Park in Santa Monica, California, where Sales hosted and crowned the winner (Linda Henning, 15, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota) 1962 – Ensign O'Toole TV show, Season 1, Episode 5, "Operation Jinx", with Sales as Jinx Johnson 1963 – Sales played "Hank Salamanca", a musician guest at the farm, on The Real McCoys, episode 32 "The McCoy Sound". 1964 – "This is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You", Route 66, Episode 113 in the fourth and last season, fourth-to-last episode 1969 – The Beverly Hillbillies: Milburn Drysdale's nephew, Air Force ace Jet Bradford. 1982-1984 - Saturday Supercade - Sales provided the voice for the Nintendo character Donkey Kong, becoming the first actor to portray the character. 1989 – Monsters: Season 2 Episode 6, as "Traveling Salesman". 1994 – Wings: Season 6 Episode 8, "Miss Jenkins": Sales played a character named Fred Gardner, and performed "Simon Says" with Lowell. 2001 – Black Scorpion: super-villain Professor Prophet Personal life Sales was married twice: first to Barbara Fox, from 1950 until their divorce in 1979. They had two sons, both of whom are rock musicians: bassist Tony Sales and drummer Hunt Sales (who were in the band Tin Machine with David Bowie). In 1980, Sales married dancer Trudy Carson, who survives him. Sales died on October 22, 2009, at Calvary Hospice in Bronx, New York, aged 83, from cancer. He is buried at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. Reruns Janet Oseroff was Sales' manager in the last years of his life, and continues to represent his estate with Sales' wife Trudy. They license reruns of over 100 shows, including the entirety of The New Soupy Sales Show and the extant episodes from Sales' earlier black-and-white shows. Sales' shows have aired since 2011 on Jewish Life Television and since 2013 on Retro Television Network, the latter airing once a week. References Further reading Articles Fields, Sidney (May 4, 1965). "Only Human: Clown Prince of TV". New York Daily News. Books Kiska, Tim. From Soupy to Nuts!: A History of Detroit Television (Momentum Books, 2005); Shor, Francis. Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience: Manufacturing a Television Personality (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021); External links 1926 births 2009 deaths People from Franklinton, North Carolina Actors from Huntington, West Virginia Male actors from New York City Jewish American comedians Jewish American artists American male film actors United States Navy personnel of World War II