Bernard Fox, Who Played Dr. Bombay on 'Bewitched,' Dies at 89

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The Welshman also was known for his part on 'Hogan's Figures,' and he showed up in two Titanic deliver movies launched 39 decades apart.
Bernard Fox, the acting professional with a Western style who is perhaps best known for taking part in the womanizing wizard physician Dr. Bombay on the ABC sequence Bewitched, passed away Wed. He was 89.

The Welshman, who represented the bumbling Colonel Crittendon on one other Sixties comedy, CBS' Hogan's Figures, passed away of center failing at Area Presbyterian Medical center in Van Nuys, Calif., publicist Harlan Boll declared.

Fox showed up in an uncredited part in A Night to Keep in mind (1958), about the Titanic deliver catastrophe, and then performed Colonel Archibald Gracie IV in Wayne Cameron's 1997 movie about the ruined sea lining. In the first one, his personality provided the range, "Iceberg deceased forward, sir!," from the ship's crow's home.

Fox talked the Chair in the Disney cartoon functions The Rescuers (1977) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990) and represented outdated Air Power lead Winston Havelock in The Mummy (1999).

His movie résumé comes with Herbie Goes to S5620 Carlo (1977), The Personal Sight (1980) and Yellowbeard (1983). He devoted to enjoying upper-crust characters.

Fox showed up as Dr. Bombay on 19 instances of Bewitched, which ran from 1966-72, and then reprised the part on the 1977 follow up Tabitha, in 1999 on the detergent safari Interests and on a 1989 show of Pee-wee's Perform house.

In a 1998 meeting, Fox said he attracted motivation for Dr. Bombay from a man he provided with in the Elegant Fast during Globe War II.

"He was the official responsible of the camping ground that we were in, and it was an all-male camping, and one evening, I was on responsibility and we got six Females Elegant Naval Support entered be put up," he remembered.

"So I went to this official and said, 'What shall I do?' And he said, 'Oh, I don't know, give 'em a hot wheat bran mash, some fresh hay and bed 'em down for night.' And I was thinking, 'What a fantastic way to try out [Dr. Bombay.]' And that's the way I performed him, and [the Bewitched writers] just kept composing him returning in.

"If I'd just gone for an common physician, you would not have observed any more about it. But because I created him such a vibrant personality, that's why they desired him back; he was simple to create for. They came up with the concept of him originating from various areas of the world all plenty of your efforts and in different costumes; that was their concept. The puns, I came up with, and at that period, they let you do that."

Fox also showed up as British valet Malcolm Meriweather on The Andrew Griffith Display and Dr. Watson reverse Stewart Granger as Sherlock Holmes in a 1972 ABC telefilm form of The Chase of the Baskervilles. And he guest-starred on sequence such as The Cock Van Dyke Display, Perry Builder, McHale's Fast, F Troop, Columbo, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Soldier Driver, M*A*S*H and Killing, She Had written.

He was a fan of miracle and impression and a reasonable time part of the Magic Adventure in The show biz industry.

Survivors consist of his spouse Jacqueline, little girl Amanda-b and grand kids David-Mitchel and Samantha.

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