Cast & creator
Herschel Bernardi
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, The Merv Griffin Show
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Herschel Bernardi (30 October 1923, New York City – 9 May 1986, Los Angeles, California) was an American film, Broadway, and television actor. He is best known for his starring roles on Broadway including Fiddler on the Roof (as Tevye), Zorba, and Bajour, but he also acted in many television shows, including Harbor Command and The Eleventh Hour (both with Wendell Corey), as well as State Trooper, Peter Gunn. He was the lead in the CBS sitcom Arnie. Bernardi wrote at least one script for Peter Gunn. In Arnie, he starred for two years as someone plucked from the loading dock of a flange company to become an executive. Originally, the character was to receive a $25,000 annual salary, which was very good in those days. But, national economic woes caused producers to substitute the figure of $20,000 per year before airing. Born into the Yiddish theatre, Bernardi was appearing on the stages of 2nd Avenue with his acting family before he could talk. In the 1930s, Bernardi appeared in the Yiddish films of Edgar G. Ulmer and was later among those actors who made the transition from Yiddish-speaking roles in film to American films. Bernardi was also in several notable films, including Irma La Douce, Love with the Proper Stranger and the 1976 film The Front, a film about blacklisting in the entertainment industry. Bernardi was the victim of blacklisting during the 1950s, as were several other performers and the screenwriter and director on that film. Bernardi was a noted voiceover artist and narrator with hundreds of films, commercials and cartoons to his credit and was the original voice of StarKist Tuna animated character, "Charlie the Tuna". Herschel Bernardi also had two minor record hits, 1967's "If I Were A Rich Man", reflecting his success as Tevye, and 1971's "Pencil Marks On The Wall". Description above from the Wikipedia article Herschel Bernardi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Hershel Bernardi
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1938–1986 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (86)
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Bonanza
Clarence Bolling
1959
Murder, She Wrote
Avery Mendelsohn
1984
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
The Fugitive
Captain Ames
1963
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
The Flintstones
Silky (uncredited) (voice)
1960The Flintstones
Doctor #1 (voice)
1960The Flintstones
Detective (voice)
1960The Flintstones
Agent (voice)
1960
Matinee Theater
1955
The Red Skelton Show
Muggsy
1951
Dr. Kildare
Pico
1961Dr. Kildare
Nathan Agurski
1961Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
McCarthy
1963
Naked City
Stanley Dorkner
1958Naked City
Gus Slate
1958
Highway to Heaven
1984
The Untouchables
Benno Fisk
1959The Untouchables
Julius Albert Vernon
1959
Route 66
1960Route 66
Gerald Ward
1960
Burke's Law
Kid McCoy
1963
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Peter Gunn
Lieutenant Jacoby
1958
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
1968
The Detectives
1959
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Joe Monti
1963
Studio 57
1954
Kraft Music Hall
1958State Trooper
Jake Carney
1956
Checkmate
Ned Hazly
1960
Mr. Novak
Mr. Otis
1963
Honey West
1965
Sam Benedict
Insp. Tony Delgano
1962
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Joe Sale
1958
Cain's Hundred
Louis Strode
1961Vacation Playhouse
Jerome P. Baggley
1963Profiles in Courage
Gen. Daniel Sickles
1964
The Walter Winchell File
1957$weepstake$
Meyer Bolinski
1979
Harbor Command
1957
Arnie
1970
Good Heavens
1976
Grindl
1963
Hail to the Chief
Helmut Luger
1985
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Eddie
1951
Irma la Douce
Inspector Lefevre
1963
Send Me No Flowers
TV Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
1964
The Front
Philip Sussman
1976
Love with the Proper Stranger
Dominick Rossini
1963
The Art of Being Nick
Nick's Grandfather
No Deposit, No Return
Sgt. Max Turner
1976
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Self
1982
Journey Back to Oz
Woodenhead Pinto Stallion III (voice)
1972
No Place to Run
Hyam Malsh
1972
Sandcastles
Alexis
1972
The Honey Pot
Oscar Ludwig (uncredited) (scenes deleted)
1967
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
Laban
1974
Hangman
Narrator (voice)
1964
The George Raft Story
Sam
1961
The Million Dollar Face
Nick Ravenna
1981
Murder by Contract
George
1958
I-Man
Bogosian
1986
The Man from Button Willow
The Captain / Saloon Man#1 (voice)
1965
Actor
Nahum Favel Weissenfreund
1978
Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
1974
A Hatful of Rain
John Pope, Sr.
1968
Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland
Narrator (voice)
1965
Stakeout on Dope Street
Mr. Fennel
1958David and Goliath
Goliath (voice)
1986
A Cold Wind in August
Juley Franz
1961
But I Don't Want to Get Married!
Walter Benjamin
1970
1001 Arabian Nights
The Jinni of the Lamp (voice)
1959
Almonds and Raisins
1984
The Singing Blacksmith
Yankel, as a boy
1938A Look Back at Crossbow
Narrator (uncredited) (voice)
1965
The Savage Eye
Kirk
1960Newman's Drugstore
1976
The Great Rights
1963The Big Freeze
1971
The Odds Against
Narrator
1966A Storm of Strangers: Jewish American
Narrator
1970Flying South
Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
1947