | Hobo | 1941-03-13 | In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster’s son is soon following in his father’s footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy see… |
| The New Love Boat | Morris Beckman | 1977-05-05 | Guest stars include Georgia Engel as a stowaway, Gary Frank and Melanie Mayron as a pair of tremulous honeymooners, Stella Stevens and Pat Harrington … |
| Lady Be Good | Master of Ceremonies | 1941-09-18 | Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show…. |
| The Wild Man of Borneo | Murdock, Side Show Barker | 1941-01-24 | A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he’s a legitimate stage actor…. |
| The Cheap Detective | Hoppy | 1978-06-23 | A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of… |
| Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to ‘It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World’ | (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 | A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World…. |
| Salute to Stan Laurel | Himself | 1965-11-23 | A program featuring original comedy skits written as a tribute to Stan Laurel…. |
| The Girl Can’t Help It | Milkman | 1956-12-01 | A down-and-out gangster hires an alcoholic press agent to make his blonde bombshell girlfriend a recording star in 6 weeks. But what is he going to do… |
| Marilyn | 1963-04-18 | This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe’s death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films,… | |
| A Guide for the Married Man | Technical Advisor (Realtor) | 1967-01-01 | A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one’s wife without being caught…. |
| Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer | Himself (archive footage) | 2002-09-24 | American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first “blue collar dancer”) and develop… |
| Take It or Leave It | Himself | 1944-07-17 | A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife’s doctor…. |
| Tales of Manhattan | First Salesman at Santelli’s (uncredited) | 1942-08-05 | Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video relea… |
| The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage) | 1997-11-01 | A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let’s lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one ti… |
| Joys | 1976-03-05 | Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope’s house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies t… | |
| Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self (archive footage) | 1987-11-01 | Her story is well-known – the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood’s greatest love goddes… |
| Showbiz Goes to War | Archive Footage | 1982-12-31 | While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the A… |
| That’s Dancing! | 1985-01-01 | A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it’s orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30… | |
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