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Kopell was born in the [[Brooklyn]] borough of New York City, the son of Pauline ([[married and maiden names|née]] Taran) and Al Bernard Kopell.<ref name=filmr>{{cite web| url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/56/Bernie-Kopell.html| title=Bernie Kopell profile| publisher=FilmReference.com}}</ref> For a time, he served in the [[United States Navy]]. He served on board the {{USS|Iowa|BB-61}} as a librarian.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/08/local/la-me-iowa-20120609| title=Ex-Iowa sailors salute the ship as it makes its final port call| work=[[Los Angeles Times]]| accessdate=August 3, 2015}}</ref> |
Kopell was born in the [[Brooklyn]] borough of New York City, the son of Pauline ([[married and maiden names|née]] Taran) and Al Bernard Kopell.<ref name=filmr>{{cite web| url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/56/Bernie-Kopell.html| title=Bernie Kopell profile| publisher=FilmReference.com}}</ref> Kopell is [[Jew]]ish.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/bernie-kopell-siegfried-confesses-ive-been-very-lucky/2016/09/13 | title=Bernie Kopell: Siegfried confesses ‘I’ve been very lucky’ | work=Baltimore Post-Examiner | accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref> For a time, he served in the [[United States Navy]]. He served on board the {{USS|Iowa|BB-61}} as a librarian.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/08/local/la-me-iowa-20120609| title=Ex-Iowa sailors salute the ship as it makes its final port call| work=[[Los Angeles Times]]| accessdate=August 3, 2015}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 15:17, 1 July 2018
Bernie Kopell | |
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Kopell as Dr. Adam Bricker, 1977 | |
Born | Bernard Morton Kopell June 21, 1933 |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1963–present |
Spouses | Celia Whitney (1962–?)
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Children | 2 |
Bernard Morton "Bernie" Kopell[3] (born June 21, 1933) is an American character actor known for his roles as Siegfried in Get Smart from 1966 to 1969[4] and as Dr. Adam Bricker ("Doc") in ABC's The Love Boat from 1977 to 1986.[4]
Early life
Kopell was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, the son of Pauline (née Taran) and Al Bernard Kopell.[3] Kopell is Jewish.[5] For a time, he served in the United States Navy. He served on board the USS Iowa (BB-61) as a librarian.[6]
Career
Kopell's longest-running role was as Dr. Adam Bricker on The Love Boat, an Aaron Spelling production. He remained on the series during its entire run, appearing in 250 episodes.[7]
Before becoming known for his The Love Boat role, Kopell appeared in many television series, often sitcoms. He appeared on Ripcord, That Girl, The Jack Benny Program, Green Acres, Our Man Higgins, The Flying Nun, Ben Casey, McHale's Navy, My Favorite Martian, Lancelot_Link,_Secret_Chimp, Petticoat Junction, The Streets of San Francisco, Room 222, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Kojak.[8]
Kopell made memorable recurring appearances as KAOS agent Siegfried in Get Smart, Alan-a-Dale in When Things Were Rotten, Jerry Bauman in That Girl and Louie Pallucci in The Doris Day Show. He played several characters on Bewitched including the witches' apothecary and the hippie warlock Alonzo in the episode "The Warlock in the Gray Flannel Suit". He played Charlie Miller as a member of the cast of the situation comedy Needles and Pins, which ran for 14 episodes in the autumn of 1973. He portrayed a plastic surgeon who gave Ed Brown a facelift on Chico and the Man. He played a director in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Good-Bye George"). About this same time, he guest starred on the short-lived The New Phil Silvers Show.[8]
After The Love Boat, Kopell was so recognizable that he was not in roles often without a nod to his famous role. He appears as a coroner in "Which Prue is it Anyway", an episode of Charmed. Kopell appears in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the Critic", playing Mr. Gilson, the ill-fated restroom attendant, whom Monk referred to as the Michelangelo of lavatories. He guest starred in "Pinky", a 2009 episode of My Name is Earl.[8] He made a cameo as a patient in the Scrubs episode "My Friend the Doctor", as well as an episode of the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. In a dream sequence of Fresh Prince of Bel Air Kopell made a parody cameo of himself as an actor who played a ship's doctor so many times he offers to perform an operation for real, while in a 1994 episode of Saturday Night Live he appeared as "Doc" during a Love Boat-themed spoof of Star Trek: The Next Generation.[8] In the 1990s, Kopell traded on his Doc Bricker persona when he appeared in a commercial for an anti-snoring product named D-Snore, in which he noted that loud snoring "can even ruin a romantic cruise."[9]
Kopell's role as Doc on The Love Boat was parodied in a humorous appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in 1995. Two entries in that night's Top Ten List poked fun at The Love Boat, and at the Doc character specifically. The camera cut to Kopell, who was sitting in the audience, and he stormed out of the theater.[10][11] A few moments later, he was shown having been re-seated in the mezzanine when the second parody was made at his expense, and again stood up, raised his fists and stormed out, playing along with the host.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1963 | The Man from the Diners' Club | Comet Messenger | Uncredited |
1963 | The Thrill of It All | Commercial Director | Uncredited |
1963 | The Wheeler Dealers | Fawning Art Fan | Uncredited |
1964 | Good Neighbor Sam | Richard Taragon | (uncredited) |
1965 | The Loved One | Assistant to the Guru Brahmin | |
1966 | Death of a Salesman | Howard | |
1972 | Wild in the Sky | Penrat | |
1976 | The Love Boat (TV Movie) | Dr. Adam Bricker | |
1976 | Flo's Place | Hoffman | |
1976 | Bound for Glory | Baker - Woody's Agent | (uncredited) |
1977 | The Love Boat II | Dr. O'Neill | |
1978 | A Guide for the Married Woman | Bill | |
1985 | Half-Nelson | ||
1986 | Combat High | Mr. Mendelsson | |
1989 | Get Smart, Again | Conrad Siegfried / Prof. Helmut Schmelding | |
1989 | The Magic Boy's Easter | Mordechai the Magician | (video short) |
1990 | The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage | Doc | |
1992 | Missing Pieces | Dr. Gutman | |
1998 | Bug Buster | Gil Griffin | |
1998 | Sunset Beach: Shockwave | Captain James Nelson | |
1998 | Land of the Free | TV Host | |
1999 | Follow Your Heart | Anthony Mason | |
2002 | The Stoneman | Professor Milano | |
2003 | Dismembered | ||
2003 | A Light in the Forest | Artemis Schnell | |
2004 | Miss Castaway and the Island Girls | Officer | (uncredited) |
2005 | The Cutter | Issac Teller | |
2006 | The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park | Percy Wells | |
2007 | Say It in Russian | Geezer 2 | |
2008 | Get Smart | Opel Driver | |
2010 | First Dog | Psychiatrist Juvenile Hall |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1961 | Whispering Smith | Roulette Game Operator (as Bernard Kopell) | Episode: "Trademark" |
1962 | The Jack Benny Program | Alberto Renaudé | Episode: "The Story of the New Talent Show" |
1963 | Ripcord | Photographer | Episode "Picture of Terror" |
1963 | The Jack Benny Program | Banker - Mr. Harris | Episodes: "Jack Is Kidnapped" and "Three Musketeers Sketch" |
1963 | Our Man Higgins | Finnerty | Episode: "Half a Higgins" |
1963 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Director | Episode: "Good-Bye, George" |
1963 | McHale's Navy | Colonel Pryor | Episode: "Is There a Doctor in the Hut?" |
1964 | The Lucy Show | Interne | Episode: "Lucy Plays Florence Nightingale" |
1964 | My Favorite Martian | Morton Beanbecker - Attorney | Episode: "Poor Little Rich Cat" |
1964 | The New Phil Silvers Show | Stanislavsky | Episode: "Moonlight and Dozes" |
1964 | Petticoat Junction | Black Salmon | Episode: "The Umquaw Strip" |
1965 | The Beverly Hillbillies | Jerry Best | Episode: "The Movie Starlet" |
1965 | Valentine's Day | Episode: "The Title Fight" | |
1965 | Sally and Sam | Glen | TV Pilot |
1965 | My Favorite Martian | Senor Pepe Lopez | Episode: "El Señor from Mars" |
1965 | Ben Casey | Al Banner | Episode: "What to Her Is Plato?" |
1965 | My Favorite Martian | George | Episode: "The Girl in the Flying Machine" |
1965 | The Farmer's Daughter | Buster Cannon | Episode: "High Fashion" |
1966 | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Juan | Episode: "Remember the Alimony" |
1966 | The Farmer's Daughter | Jim Bankes | Episode: "Anyone for Swindling?" |
1966 | Run Buddy Run | Albert Overstreet | Episode: "Steam Bath & Chicken Little" |
1966 | Get Smart | Siegfried | Recurring character; 1966-1969 |
1966 | That Girl | Jerry Bauman | Recurring character; 1966-1971 |
1966 | Green Acres | James Stuart | Episode: "You Ought to Be in Pictures" |
1966 | The Hero | Charlie | Episode: "I Have a Friend" |
1968 | The Flying Nun | Dr. G. Paredes | Episode: "The Return of Father Lundigan" |
1969 | Bewitched | Dr. Chomsky | Episode: "Samantha Twitches for UNICEF" |
1969 | The Debbie Reynolds Show | Announcer | Episode: "In the Soup" |
1969 | Bewitched | A.J. Sylvester | Episode: "A Bunny for Tabitha" |
1969 | Bewitched | Apothecary | Episode: "Samantha's Secret Spell" |
1970 | Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp | Baron von Butcher (voice) | Episode: "There's No Business Like Snow Business" |
1970 | Bewitched | Apothecary | Episode: "Samantha's Lost Weekend" |
1970 | Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp | Baron von Butcher/ Creto (voices) | Episode: "The Lone A.P.E./Missile Beach Party" |
1970 | Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp | Baron von Butcher / Creto / Wang Fu (voices) | The Mysterious Motorcycle Menace/The Great Beauty Contest |
1970 | Room 222 | Roger Duncan | Episode: "Goodbye, Mr. Hip" |
1970 | Bewitched | Dr. Rhinehouse | Episode: "Samantha's Secret Is Discovered" |
1970 | Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp | Various Character Voices | Bonana/The Greatest Chase in the World |
1970 | Love, American Style | Counselor | Episode: "Love and Las Vegas/Love and the Good Samaritan/Love and the Marriage Counselor" |
1970 | The Doris Day Show | Major Laguinita (Doris' seatmate) |
Episode: "A Woman's Intuition" |
1970 | Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp | Various Character Voices | The Dreaded Hong Kong Sneeze/The Great Bank Robbery |
1970 | The Doris Day Show | Louie Pallucci | Episodes: "Doris Finds an Apartment", "How Can I Ignore the Man Next Door?", "Lost and Found", "Tony Bennett is Eating Here", "Love Makes the Pizza Go Round", "Buck Visits the Big City", "It's Christmas Time in the City", "Doris vs. Pollution" |
1971 | The Doris Day Show | Louie Pallucci | Episodes: "The Forward Pass", "Lassoin' Leroy", "Skiing Anyone?", |
1971 | Night Gallery | Reed | Episode: "The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes/Miss Lovecraft Sent Me/The Hand of Borgus Weems/Phantom of What Opera?" |
1971 | Bewitched | Baron | Episode: "Samantha and the Loch Ness Monster" |
1971 | Funny Face | Repairman | Episode: "The Repairman Cheateth" |
1971 | Love, American Style | Harry Barker | Episode: "Love and the Ledge/Love and the See-Through Man/Love and the Television Weekend/Love and the Waterbed" |
1971 | Love, American Style | Mr. Chaney | Episode: "Love and the Awakening/Love and the Bashful Groom/Love and the Four-Sided Triangle/Love and the Naked Stranger" |
1971 | Bewitched | Apothecary | Episode: "A Plague on Maurice and Samantha" |
1971 | Bewitched | Alonzo | Episode: "The Warlock in the Gray Flannel Suit" |
1971 | The Chicago Teddy Bears | Rudolpho Tarantino | Episode: "Annie Get Your Cue" |
1972 | The Doris Day Show | Louie Pallucci | Episode: "The Blessed Event" |
1972 | Ironside | George Packer | Episode: "Unreasonable Facsimile" |
1972 | The Odd Couple | Professor Faraday | Episode: "Psychic, Shmychic." |
1972 | Bewitched | Apothecary | Episode: "Sam's Witchcraft Blows a Fuse" |
1972 | Me and the Chimp | Arbogast | Episode: "Mike's Burglar Alarm" |
1972 | Insight | Willie | Episode: "Graduation Day" |
1972 | The New Dick Van Dyke Show | Officer Jack Jackson | Episode: "Sobriety Test" |
1972 | Room 222 | Roger Duncan | Episode: "Mr. Wrong" |
1972 | The Bob Newhart Show | Dr. Arnold | Episode: "I Want to Be Alone" |
1972 | The New Temperatures Rising Show | Harold Lefkowitz | Recurring character (to 1973) |
1973 | The Paul Lynde Show | Campbell | Episode: "Out of Bounds" |
1973 | The Doris Day Show | Uncle August Von Kappelhoff | Episode: "The Magnificent Fraud" |
1973 | Needles and Pins | Charlie Miller | |
1974 | The Streets of San Francisco | Arthur Ganz | Episode: "Mask of Death" |
1974 | McMillan & Wife | Bernini Mussolino | Episode: "Guilt by Association" |
1975 | Harry O | Charlie | Episode: "For the Love of Money" |
1975 | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Doctor Gravanites | Episode: "The Trevi Collection" (as Bernard Kopell) |
1975 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Tony Kramer | Episode: "Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcasters' School" |
1975 | Hot L Baltimore | Travez | Episode: "Historic L Baltimore" |
1975 | The Ghost Busters | Dr. Frankenstein | Episode: "Dr. Whatsisname" |
1975 | The Streets of San Francisco | Dean Watson | Episode: "School of Fear" |
1975 | When Things Were Rotten | Alan-A-Dale | Main role |
1975 | Kojak | Sam Bernard | Episode: "Money Back Guarantee" |
1976 | Chico and the Man | Harry Stern | Episode: "The Face Job" |
1976 | Switch | Selig | Episode: "Ain't Nobody Here Named Barney" |
1976 | Switch | Gaylord Henderson | Episode: "Gaffing the Skim" |
1976 | The Six Million Dollar Man | Pete Martin | Episode: "Vulture of the Andes" |
1977 | Alice | Burt | Episode: "The Failure" |
1977 | Code R | Garrison | Episode: "The Drifter" |
1977 | The Love Boat | Doctor Adam Bricker | Main role |
1978 | Fantasy Island | Fred Stouton | Episode: "Trouble, My Lovely/The Common Man" |
1978 | Flying High | Morgan | Episode: "The Beautiful People" |
1978 | Greatest Heroes of the Bible | Potiphar | Episode: "Joseph in Egypt" |
1979 | $weepstake$ | Episode 1.5 | |
1979 | Supertrain | Dr. Marshall Fossberg | Episode: "Pirouette" |
1979 | Charlie's Angels | Doctor Adam Bricker | Episode: "Love Boat Angels" |
1981 | Hart to Hart | James Parquest | Episode: "Hartland Express" |
1983 | Fantasy Island | Carter Ransome | Episode: "The Devil Stick/Touch and Go" |
1984 | Legmen | Apple Dan Bonny | Episode: "The Return of Apple Dan Bonny" |
1987 | Ducktales | Voice work | Episode: "Spies in Their Eyes" |
1987 | The Charmings | Dr. Roland | Episode: "Lillian Loses Her Powers" |
1987 | Sledge Hammer! | Vincent Lagarski | Episode: "The Last of the Red Hot Vampires" |
1987 | ABC Afterschool Special | Tom | Episode: "The Day My Kid Went Punk" |
1987 | The New Mike Hammer | Episode: "Elegy for a Tramp" (as Bernie Koppel) | |
1991 | Civil Wars | Episode: "A Long, Fat Frontal Presentation" | |
1992 | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Doc | Episode: "Ill Will" |
1994 | Saturday Night Live | Doc (uncredited) | Episode: "Patrick Stewart/Salt-N-Pepa" |
1995 | Get Smart | Siegfried | Episode: "Wurst Enemies" |
1997 | Diagnosis: Murder | Dr. Les Franklin | Episode: "Physician, Murder Thyself" |
1997 | Martin | Dr. Adam Bricker | Episode: "Goin' Overboard: Part 2" |
1997 | Boy Meets World | Himself | Episode: "Fraternity Row" |
1997 | Head over Heels | Himself | Episode: "Vice Guy" |
1998 | The Lionhearts | Voice work | Episode: "Leo's Diet" |
1998 | Love Boat: The Next Wave | Dr. Adam Bricker | Episode: "Reunion" |
1998 | Sunset Beach | Captain Nelson | Four episodes (Episodes #1.391, #1.392, #1.393, and #1.394) |
1999 | Charmed | Coroner | Episode: "Which Prue Is It Anyway?" |
1999 | Beverly Hills, 90210 | Dr. Beldon | Episode: "Beheading St. Valentine" |
2000 | As Told by Ginger | Mr. Libby (voice) | Episode: "Cry Wolf" |
2003 | Scrubs | Mr. Moran | Episode: "My Friend the Doctor" |
2006 | The Suite Life of Zack and Cody | Banker - Old Guy | Episode: "Not So Suite 16" |
2009 | My Name is Earl | Pinky | Episode: "Unknown" |
2009 | Monk | Gilson | Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Critic" |
2012 | See Dad Run | Colonel James Cunningham | Episode: "See Dad Run Christmas into the Ground" |
2013 | Arrested Development | Judge Kornzucker | Episode: "Indian Takers", "Off the Hook" and "Queen B." |
2013 | Hit the Floor | Mel O'Grane | Episode: "Keep Away" |
2013 | See Dad Run | Colonel James Cunningham | Episode: "See Dad Dance Around the Truth" |
2013 | Raising Hope | Charles | Episode: "Ship Happens" |
2014 | The Comeback Kids | Jim | Episode: "Richie and Gary Re-Unite" |
2016 | Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything | Morty | Episode: "The Ringer" |
2017 | Hawaii Five-0 | Itzhak Rozen | Episode: "Ka pa'ani nui", "Big Game" |
2017 | Superstore | Arthur | Episode: "Valentine's Day" |
Writer
Year | Title | Episodes | Notes |
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1978 | The Love Boat | Episode: "Winner Take Love/The Congressman Was Indiscreet/Isaac's History Lesson" | segment: "Isaac's History Lesson" |
1978 | The Love Boat | Episode: "Mike and Ike/The Witness/The Kissing Bandit" | segments: "Mike and Ike" and "The Kissing Bandit" |
1978 | The Love Boat | Episode: "The Captain's Cup/Folks from Home/Legal Eagle" | |
1979 | The Love Boat | Episode: "A Funny Valentine/The Wallflower/Home Is Not a Home" | |
1983 | The Love Boat | Episode: "Bricker's Boy/Lotions of Love/The Hustlers" |
References
- ^ Gamerman, Ellen. "'Viagara Falls' Star Bernie Kopell on 'Love Boat' Reunions and Little Blue Pills". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ "Who Keeps Love Boat's Doc, Bernie Kopell, on An Even Keel? A Mogul Wife Named Yolanda". People. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ a b "Bernie Kopell profile". FilmReference.com.
- ^ a b Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earl (2003). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present (8th ed.). New York: Ballantine Books. pp. 460, 705. ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4.
- ^ "Bernie Kopell: Siegfried confesses 'I've been very lucky'". Baltimore Post-Examiner. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ "Ex-Iowa sailors salute the ship as it makes its final port call". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
- ^ The Love Boat at IMDb
- ^ a b c d Bernie Kopell at IMDb
- ^ James Brent (2017-01-25), D-Snore Commercial, retrieved 2018-01-25
- ^ "Late Show with David Letterman". TV.com.
- ^ "Today in Dementia History Datebook". Archived from the original on 2010-08-30.
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