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Herschel Bernardi (30 October 1923 New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 - 9 May 1986 Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film, Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

He is best known for his starring roles on Broadway including Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
 (as Tevye), Zorba, and Bajour
Bajour (musical)

Bajour is a musical theatre with a book by Ernest Kinoy and music and lyrics by Walter Marks. Based on the Joseph Mitchell short stories The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies published in The New Yorker, its title is a Romani people word that refers to a Confidence trick in which lonely and unhappy women are swindled ou...
, but he also acted in many television shows, including The Eleventh Hour
The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)

The Eleventh Hour is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey , Jack Ging , and Ralph Bellamy , which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on National Broadcasting Company from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964....
, State Trooper
State Trooper (TV series)

State Trooper is a half-hour television crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada State Police....
, Peter Gunn
Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn is an United States detective fiction television programme which aired on the National Broadcasting Company and later American Broadcasting Company television networks from 1958 to 1961....
. He was the lead
Leading actor

A leading actor, leading actress, or simply lead, plays the role of the protagonist in a film or play. The word lead may also refer to the largest role in the piece and leading actor may refer to a person who typically plays such parts or an actor with a respected body of work....
 in the CBS sitcom Arnie
Arnie (TV series)

Arnie was a television series that ran from 1970 to 1972 on the CBS network. It starred Herschel Bernardi as the protagonist. It also starred Sue Ane Langdon, Roger Bowen, and Charles Nelson Reilly ....
.

Born into the Yiddish Theatre
Yiddish theatre

Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewish community....
, Bernardi was appearing on the stages of 2nd Avenue with his acting family before he could talk.

In the 1930s
1930s

In Western Europe, Australia and the United States, more progressive reforms occurred as opposed to the extreme measures sought elsewhere. Roosevelt's New Deal attempted to use government spending to combat large-scale unemployment and severely negative growth....
, Bernardi appeared in the Yiddish films of Edgar G. Ulmer
Edgar G. Ulmer

Edgar G. Ulmer was an Austria-United States film director. He is best remembered for the movies The Black Cat and Detour . These stylish and eccentric works have achieved cult status, whereas Ulmer's other films remain relatively unknown....
 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
Irma la Douce

Irma La Douce is a 1963 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine....
, Love with the Proper Stranger
Love with the Proper Stranger

Love with the Proper Stranger is a romantic comedy drama film made by Alan Pakula-Robert Mulligan Productions and Boardwalk Productions and released by Paramount Pictures....
 and the 1976 film The Front
The Front

The Front , written by Walter Bernstein, directed by Martin Ritt and featuring Woody Allen and Zero Mostel, is a film about the blacklist during the age of live television....
, a film about blacklisting in the entertainment industry
Hollywood blacklist

The Hollywood blacklist?more precisely the entertainment industry blacklist, into which it expanded?was the mid-twentieth-century list of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S....
.






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Herschel Bernardi (30 October 1923 New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 - 9 May 1986 Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film, Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

He is best known for his starring roles on Broadway including Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
 (as Tevye), Zorba, and Bajour
Bajour (musical)

Bajour is a musical theatre with a book by Ernest Kinoy and music and lyrics by Walter Marks. Based on the Joseph Mitchell short stories The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies published in The New Yorker, its title is a Romani people word that refers to a Confidence trick in which lonely and unhappy women are swindled ou...
, but he also acted in many television shows, including The Eleventh Hour
The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)

The Eleventh Hour is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey , Jack Ging , and Ralph Bellamy , which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on National Broadcasting Company from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964....
, State Trooper
State Trooper (TV series)

State Trooper is a half-hour television crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada State Police....
, Peter Gunn
Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn is an United States detective fiction television programme which aired on the National Broadcasting Company and later American Broadcasting Company television networks from 1958 to 1961....
. He was the lead
Leading actor

A leading actor, leading actress, or simply lead, plays the role of the protagonist in a film or play. The word lead may also refer to the largest role in the piece and leading actor may refer to a person who typically plays such parts or an actor with a respected body of work....
 in the CBS sitcom Arnie
Arnie (TV series)

Arnie was a television series that ran from 1970 to 1972 on the CBS network. It starred Herschel Bernardi as the protagonist. It also starred Sue Ane Langdon, Roger Bowen, and Charles Nelson Reilly ....
.

Born into the Yiddish Theatre
Yiddish theatre

Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewish community....
, Bernardi was appearing on the stages of 2nd Avenue with his acting family before he could talk.

In the 1930s
1930s

In Western Europe, Australia and the United States, more progressive reforms occurred as opposed to the extreme measures sought elsewhere. Roosevelt's New Deal attempted to use government spending to combat large-scale unemployment and severely negative growth....
, Bernardi appeared in the Yiddish films of Edgar G. Ulmer
Edgar G. Ulmer

Edgar G. Ulmer was an Austria-United States film director. He is best remembered for the movies The Black Cat and Detour . These stylish and eccentric works have achieved cult status, whereas Ulmer's other films remain relatively unknown....
 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
Irma la Douce

Irma La Douce is a 1963 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine....
, Love with the Proper Stranger
Love with the Proper Stranger

Love with the Proper Stranger is a romantic comedy drama film made by Alan Pakula-Robert Mulligan Productions and Boardwalk Productions and released by Paramount Pictures....
 and the 1976 film The Front
The Front

The Front , written by Walter Bernstein, directed by Martin Ritt and featuring Woody Allen and Zero Mostel, is a film about the blacklist during the age of live television....
, a film about blacklisting in the entertainment industry
Hollywood blacklist

The Hollywood blacklist?more precisely the entertainment industry blacklist, into which it expanded?was the mid-twentieth-century list of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S....
. Bernardi was the victim of blacklisting during the 1950s, as were several other performers and the screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
 and director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 on the 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
Charlie the Tuna

Charlie the Tuna, the cartoon mascot tuna for StarKist Tuna, was created by Tom Rogers of the Leo Burnett Agency after StarKist hired Leo Burnett in 1961....
".

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".

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