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Interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA. His Gladasya production company co-produced "Gilligan's Island" (1964). Enjoyed a long string of Broadway successes, most notably "High Button Shoes" (1948), "Top Banana" (1951, for which he won a Tony award), "Do-Re-Mi" (1961), "How the Other Half Loves" (1970), and the revival of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (1971, and another Tony win). Daughter Tracey Silvers is a film producer and writer. Father-in-law of writer/director/composer Iren Koster. Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 740-741. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. Suffered a stroke in 1972. Appears as Master Sergeant Ernest G. (Ernie) Bilko on a 44¢ USA commemorative postage stamp, issued 11 August 2009, in the Early TV Memories issue honoring "The Phil Silvers Show" (1955).