Herschel Bernardi

Actor

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Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

October 30, 1923

Died

May 09, 1986

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Biography

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Swarthy character player, best remembered as Tevye in the long-running musical "Fiddler on the Roof." Bernardi played gangster types or slow-thinking, good-natured schmoes in occasional feature comedies and dramas including "A Cold Wind in August" (1961), "Irma La Douce" (1963), and "The Front" (1976). A busy voice-over artist as well, Bernardi was much in demand for cartoon characters, ...

Filmography

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Almonds and Raisins (1985)

The Million Dollar Face (1981)

The Front (1976)

No Deposit, No Return (1976)

The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974)

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Murder By Contract (1958) -- (Movie Clip) You Talk Like A Citizen

Front, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Make It A Firing Squad

Biography

Swarthy character player, best remembered as Tevye in the long-running musical "Fiddler on the Roof." Bernardi played gangster types or slow-thinking, good-natured schmoes in occasional feature comedies and dramas including "A Cold Wind in August" (1961), "Irma La Douce" (1963), and "The Front" (1976). A busy voice-over artist as well, Bernardi was much in demand for cartoon characters, as with his Charlie the Tuna of TV commercials fame.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Almonds and Raisins (1985)

The Million Dollar Face (1981)

The Front (1976)

No Deposit, No Return (1976)

The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974)

Journey Back to Oz (1974)

Sandcastles (1972)

No Place to Run (1972)

The Honey Pot (1967)

The Man From Button Willow (1965)

Love With the Proper Stranger (1963)

Dominick Rossini

Irma La Douce (1963)

The George Raft Story (1961)

A Cold Wind in August (1961)

The Savage Eye (1960)

1001 arabian nights (1959)

The Jinni of the Lamp

Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)

Murder By Contract (1958)

Cast (Special)

Taking It Home (1986)

Newman's Drugstore (1976)

Cast (Short)

Searchers for a Special City (1966)

Sean O'Casey The Spirit of Ireland (1965)

A Look Back at Crossbow (1965)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Seventh Avenue (1977)

Life Events

1968

Returned to Broadway to star in the title role of the musical, "Zorba"

Videos

Murder By Contract (1958) -- (Movie Clip) You Talk Like A Citizen Finally satisfied that neither he nor his minders (Philip Pine, Herschel Bernardi) are being watched, hit-man Claude (Vince Edwards) has agreed to be shown his target, a grand-jury witness in a guarded Coldwater Canyon home, and he's not happy to learn who she is (Caprice Toriel), in Murder By Contract, 1958.

Front, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Make It A Firing Squad Howard (Woody Allen) enjoying the fruits of his work "fronting" for blacklisted writers, has a meeting with Delaney (Lloyd Gough) foiled, then arrives at the studio where Florence (Andrea Marcovicci) and Sussman (Herschel Bernardi) have an emergency, in The Front. 1977.

Front, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) First Class Script His first visit to the TV studio, Howard (Woody Allen), posing as a writer in place of his blacklisted friend, meets Florence (Andrea Marcovicci), Sussman (Herschel Bernardi), actor Parks (William Bogert) and comic Hecky (Zero Mostel), in Martin Ritt's The Front, 1976.

Stakeout On Dope Street (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Other Racy Items Nick (Morris Miller, later better known as Steven Marlo) taking the lead with mild-mannered junkie Danny (Allen Kramer), who's been moving the heroin he and buddies Jim (Yale Wexler) and Ves (Jonathon Haze) found, no trouble yet, in Stakeout On Dope Street, 1958.

Stakeout On Dope Street (1958) -- (Movie Clip) They Call It Junk We finally meet gang boss Fennel (Herschel Bernardi), chewing out bumbling Mitch (Herman Rudin) and Lenny (Phillip Mansour) for losing the stuff, for which they go hunting, in the 1958 feature from the team behind the KTTV Los Angeles series Confidential File, Stakeout On Dope Street.

Murder By Contract -- (Movie Clip) Feelings Claude (Vince Edwards) tells henchmen Marc and George (Herschel Bernardi and Philip Pine) about the feelings he doesn't have in Murder By Contract, 1958.

Murder By Contract -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits Opening credit sequence for Irving Lerner's Murder By Contract, 1958, starring Vince Edwards.

Honey Pot, The - (Original Trailer) Rex Harrison plays a millionaire out to fleece former lovers in The Honey Pot (1967) from the writer/director of All About Eve.

Family

Jack Bernardi

Brother

Actor.

Bibliography

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