Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 - November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. 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. The show's chief writer, Nat Hiken, was TV's first writer-producer, and Hiken helped set a high comic tone for the show through his inventive plots and snappy comedic repartee for the characters. Wikipedia
Interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA. He wrote the lyrics to the Jimmy Van Heusen song "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" for friend Frank Sinatra's firstborn child Nancy Sinatra. His Gladasya production company co-produced "G www.imdb.com/name/nm0799014/
On September 20th 1955, CBS Television broadcast the first episode of one of the all-time- greatest comedies ever "The Phil Silvers show" - This is my tribute to the funniest American comedy ever made. www.philsilversshow.homestead.com/
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