{"id":1711,"date":"2016-12-14T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T01:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2016-12-16T21:13:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T02:13:49","slug":"bernard-fox-tvs-dr-bombay-and-col-crittendon-dead-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/bernard-fox-tvs-dr-bombay-and-col-crittendon-dead-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Fox, TV\u2019s Dr. Bombay and Col. Crittendon, dead at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1712\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dr-bombay-390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dr-bombay-390.jpg 390w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dr-bombay-390-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A family spokesman says that Bernard Fox, known to TV viewers as Dr. Bombay on <strong><em>\u201cBewitched\u201d<\/em><\/strong> and Col. Crittendon on <strong><em>\u201cHogan\u2019s Heroes,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> has died. He was 89.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman Harlan Boll said the actor died Wednesday of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital.<\/p><div id=\"morty-1773771155\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>[wpdevart_youtube width=&#8221;640&#8243; height=&#8221;385&#8243; autoplay=&#8221;0&#8243; theme=&#8221;dark&#8221; loop_video=&#8221;0&#8243; enable_fullscreen=&#8221;1&#8243; show_related=&#8221;0&#8243; show_popup=&#8221;0&#8243; thumb_popup_width=&#8221;213&#8243; thumb_popup_height=&#8221;128&#8243; show_title=&#8221;0&#8243; show_youtube_icon=&#8221;0&#8243; show_annotations=&#8221;1&#8243; show_progress_bar_color=&#8221;red&#8221; autohide_parameters=&#8221;1&#8243; set_initial_volume=&#8221;false&#8221; initial_volume=&#8221;100&#8243; disable_keyboard=&#8221;0&#8243;]VQ_4OvUC1AY[\/wpdevart_youtube]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1719\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1719 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bbott-07532-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bbott-07532-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bbott-07532-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bbott-07532-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bbott-07532-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bbott-07532.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernard Fox as Dr. Bombay on<em> Bewitched<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bernard Fox was a fifth-generation performer; born Bernard Lawson in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, the son of Queenie (n\u00e9e Barrett) and Gerald Lawson, both stage actors. He had an older sister, Mavis, and his uncle was actor Wilfrid Lawson.<\/p>\n<p>Fox began his film career at the age of 18 months and by the age of 14 he was an assistant manager of a theatre. After his naval services in the Royal Navy during World War II he resumed his career and soon was in 30 film credits from 1956 to 2004 include two films revolving around the sinking of RMS Titanic, separated by 39 years. Fox was in both <em>Titanic<\/em> (1997) (as Colonel Archibald Gracie IV) and the earlier version of the tragedy<em> A Night to Remember<\/em> (1958) (uncredited as Frederick Fleet). In the latter, he delivered the line &#8220;Iceberg dead ahead, sir!&#8221; while playing the part of a sailor in the ship&#8217;s crow&#8217;s nest.<\/p>\n<p>His other screen roles ranged from supporting parts in broad comedies <em>(Yellowbeard<\/em>, <em>Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo<\/em>, and <em>The Private Eyes<\/em>, playing a homicidal butler in the last) to supplying the voice of the Chairmouse in the Disney animated features <em>The Rescuers<\/em> and <em>The Rescuers Down Under<\/em>. He played the role of Winston Havelock, a retired Air Force pilot, in the 1999 adventure film<em> The Mummy<\/em>. In 2004, Fox made his final appearance before retirement in<em> Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes<\/em>.<\/p><div id=\"morty-109676366\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1715\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1715 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bernard-fox-as-osgood-rightmire-in-bewitched-240x300.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bernard-fox-as-osgood-rightmire-in-bewitched-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bernard-fox-as-osgood-rightmire-in-bewitched.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernard Fox as Osgood Rightmire in ABC&#8217;s Bewitched Thurday, April 7 1966<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On television, Fox portrayed the warlock physician (or &#8220;witch doctor&#8221;) Dr. Bombay on <em>Bewitched<\/em> and the inept &#8220;Colonel&#8221; Crittendon (actually an RAF Group Captain, though always referred to as a Colonel) on Hogan&#8217;s Heroes. However, his first appearance in Bewitched was not as Dr. Bombay, but as a professional witch debunker. He repeated the role of Dr. Bombay on the 1977 sequel <em>Tabitha<\/em>, and again in 1999 on the soap opera <em>Passions<\/em>, and spoofed it as a genie doctor (&#8220;wish doctor&#8221;) in a 1989 episode of Pee-wee&#8217;s Playhouse.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in two episodes in the mystery series <em>Columbo<\/em>, &#8220;Dagger of the Mind&#8221; and &#8220;Troubled Waters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Fox was the penultimate surviving adult recurring cast member of the sitcom <em>Bewitched<\/em>, leaving Nancy Kovack as the only remaining one. Fox also appeared as English valet Malcolm Meriweather on <em>The Andy Griffith Show<\/em>, and in Knight Rider as Commander Smiths in season 2, episode 8.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1716\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1716 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bernard-fox-werner-klemperer-240x300.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bernard-fox-werner-klemperer-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bernard-fox-werner-klemperer.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernard Fov (left) and Werner Kl;emperer on CBS&#8217; Hogan&#8217;s Heroes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fox appeared as a British Major in &#8220;The Phantom Major,&#8221; episode 3 of <em>F Troop<\/em>, and in &#8220;Tea and Empathy,&#8221; episode 17 of season 6 of <em>M*A*S*H<\/em>. In 1964, Fox appeared in episode 117 of <em>The Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em>, titled &#8220;Girls Will Be Boys.&#8221; Fox plays the father of a little girl who keeps beating up Richie Petrie. He also appeared in episode 95, &#8220;Teacher&#8217;s Petrie,&#8221; where he played a night school creative writing teacher, and in &#8220;Never Bathe on Saturday&#8221; as the house detective.<\/p>\n<p>In 1965 Fox made a guest appearance on <em>Perry Mason<\/em> as murderer Peter Stange in &#8220;The Case of the Laughing Lady.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox also appeared in <em>McHale&#8217;s Navy<\/em>, <em>The Man from U.N.C.L.E<\/em>. &#8220;The Thor Affair&#8221; As munitions magnate Brutus Thor, intent on assassinating a &#8220;Gandhi-like&#8221; figure who is trying to bring world peace (1966). And a two-part episode &#8220;The Bridge of Lion&#8217;s Affair&#8221; in 1966, as THRUSH agent Jordin, whose constant response to each additional assignment is &#8220;I&#8217;ll look into it&#8221;; and in the <em>Murder, She Wrote<\/em> episode &#8220;One White Rose for Death&#8221; in 1986. He co-starred with Michael Evans as Dr. Watson in &#8220;Sherlock &amp; Me&#8221; in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Fox married his wife, Jacqueline, in 1961. 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