Bernard Fox (actor)
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Fox in Hogan's Heroes (1968)
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| Born |
Bernard Lawson 11 May 1927 Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales |
| Died | 14 December 2016 (aged 89) Van Nuys, California, United States |
| Cause of death | Heart failure |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1955–2004 |
| Spouse(s) | Jacqueline Fox (m. 1962; his death 2016) |
| Children | 2 |
| Family | Wilfrid Lawson (uncle) |
Bernard Lawson (11 May 1927 – 14 December 2016), better known as Bernard Fox, was a Welsh actor. He is best remembered for his roles as Dr. Bombay in the comedy fantasy series Bewitched (1964–1972), Colonel Crittendon in the comedy series Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971), Malcolm Merriweather in the Andy Griffith Show (1963-1965), Colonel Redford in Barnaby Jones (1975), Max in Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo (1977), Archibald Gracie IV in the epic romance-disaster film Titanic (1997), and Captain Winston Havlock in the action-adventure fantasy horror film The Mummy (1999).
Fox was a fifth-generation performer. He was born in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, the son of Queenie (née Barrett) and Gerald Lawson, both stage actors. He had an older sister, Mavis, and his uncle was actor Wilfrid Lawson.
Fox began his film career at the age of 18 months, and by the age of 14 he was an apprentice assistant manager of a theatre. After serving with the Royal Navy in World War 2 he resumed his acting career and appeared in over 30 cinema films from 1956 to 2004, include both cinematic dramatizations of the sinking of the great passenger liner the RMS Titanic, separated by 39 years, viz, Titanic (1997) (as Colonel Archibald Gracie IV) and the earlier version of the tragedy A Night to Remember (1958) (uncredited as Frederick Fleet). In the latter, he delivered the line "Iceberg dead ahead, sir!" while playing the part of the sailor in the ship's crow's nest. His other screen roles ranged from supporting parts in broad comedies (Yellowbeard, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, and The Private Eyes, playing a homicidal butler in the last) to supplying the voice of the Chairmouse in the Disney animated features The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. He played the role of Winston Havelock, a put out to grass former Royal Flying Corps airman in the 1999 adventure film The Mummy. In 2004, Fox made his final appearance before retirement in Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes.
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