Bernard Fox

At 89 years old, Bernard Fox has this physical status:

Bernard Lawson (11 May 1927 – 14 December 2016, better known as Bernard Fox) was a Welsh actor.

Malcolm Robert Shelton (1997), a researcher in Barnaby Jones' epic fantasy horror film The Mummy (1999), he is best known for his roles as Dr. Bombay (1964–1972), Colonel Crittendon in the comedy film Bewitched (1964–1972), and Captain Arthur Redford in the epic fantasy horror film The Mummy (1999).

Early life

Fox was a fifth-generation performer. He was born in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, and the son of Queenie (née Barrett) and Gerald Lawson, both stage actors. He had an older sister, Mavis, and his uncle, Wilfrid Lawson, was a British actor.

Personal life

Amanda and Valerie, Fox and his wife's two children.

Source

Career

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 II and Korea, he resurrectered his acting career and appeared in over 30 cinema films from 1956 to 2004, including two cinematic dramatizations of the sinking of the RMS Titanic (1998) (uncredited as Frederick Fleet). "Iceberg dead ahead, sir," the poet sang. When playing the sailor in the ship's crow's nest, he felt as if he was in charge of the crow's nest. His other film appearances included supporting roles in broad comedies (Yellowbeard, Herbie Goes, Monte Carlo, and The Private Eyes, where he spent a homicidal butler in the last film, as well as providing the voice of the Chairmouse in the Disney animated film The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. In the 1999 adventure film The Mummy, Winston Havelock played Winston Havelock, a put-out-to-grass former Royal Flying Corps airman. In 2004, Fox made his last appearance in Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes.

On 18 episodes of Fox's Bewitched from 1967 to 1972, the witch doctor Dr. Bombay appeared. However, his first appearance on the program was not as Dr. Bombay, but as a professional witch debunker. In a 1989 episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse, he reprised the role of Dr. Bombay on the 1977 sequel series Tabitha and again in 1999 on soap opera Passions, as a genie doctor ("wish doctor" spewed it as a genie doctor." Fox was the sole surviving adult recurring cast member of Bewitched, leaving Nancy Kovack (who played Darrin Stephens) as the only remaining adult cast member after his death; child actors Erin Murphy and Adam Lawrence, who portrayed Darrin and Samantha's children, are still alive.

Fox portrayed the bumbling "Colonel" Rodney Crittendon on eight episodes of Hogan's Heroes between 1965 and 1970, and Crittendon, the equivalent American rank, was given to Crittendon's role to avoid confusion for the show's American audience). He appeared in two episodes of Columbo's detective mystery series "Dagger of the Mind" and "Troubled Waters." In season 2, episode 8, Fox also appeared as English valet Malcolm Meriweather in three episodes of The Andy Griffith Show and as Commander Smiths in Knight Rider.

In "The Phantom Major," episode 3 of F Troop, and "Tea and Empathy," episode 18 of M*A*S*H's season 6, Fox appeared as a British Major in 1964. Richie Petrie plays the father of a teenage girl who keeps beating up Fox. He appeared on "Teacher's Petrie," where he served as a night school creative writing coach, and in "Never Bathe" on Saturday as the house detective. In 1965, Fox made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as murderer Peter Stange in "The Case of the Laughing Lady."

In The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Fox appeared in McHale's Navy; also in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. "The Thor Affair" episode as munitions magnate Brutus Thor's determined effort to bring world peace (1966) as well as in the two-part episode "The Bridge of Lions Affair" in 1966, wherein he appeared as THRUSH agent Jordin, whose regular response to each new assignment is "I'll look into it"; and "One White Rose for Death" in 1986. In addition,, he appeared in Sherlock & Me as Dr. Watson with Michael Evans in the early 1980s.

Source