Bernard Fox (actor)

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name = Bernard Fox


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birthname = Bernard Lawson
birthdate = Birth date and age|1927|5|11|df=y
birthplace = Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
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occupation = actor
yearsactive = ytv|1955–fy|2004
spouse = Jacqueline "(married 1961)"
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Bernard Fox (born 11 May, fy|1927) is a Welsh-born British film and television actor.

Personal life

Fox, a "fifth generation performer", [ [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800108189/bio Bernard Fox Biography - Yahoo! Movies ] ] was born Bernard Lawson in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of Queenie (née Barrett) and Gerald Lawson, both of whom were stage actors. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/86/Bernard-Fox.html Bernard Fox Biography (1927-) ] ] [ [http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Bernard_Fox/1284807 Bernard Fox at Hollywood.com ] ] [ [http://www.bewitched.net/bernbck.htm Bernard Fox Makes Fans Merry! ] ] He had an older sister, Mavis, and has been married to his wife Jacqueline since 1961. His uncle was veteran comic actor Wilfred Lawson. [Erickson, Hal [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:24538~T0 Biography (Allmovie)] ]

Career

His 30 film credits from fy|1956 to fy|2004 include two movies revolving around the sinking of RMS "Titanic", separated by 39 years. Fox was in both "Titanic" (fy|1997) (as Col. Archibald Gracie) and the earlier version of the tragedy "A Night to Remember" (fy|1958) (uncredited as Fredrick Fleet.) In the latter, he delivered the 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". Recently, he played the part of Winston the pilot in the fy|1999 film The Mummy.

In television, his best-known role was as the warlock physician (as opposed to a "witch doctor") Dr. Bombay on "Bewitched". He repeated the role on the sequel "Tabitha", and again on the soap opera "Passions", and spoofed it as a genie doctor ("wish doctor") in an episode of "Pee-wee's Playhouse".

Fox also had a recurring guest role as the hapless British Colonel Rodney Crittendon on "Hogan's Heroes", who often clashed with Col. 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. In situation comedies such as "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "F Troop", Fox generally plays a supposedly typical Englishman who is both boastful and stupid, but he also appeared as an assassin in an episode of "Murder, She Wrote".

In Britain, people sometimes confuse him with the brothers James Fox and Edward Fox, to whom he is not related.

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