Phil Silvers
Birthday: 1911-05-11
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Biography: Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show.
Movies
A Guide for the Married Man
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught....
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Cover Girl
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind....
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $...
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The Strongest Man in the World
Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin co...
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Follow That Camel
Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign L...
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Take Me Up to the Ball Game
In this interplanetary baseball story, a group of friends are playing a sandlot game on Earth that i...
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Lucky Me
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy ...
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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
After the end of WWII, an Italian woman receives child support payments from three former US soldier...
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The Cheap Detective
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accu...
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The Boatniks
Young and awkward, The Coast-Guard's ensign Thomas Garland suffers from the comparison with his late...
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a stu...
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All Through the Night
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship....
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Summer Stock
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's siste...
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Footlight Serenade
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy ...
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A Lady Takes a Chance
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her ci...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom....
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That's Carry On!
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Will...
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Coney Island
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at f...
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Showbiz Goes to War
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War ...
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A Thousand and One Nights
On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, w...
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Top Banana
Jerry Biffle is the star of the Blendo Soap Program. He has been invited to participate in an autogr...
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Roxie Hart
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audienc...
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The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film vers...
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Tom, Dick and Harry
Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, ...
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Just Off Broadway
Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murd...
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Diamond Horseshoe
Joe Davis Sr., headliner at a big nightclub, is visited by medical student son Joe Jr., who to Dad's...
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My Gal Sal
Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job...
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Keep in Step
An hour of music and comedy sketches hosted by Phil Silvers. Sponsored by Pontiac automobiles....
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The New Love Boat
Guest stars include Georgia Engel as a stowaway, Gary Frank and Melanie Mayron as a pair of tremulou...
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If I'm Lucky
Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertain...
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The Chicken Chronicles
A late-1960s teen (Steve Guttenberg) working in a chicken-takeout stand cannot get his mind off his ...
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The Wild Man of Borneo
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor....
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Something for the Boys
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who ge...
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Don Juan Quilligan
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he find...
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Ups and Downs
An elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl's fiancee and attempt to win over he...
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The Slowest Gun in the West
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A....
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40 Pounds of Trouble
Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little ...
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The Girl Can't Help It
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star withi...
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Racquet
Centred around a former tennis champ who swings with the girls and volleying straight sets with the ...
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The Penalty
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his...
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Four Jills in a Jeep
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas....
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Hit Parade of 1941
In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and ...
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Goldie and the Boxer
Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship w...
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There Goes The Bride
A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream...
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Judy Garland, Robert Goulet & Phil Silvers Special
This very special television event that aired February 1963 helped launch the famed Judy Garland Sho...
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You're in the Army Now
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge....
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Success
Elmer proposes to Molly, but she says he needs her fathers permission. He wants Elmer to become a ba...
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Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he forme...
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Tales of Manhattan
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by it...
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Joys
Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of...
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General Foods Opening Night
Fearing they'll all be fired after hearing Phil Silvers is getting his own show on the General Foods...
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Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World....
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Take It or Leave It
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant...
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Marilyn
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in...
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Ice-Capades
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arr...
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Salute to Stan Laurel
A program featuring original comedy skits written as a tribute to Stan Laurel....
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That's Dancing!
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie ca...
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift thos...
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Damn Yankees
Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New Yor...
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The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also ki...
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Something's Got to Give
Remake of "My Favorite Wife," unfinished because of star Marilyn Monroe's firing, rehiring, and sudd...
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What's a Carry On?
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips a...
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Hey Abbott (1978)
Take a golden trip down memory lane with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and their classic zany, rapid-f...
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On Location: The Carry Ons
June Whitfield takes a look at some of the locations used during the making of the legendary 'Carry ...
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film compa...
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