The Phil Silvers Show: Sgt. Bilko Presents
02:30 am - 03:00 am, Thursday, November 6 on WBBZ Catchy Comedy (67.7)
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Sgt. Bilko Presents
Season 3, Episode 7
A playwright-recruit gives Bilko ideas producing a Broadway show. Hugo: Gordon Polk. Big Poppa: Darryl Richard. Fender: Herbie Faye. Doberman: Maurice Gosfield. Rocco: Harvey Lembeck. Henshaw: Allan Melvin.
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1957
English
HD Level Unknown
Comedy
Sitcom
Cast & Crew
Harvey Lembeck
(Actor)
.. Cpl. Rocco Barbella
Herbie Faye
(Actor)
.. Cpl. Sam Fender
Maurice Gosfield
(Actor)
.. Pvt. Duane Doberman
Allan Melvin
(Actor)
.. Cpl. Henshaw
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Did You Know..
Harvey Lembeck
(Actor)
.. Cpl. Rocco Barbella
Born:
April 15, 1923
Died: January 05, 1982
Died: January 05, 1982
Trivia:
Brooklyn-born Harvey Lembeck was a nightclub and Broadway comedian at the time of his 1951 film bow in You're in the Navy Now. The roly-poly, nasal-voiced Lembeck was most often cast as the wise-guy comedy relief in war films, most notably Stalag 17 (1953), in which Lembeck and bearlike Robert Strauss repeated their stage roles as "court jesters" in a dismal POW camp (the two actors would later be reteamed in the 1961 Jack Webb picture The Last Time I Saw Archie, not to mention a series of TV commercials in the mid-1960s). Harvey remained in uniform for a four-year hitch as Corporal Barbella on the popular 1950s Phil Silvers sitcom You'll Never Get Rich. In 1963's Beach Party, Lembeck made the first of several sidesplitting appearances as leather-jacketed Brando wannabe Eric von Zipper, whose attempts to prove his toughness to his fellow bikers always came a-cropper; in Beach Blanket Bingo, for example, he was cut in twain by a buzzsaw, moaning "Why Me?" even as his two halves fell bloodlessly to the floor. During the 1970s and early 1980s, Harvey Lembeck directed several TV sitcom episodes, and also operated a training school for aspiring comedians; carrying on the "family business" after Harvey's death was his son, actor/director Michael Lembeck.
Herbie Faye
(Actor)
.. Cpl. Sam Fender
Born:
January 01, 1898
Died: January 01, 1980
Died: January 01, 1980
Maurice Gosfield
(Actor)
.. Pvt. Duane Doberman
Born:
January 01, 1912
Died: January 01, 1964
Died: January 01, 1964
Allan Melvin
(Actor)
.. Cpl. Henshaw
Born:
January 17, 2008
Died: January 17, 2008
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Died: January 17, 2008
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Trivia:
American comic character actor Allan Melvin worked on stage, radio, screen, and television, where he is best remembered for playing Sam the Butcher, the love interest of beloved housekeeper Alice on The Brady Bunch. He also appeared as Sergeant Bilko's right-hand man The Phil Silvers Show, and as Archie Bunker's best friend on All in the Family). Melvin also worked in commercials and voiced many animated cartoons. He died of cancer in January 2008 at age 84.
