| Bernard Fox | |
| Born | Bernard Lawson 11 May 1927 (1927-05-11) (age 82) Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom |
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| Occupation | actor |
| Years active | 1955–2004 |
| Spouse(s) | Jacqueline (married 1961) |
Bernard Fox (born 11 May 1927) is a Welsh-born British film and television actor.
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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 comic actor Wilfred Lawson.[5]
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 Col. 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. Recently, he played the part of Winston the pilot in the 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. As of 2009[update], Fox is the last surviving adult cast member of Bewitched.
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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