Celebrity Biographies
bernard fox
The most veteran viewers will remember Dr. Bombay, the witch doctor distinguishable by his top hat in “Charmed”, the sitcom that was successful between 1964 and 1972. He was played by Bernard Fox, an actor of British origin, US citizen, who has died on December 14, 2016, at the age of 89, as a result of heart failure at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in California. He had a hundred papers behind him.
Born on May 11, 1927, in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, Bernard Lawson came from an illustrious clan of five generations of actors. His parents, Queenie Barrett and Gerald Lawson, made it big on the stage, while his uncle, Wilfrid Lawson , had notable film roles with John Ford and King Vidor . It is not surprising that at 18 months he made his debut on stage occasionally, or that at 14 he became assistant director of the theater where his parents worked.
After serving in the Navy during the hard years of World War II, he made his television debut in 1955, with a fixed role in the series Sixpenny Corner . He later emigrated to the United States, where he accumulated jobs, for example he was a policeman in the comedy conceived for the showcasing of Rock Hudson Room for two .
It began to become popular for the extraordinary television series Hogan’s Heroes , about a group of American prisoners in a Nazi camp, capable of carrying out the most exciting missions without leaving prison, due to the clumsiness of the Germans. He played the hilarious Colonel Crittendon, a British prisoner.
He was enshrined in Bewitched , where he was Dr. Bombay, family doctor formed by the witch Samantha and her husband without powers, Darrin, who gets into numerous troubles at first, because he has to help him undo the consequences of his constant mistakes. The character was distinguished because he appeared urgently, wherever he went, when he was invoked by the words “Calling Dr. Bombay! Emergency!”.
Bernard Fox was in two films about the world’s most popular ocean liner. He appeared as a lookout manager, uncredited in the titles, in Last Night of the Titanic . He had more of a presence in James Cameron ‘s Titanic , where he was a real character, Colonel Archibald Gracie IV, one of the upper-class passengers, who survived the disaster.
Unlike the doctor who made him famous, a womanizer, he was a classic man who shunned scandals. He was married since 1961 to his now widow, Jacqueline Fox, with whom he had a daughter, Amanda, who has given him two grandchildren, David-Mitchell, and… Samantha! A tribute to the witch?