Bernard Fox

Bernard Fox
Born	Bernard Lawson 11 May 1927 (1927-05-11) (age 82) Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Occupation	Film, television actor
Years active	1955–2004
Spouse(s)	Jacqueline Fox (1961-present)

Bernard Fox (born 11 May 1927) is a British film and television actor.

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. His uncle was veteran film and stage actor Wilfrid Lawson. ^[5]

Career

His 30 film credits from 1956 to 2004 include two movies revolving around the sinking of RMS Titanic, separated by 39 years. Fox was in both Titanic (1997) (as Colonel Archibald Gracie) and the earlier version of the tragedy A Night to Remember (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. His last part was that of Winston Havelock, a retired Air Force pilot in the 1999 adventure film The Mummy.

In television, his best-known role was as the warlock physician Dr. Bombay on Bewitched. He repeated the role on the 1977 sequel Tabitha, and again in 1999 on the soap opera Passions, and spoofed it as a genie doctor ("wish doctor") in a 1989 episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse. He appeared in two episodes in the mystery series Columbo, starring Peter Falk as the rumpled detective. As of 2009^[update], Fox is the last surviving adult recurring cast member of Bewitched.

References

Mr. Fox also had repeat appearances on the television series Hogan's Heroes as the bumbling Colonel Crittenden and as English valet Malcom Meriweather on the Andy Griffith show.

External links

• Bernard Fox at the Internet Movie Database
• Bernard Fox at Allmovie
• Bernard Fox at the TCM Movie Database