- Culture
- 15 Dec 16
The veteran actor played Dr. Bombay on the ABC series Bewitched and two Titanic films released 39 years apart.
Veteran Hollywood actor Bernard Fox passed away yesterday at age 89 from a heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital, publicist Harlan Boll announced.
Fox did more than 20 appearances in television shows and more than 30 films along his career.
The actor played Dr. Bombay on 19 episodes of Bewitched, which ran from 1966-72. Fox also appeared in a role in A Night to Remember (1958), about the Titanic disaster, and then played Col. Archibald Gracie in James Cameron's 1997 film about the Titanic sinking.
The Welsh-born performer, portrayed Col. Crittendon on another popular 1960s sitcom, Hogan's Heroes, retired Air Force pilot Winston Havlock in The Mummy (1999) and voiced the Chairman in the Disney animated features The Rescuers (1977) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990).
He is survived by his wife Jacqueline, along with their daughter, Amanda, and two grandchildren.