Sylvia Miles

As a revue comedy performer, she made her first TV appearance on a Bob Hope NBC show in 1950.

Portrayed Sally Rogers in the Carl Reiner television pilot "Head of the Family" (1959), which eventually became the basis for "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961).

Infamous for dumping a plate of pasta on the head of dyspeptic theater critic John Simon of New York magazine in The Ginger Man, a New York City restaurant, after he gave her a nasty, scathing review in a 1973 play.