BERNARD FOX: AMAZING ACTOR AND COMEDIAN

HOGAN'S HEROES:COLONEL CRITTENDEN

BEWITCHED: DR BOMBAY

ANDY GRIFFITH: MALCOLM MERRIWEATHER

DICK VAN DYKE: OGDEN DARWELL

F TROOP: MAJOR BENTLEY ROSS

TITANIC: ARCHIBALD GRACIE

One of my favorite character actors of all time is Bernard Fox. He played in all the big shows on television in the early days and continued acting until 1999. He steals every scene he is in....

We loved him as Dr. Bombay in Bewitched, Colonel Crittenden in Hogan's Heroes, and Malcom Merriweather on Andy Griffith.

Bernard has a very long resume of parts he has played....here are some of the TV shows and films he was in.

READ HIS FULL BIOGRAPHY HERE

BERNARD FOX OUR FAVORITE EPISODES

• The Andy Griffith Show
• I Dream of Jeannie, season 1, "episode 18"
• The Monkees, episode 55 "Monkees Mind Their Manor"
• Bewitched
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E
• The Dick Van Dyke Show
• M*A*S*H
• F-Troop (Major Bentley Ross)
• Hogan's Heroes Colonel Crittenden
• Columbo: Dagger of the Mind
• Columbo: Troubled Waters
• Sherlock & Me

HOGAN'S HEROES FIRST HELGA CYNTHIA LYNN HAS DIED AT 76

 

Cynthia Lynn, who played Colonel Klink’s secretary Fraulein Helga on “Hogan’s Heroes” during the first season, died Monday in Los Angeles. She was 76 and had been suffering from hepatitis. She was among the last surviving cast members of the 1960s military comedy.

Born Zinta Valda Zimilis, in Riga, Latvia, she last acted in 1975 in an episode of “Harry O.”

She also appeared in “Gidget Grows Up,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Odd Couple,” “Love American Style” and “The Six Million Dollar Man.”

UPDATEFROM HER DAUGHTER LISA BRANDO: We just set up a way for friends and fans to be able to donate to help raise funds for my mothers memorial service. Thank you all so very, very much for all your love and support during the most difficult time in my life. I don't know how I will get thru this but I can truly feel the outpouring of my friends love for me and the love of my mothers fans. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Lisa XOXO

HAPPY 88TH BIRTHDAY ROBERT CLARY!

Many viewers didn't know that Robert Clary who played a POW in a Nazi prison camp on Hogan's Heroes, was in real life a survivor of Buchenwald.

Robert Clary (born Robert Max Widerman; March 1, 1926) is a French-born American actor, published author, and lecturer. He is best known for his role in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes as Corporal Louis LeBeau ("Frenchie"), and is the only surviving male original cast member.

Born in 1926 in Paris, France, Clary was the youngest of 14 children. At the age of twelve, he began a career singing professionally on French radio and also studied art at the Paris Drawing School. In 1942, because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Ottmuth. He was later sent to Buchenwald, where he was liberated on April 11, 1945. Twelve other members of his immediate family were sent to Auschwitz.

In this Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, photo, actor, artist and singer Robert Clary stands near some of his paintings at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. Clary, who starred in the sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” turns 88 on Saturday, March 1, 2014.

"Every day I wake up is a birthday," said Clary, who as a Jewish French teenager survived the Nazi Holocaust that claimed 12 family members, including his parents.