New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ACTOR

Milton Berle

1908 - 2002

Photo of Milton Berle

Icon of person Milton Berle

Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; Yiddish: ‏מענדעל בערלינגער; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American actor and comedian. His career as an entertainer spanned over eight decades, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theatre (1948–1953), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Milton Berle has received more than 4,097,664 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Milton Berle is the 3,888th most popular actor (down from 2,850th in 2019), the 5,907th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,617th in 2019) and the 1,825th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Milton Berles by language


Among ACTORS

Among actors, Milton Berle ranks 3,888 out of 9,996Before him are Kenneth Welsh, Candy Clark, Verne Troyer, Michael Wilding, Betty Hutton, and Nikolai Kryuchkov. After him are Michael Gwisdek, Ruby Rose, Neda Arnerić, Jeri Ryan, Robert Preston, and Laverne Cox.

Most Popular Actors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Milton Berle ranks 239Before him are Birgit Cullberg, Eugen Suchoň, Karl Hohmann, Władysław Raginis, Nikolai Kamanin, and Erik Lundqvist. After him are Tommaso Landolfi, Jack Gilford, Arturo de Córdova, Ludwig Goldbrunner, Mohammad Natsir, and Viacheslav Ragozin. Among people deceased in 2002, Milton Berle ranks 189Before him are Raymond Firth, Mario de las Casas, Ruth Williams Khama, Masakatsu Miyamoto, Peter R. Hunt, and Frances Ames. After him are Zaid ibn Shaker, Raoul Diagne, Arne Selmosson, Chaim Potok, Tore Svensson, and Alexandru Todea.

Others Born in 1908

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 2002

Go to all Rankings

In United States

Among people born in United States, Milton Berle ranks 5,907 out of 18,182Before him are Verne Troyer (1969), James Lee Burke (1936), Betty Hutton (1921), Jacob Epstein (1880), Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926), and Christy Turlington (1969). After him are William Christian Bullitt Jr. (1891), Robert Preston (1918), Cesar Chavez (1927), Hunter Biden (1970), Elizabeth Gilbert (1969), and Kurt Angle (1968).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Milton Berle ranks 1,825Before him are Grace Park (1974), Mariel Hemingway (1961), Ed Wynn (1886), Candy Clark (1947), Verne Troyer (1969), and Betty Hutton (1921). After him are Robert Preston (1918), Laverne Cox (1984), Jeff Conaway (1950), Frankie Avalon (1940), R. G. Armstrong (1917), and Gerald McRaney (1947).

Television and Movie Roles