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Ernie Kovacs
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| Mostly Credited As: | Ernie Kovacs |
| Birth Name: | Ernest Edward Kovacs |
| Date Of Birth: | January 23, 1919 (Age 42) |
| Country Of Birth: |  USA |
| Birth Place: | Trenton, New Jersey |
| Date Of Death: | January 13, 1962 |
| Cause Of Death: | Car accident in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Edie Adams |
Sep/12/1954 - Jan/13/1962 |
(his death) (1 child) |
| Bette Lee Wilcox |
Aug/13/1945 - 1952 |
(divorced) (2 children) |
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Ernie was slated to portray the role ultimately filled by Milton Berle in Stanley Karmer's epic It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world opposite his wife Edie Adams, with Ethel Merman playing his loud, obnoxious mother-in-law. Despite Ernie's death in a single-car traffic accident across from the Beverly Hilton hotel on a rainy night in January 1962, Edie Adams carried on and played the role for which she'd been cast, despite Ernie's death.
| Ernie was a pioneer in the technical realm of the television medium. He was one of the first to use what are now considered common place special effects such as the chroma-key (blue screen or green screen) to create a background for a subject without the subject actually being in the depicted environment. This is how he could appear to be swimming in a large tank of water, yet still seem to blow visible smoke into the air from his trade-mark cigar.
He also did sketches with tilted sets that produced hilarious results such as pouring cream out of the pitcher of a coffee service, missing it's intended coffee cup by several inches, and running off the table, much to the perplexion of the character he was depicting.
| Was an avid cigar smoker sometimes smoking up to 20 stogies a day.
| In a bit of tragic irony, Kovacs' daughter, Mia Susan, was killed in an automobile accident in 1982 only a short distance away from the spot where her father lost his life in a fatal car crash 20 years earlier.
| Was an insomniac who rarely got more than three or four hours of sleep per night.
| Dilsliked performing in front of live audiences because he felt they distracted him.
| Got married in Mexico City to Edie Adams in 1956. Former New York City Mayor William O'Dwyer officiated at the ceremony.
| Was of the Roman Catholic religious faith.
| Friend Jack Lemmon identified his body at the morgue after wife Edie Adams became too hysterical to do so.
| Appeared in commercials for Dutch Masters cigars while wife Edie Adams was the spokesperson for Muriel cigars.
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