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Genial character comedian Bernie Kopell is undoubtedly best known as Dr. Adam Bricker, doling out sage advice on TV's The Love Boat (1977) for its entire run of ten seasons and 250 episodes. He once described the experience as "a paid vacation. We got to be in 98 countries". While this may have been his longest engagement on a series, his most memorable comic creation remains the iconic Siegfried in Get Smart (1965).

Bernie was born in Brooklyn, of Ukrainian and Jewish ancestry, as Bernard Morton Kopell to Abraham Bernard Kopell (1905-1965) and his wife Pauline (née Taran, 1911-2011). After finishing high school, he studied at New York University, graduating in 1955 with a bachelor of fine arts.

A year later, Bernie was drafted into the U.S. Navy, happily accepting the opportunity to serve as librarian at the Naval Operations Base, the Naval Air Station at Norfolk, Virginia, and (between 1956-57), aboard the World War II battleship U.S.S. Iowa. He later quipped "I got to read more books than I'd gotten to read at NYU, so it was just a glorious thing for me."

Back in New York after demobilization, Bernie was invited to Los Angeles by fellow NYU alumnus James Drury (of The Virginian (1962) fame). His first agent turned him down for being 'not handsome enough to be a leading man, not ugly enough to be a heavy.' For a while, he earned a crust as a taxi driver and vacuum cleaner salesman. A chance audition for casting director Marilyn Howard (then Marilyn Bodgen) then led to a small part in an early CBS daytime soap, The Brighter Day (1954), as a Cuban bad guy named Pablo. Bernie's aptitude for dialects impressed TV execs to the extent that he found himself typecast as Mexicans or Puerto Ricans in episodes of The Danny Thomas Show (1953), The Jack Benny Program (1950), My Favorite Martian (1963) and The Flying Nun (1967). Ultimately, his innate ability to bring levity to any scene earned him numerous guest starring turns on sitcoms like McHale's Navy (1962), The Lucy Show (1962), Petticoat Junction (1963), The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Run Buddy Run (1966) and Green Acres (1965).

At the age of 33, Bernie got his first big break, cast as KAOS chief Siegfried in Get Smart by executive producer Leonard Stern. This character, replete with leather jacket, neat moustache and Heidelberg duelling scar, was essentially the primary nemesis of Control agents 86 and 99. Bernie, by his own admission, adopted Siegfried's German accent from an Austrian psychiatrist he was visiting at the time. The character became so popular with fans that the actor would often be asked to sign autographs with the catchphrase "we don't shush at KAOS, Shtarker". A classic line from the episode 'Rub-a-Dub-Dub... Three Spies in a Sub' has Siegfried explaining to Don Adams "As you go through the world of espionage Shmart, you will find that there are the good guys and the bad guys. I happen to be one of the bad guys."

In between Get Smart and Love Boat, Bernie alternated dramatic roles with comic ones, appearing in a wide variety of shows, ranging from Night Gallery (1969) (as a TV executive), Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) (Dr. Gravanites) and the live-action CBS children's sitcom The Ghost Busters (1975) (as Dr. Frankenstein) to the Mel Brooks spoof of Robin Hood, When Things Were Rotten (1975) (a recurring role as Alan-a-Dale). He appeared in nine episodes of Bewitched (1964), variously as the ancient Postlethwaite, aka Mr. Apothecary, the hippie warlock Alonzo, psychiatrists Chomsky and Rhinehouse and the Siegfried clone Baron von Fuchs). Bernie also had a co-starring role in a short-lived 1973 sitcom, Needles and Pins (1973), as a salesman for a ladies' clothing manufacturer in New York. His more recent appearances have included an ill-fated men's room attendant in Monk (2002), a coroner in Charmed (1998), a hayseed in My Name Is Earl (2005), a Holocaust survivor in Hawaii Five-0 (2010) and a senior citizen in the medical sitcom B Positive (2020).

For the stage, Bernie has appeared in Los Angeles productions of Death of a Salesman, and, as a Russian peddler, in The 49th Cousin. He had a leading role as Lenny Ganz in the Neil Simon farce Rumors at the Whitefire Theatre, Sherman Oaks (1996-97). As late as 2022, he headlined off-Broadway, alongside Hal Linden, as biblical characters Lou and Bud in Ed. Weinberger's comedy play, Two Jews Talking. Seemingly impervious to age, Bernie continues make regular appearances in films and on TV, albeit in smaller supporting roles. He is an avid tennis player and has hosted pro-celebrity tennis and golf tournaments with proceeds benefiting the Alzheimer's Association.

(2002) TV commercial (as &quot;Siegfried&quot;, his character from <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0058805/?ref_=nmwrk">Get Smart (1965)</a>): &quot;Get Smart&quot; watch.

(2002) Appeared as Siegfried, his character from <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0058805/?ref_=nmwrk">Get Smart (1965)</a>, in a commercial for a &quot;Get Smart&quot; marathon.

(2005) TV commercial: United States Pharmaceutical Group LLC.

(11/15/06-2/10/07) Stage: Appeared in &quot;Leading Ladies&quot;, New Theatre Restaurant, Overland Park, KS.

(1987) TV commercial: CigArrest stop smoking plan.

(2014) TV commercial: Shriners Hospitals for Children, with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0001458/?ref_=nmwrk">Cloris Leachman</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0692850/?ref_=nmwrk">Markie Post</a>, and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0001835/?ref_=nmwrk">Carl Weathers</a>.

(1983) Stage: Appeared in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0348672/?ref_=nmwrk">A.R. Gurney</a>&#39;s play, &quot;The Dining Room,&quot; at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, MA, with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0083714/?ref_=nmwrk">Reed Birney</a> in the cast.

(8/83) Stage: Appeared in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0348672/?ref_=nmwrk">A.R. Gurney</a>&#39;s play, &quot;The Dining Room,&quot; at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, ME.

Stage: Appeared in &quot;Wedding Breakfast&quot;, Players RIng Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.

(November 15, 2006 to February 10, 2007) He played Doc in Ken Ludwig&#39;s play, &quot;Leading Ladies,&quot; at the New Theatre Restaurant in Overland Park, Kansas with Jennifer Mays (Meg); Brian Paulette (Duncan); Nathan Darrow (Leo); David Fritts (Jack); Natalie Hiatt (Audrey); Dylan Hilpman (Butch) and Joicie Appell (Florence) in the cast. Richard Carrothers and Dennis D. Hennessy were artistic directors. Richard Carrothers was also director. Joe R. Fox III was producer. Randy B. Winder was lighting designer. Keith Brumley was scenic designer. Mary Traylor was costume designer. Deborah Morgan was properties designer. Roger Stoddard was sound designer. Ryan K. Klein was company manager. Kathy Stengel was stage manager. Duane A. Hoberg was technical director. Eddie Ocheskey was resident technician. Richey F. Clark was audio engineer. Charlie Ream was master carpenter. Melissa Legg and J. Matthew Bennett were swing technicians. Jim Misenheimer was associate technical director.

(Summer 1982) He acted in Bernard Slade&#39;s play, &quot;Romantic Comedy,&quot; in a Cherry County Playhouse production under the Dome at the Park Palace in Traverse City, Michigan. Pat Paulsen and Neil Rosen were artistic directors.

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