Bernard Fox (actor)
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| Born | Bernard Lawson 11 May 1927 Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom |
Bernard Fox (born 11 May 1927) is a Welsh-born British film and television actor.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Fox, a "fifth generation performer",[1] was born Bernard Lawson in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of Queenie (née Barrett) and Gerald Lawson, both of whom were stage actors.[2][3][4] He had an older sister, Mavis, and has been married to his wife Jacqueline since 1961.
[edit] Career
His 33 film credits over 43 years (through 1999) include two movies revolving around the sinking of RMS Titanic, separated by 39 years. Fox was in both Titanic (1997) (as Col. Archibald Gracie) and the earlier version of the tragedy A Night to Remember (1958) (uncredited as Fredrick Fleet.) In the latter, he delivered the immortal line, "Iceberg dead ahead, sir!" Other film roles ranged from supporting parts in broad comedies (Yellowbeard, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, and The Private Eyes, playing a homicidal butler in the latter) to supplying the voice of the chairmouse in the Disney animated features The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. He also appeared as an assassin in an episode of Murder, She Wrote.
In television, Fox had a recurring guest role as the hapless British Colonel Rodney Crittendon in Hogan's Heroes, who often clashed with Hogan. He made three guest appearances on The Andy Griffith Show as Malcolm Merriweather, a visiting valet, and also guest starred in an episode of M*A*S*H as a British officer who is tough on his wounded men in post-op.
His best-known role was as the warlock physician (a more official-sounding reworking of the phrase witch doctor) Dr. Bombay on Bewitched. He repeated the role on the sequel Tabitha, and again on the soap opera Passions. He spoofed the role as a genie doctor ("wish doctor") in an episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse. With the death of Alice Ghostley in 2007, Fox is the only surviving adult cast member of Bewitched.
In Britain, on mention of Fox's name, people sometimes confuse him with the brothers James Fox and Edward Fox, to whom he is no relation. In comedy shows like Hogan's Heroes and F Troop, Fox plays a supposed typical Englishman who is both boastful and stupid.
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