Milton Kaiman (March 5, 1921 â€" February 24, 1977), better known as
Milt Kamen, was an American stand-up comic and actor with numerous
television credits. As a stand-up comic, Kamen was a favorite of Mel
Brooks, Groucho Marx and Woody Allen. According to writer Kliph
Nesteroff, Kamen worked as a stand-in for Sid Caesar on Caesar's Hour,
inventing bits of business that Caesar claimed for his own.Born in
Hurleyville, New York, his family moved to the Brownsville
neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY when he was two years old. Kamen began
his comedy career as a regular on Caesar's Hour in 1954. He frequently
performed his comedy routines on shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Steve
Allen, Perry Como, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and Johnny Carson and
made guest appearances on What's My Line?, The Match Game,
Tattletales, Pantomime Quiz, The Gong Show, Personality, Password,
Missing Links, You're Putting Me On, To Tell the Truth, The $10,000
Pyramid and The Hollywood Palace. While performing at a resort in the
Catskills, Kamen discovered Woody Allen.As an actor, Kamen appeared in
Route 66, Naked City, Ben Casey, McMillan & Wife, Love, American
Style, The Partridge Family, Mannix, The Streets of San Francisco, and
Quincy M.E., among others. His feature film credits include Me,
Natalie, The Out-of-Towners, Mother, Jugs & Speed and W.C. Fields and
Me.Kamen's Broadway theatre credits were as a garrulous waiter in an
Off Broadway production of William Saroyan's “Across the Board on
Tomorrow Morning;†“A Thurber Carnival,†Murray Schisgal's
“The Typist and The Tiger,†and in “The Passion of Josef D.â€
the 1964 Paddy Chayefsky play, in which he played opposite Luther
Adler and Peter Falk. It closed after one preview and 16 performances.
Milt Kamen, was an American stand-up comic and actor with numerous
television credits. As a stand-up comic, Kamen was a favorite of Mel
Brooks, Groucho Marx and Woody Allen. According to writer Kliph
Nesteroff, Kamen worked as a stand-in for Sid Caesar on Caesar's Hour,
inventing bits of business that Caesar claimed for his own.Born in
Hurleyville, New York, his family moved to the Brownsville
neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY when he was two years old. Kamen began
his comedy career as a regular on Caesar's Hour in 1954. He frequently
performed his comedy routines on shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Steve
Allen, Perry Como, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and Johnny Carson and
made guest appearances on What's My Line?, The Match Game,
Tattletales, Pantomime Quiz, The Gong Show, Personality, Password,
Missing Links, You're Putting Me On, To Tell the Truth, The $10,000
Pyramid and The Hollywood Palace. While performing at a resort in the
Catskills, Kamen discovered Woody Allen.As an actor, Kamen appeared in
Route 66, Naked City, Ben Casey, McMillan & Wife, Love, American
Style, The Partridge Family, Mannix, The Streets of San Francisco, and
Quincy M.E., among others. His feature film credits include Me,
Natalie, The Out-of-Towners, Mother, Jugs & Speed and W.C. Fields and
Me.Kamen's Broadway theatre credits were as a garrulous waiter in an
Off Broadway production of William Saroyan's “Across the Board on
Tomorrow Morning;†“A Thurber Carnival,†Murray Schisgal's
“The Typist and The Tiger,†and in “The Passion of Josef D.â€
the 1964 Paddy Chayefsky play, in which he played opposite Luther
Adler and Peter Falk. It closed after one preview and 16 performances.
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