Milton Kaiman (March 5, 1921 – February 24, 1977), better known as Milt Kamen, was an American stand-up comic and actor with numerous television credits.
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 Funny You Should Ask (1968), 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.
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.
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,” [2] and in “The Passion of Josef D.” the 1964 Paddy Chayefsky play, in which he played opposite Luther Adler and Peter Falk.
[3] Before beginning his comedy career, Kamen was a Juilliard-trained French Horn player, occupying chair in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.