Herschel Bernardi
Acting • Born 1923-10-30 – Died 1986-05-09
Biography
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.
Filmography
81 credits
The Front
Movie • 1976
Philip Sussman
Irma la Douce
Movie • 1963
Inspector Lefevre
I-Man
Movie • 1986
Bogosian
Send Me No Flowers
Movie • 1964
TV Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
1001 Arabian Nights
Movie • 1959
The Jinni of the Lamp (voice)
A Storm of Strangers: Jewish American
Movie • 1970
Narrator
Love with the Proper Stranger
Movie • 1963
Dominick Rossini
Murder by Contract
Movie • 1958
George
The Savage Eye
Movie • 1960
Kirk
The Man from Button Willow
Movie • 1965
The Captain / Saloon Man#1 (voice)
Sand Castles
Movie • 1972
Alexis
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
Movie • 1974
Laban
No Place to Run
Movie • 1972
Hyam Malsh
Hangman
Movie • 1964
Narrator
But I Don't Want to Get Married!
Movie • 1970
Walter Benjamin
The George Raft Story
Movie • 1961
Sam
Actor
Movie • 1978
Nahum Favel Weissenfreund
The Big Freeze
Movie • 1971
Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Movie • 1974
The Million Dollar Face
Movie • 1981
Nick Ravenna
David and Goliath
Movie • 1986
Goliath (voice)
A Cold Wind in August
Movie • 1961
Juley Franz
Stakeout on Dope Street
Movie • 1958
Mr. Fennel
The Singing Blacksmith
Movie • 1938
Yankel, as a boy
No Deposit, No Return
Movie • 1976
Sgt. Max Turner
The Great Rights
Movie • 1963
A Hatful of Rain
Movie • 1968
John Pope, Sr.
Journey Back to Oz
Movie • 1972
Woodenhead Pinto Stallion III (voice)
A Look Back at Crossbow
Movie • 1965
Narrator (uncredited) (voice)
Almonds and Raisins
Movie • 1984
The Honey Pot
Movie • 1967
Oscar Ludwig (uncredited) (scenes deleted)
Flying South
Movie • 1947
Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
The Odds Against
Movie • 1966
Narrator
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Kid McCoy
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Louis Strode
Arnie
TV • 1970
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Joe Monti
Route 66
TV • 1960
Highway to Heaven
TV • 1984
Naked City
TV • 1958
Stanley Dorkner
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Captain Ames
Hail to the Chief
TV • 1985
Helmut Luger
Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
Lieutenant Jacoby
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Eddie
Kraft Music Hall
TV • 1958
Profiles in Courage
TV • 1964
Gen. Daniel Sickles
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
Grindl
TV • 1963
Good Heavens
TV • 1976
Mr. Novak
TV • 1963
Mr. Otis
The Detectives
TV • 1959
The Art of Being Nick
TV
Nick's Grandfather
Honey West
TV • 1965
Vacation Playhouse
TV • 1963
Jerome P. Baggley
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Pico
The Walter Winchell File
TV • 1957
Harbor Command
TV • 1957
Route 66
TV • 1960
Gerald Ward
Naked City
TV • 1958
Gus Slate
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
TV • 1958
Joe Sale
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Nathan Agurski
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Muggsy - a Hobo
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Checkmate
TV • 1960
Ned Hazly
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
McCarthy
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Benno Fisk
The Flintstones
TV • 1960
Silky (uncredited) (voice)
The Flintstones
TV • 1960
Doctor #1 (voice)
The Flintstones
TV • 1960
Detective (voice)
The Flintstones
TV • 1960
Agent (voice)
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Avery Mendelsohn
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Julius Albert Vernon
Sam Benedict
TV • 1962
Insp. Tony Delgano
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
State Trooper
TV • 1956
Jake Carney
$weepstake$
TV • 1979
Meyer Bolinski
Studio 57
TV • 1954
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self (uncredited)