Bernard Fein

Bernard Fein was an American actor, television producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for co-creating and associate producing the 1960s television sitcom Hogan's Heroes; a show which he also occasionally wrote for, including the pilot episode. He directed only one film, the 1974 movie View from the Loft. As an actor Fein's first big break came in 1955 when he landed the recurring role of Pvt. Gomez on Sergeant Bilko which he portrayed through 1959. He appeared regularly as a guest actor on numerous programs from 1959 through 1967 on such shows as The Untouchables, Sea Hunt, Lawman, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone and The F.B.I.. He also appeared in a handful of films during this time including The Facts of Life and Robin and the 7 Hoods, among others. Fein is portrayed by Kyle S. More in the 2022 Paramount+ miniseries, The Offer, and by Greg Grunberg later that year in the motion picture, The Fabelmans.

Works

View from the Loft

Young Linda Channing visits her fiancé Ian Faulkner at an old aristocratic residence near London. Here he witnesses several mysterious murders. There are no clues to these murders - only bloody corpses and the terrifying sound that always comes shortly before the murders. Inspector Mark Santini embarks on the investigation and slowly unfolds a story full of old wrongs and terrifying revelations...

Release Date: 1974-07-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

6.5

The Forgotten Man

A Marine officer reported as killed in Vietnam, but who was actually a POW, returns home. Instead of being welcomed home, however, he discovers that his father has died, his wife has remarried, his daughter has been adopted, his business has been sold, and his life has completely changed.

Release Date: 1971-09-14

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 2

5.6

Body Fever

Set in the sordid underworld of drug trafficking and prostitutes, this story involves Charlie Smith, private eye, whose job it is to find Carrie Friskine and fast! Carrie, a cat burglar, has ripped off the ring-leader of a drug racket and now he's after her blood.

Release Date: 1969-01-01

Character: Big Mack

Vote Count: 5

Felony Squad
6.4

Felony Squad

Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.

Release Date: 1966-09-12

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

The F.B.I.
5.5

The F.B.I.

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.

Release Date: 1965-09-19

Character: Andy Morton

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 23

Hogan's Heroes
7.5

Hogan's Heroes

Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.

Release Date: 1965-09-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 161

6.0

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.

Release Date: 1964-06-24

Character: Charlie Bananas

Vote Count: 70

Sam Benedict
6.0

Sam Benedict

Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman. Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer Jacob W. "Jake" Erlich, who served as technical consultant for the series.

Release Date: 1962-09-15

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 2

5.8

Man-Trap

Helmed by Edmond O'Brien, this slick crime thriller stars Jeffrey Hunter as naïve Matt Jameson, whose Korean War pal Vince Biskay talks Matt into helping commandeer nearly $4 million from a Central American dictator. After Vince is wounded in a gun battle as they're making off with the loot, the duo holes up at Matt's house -- where his boozy, promiscuous wife puts the moves on Vince.

Release Date: 1961-09-20

Character: Fat Man

Vote Count: 15

Cain's Hundred
4.7

Cain's Hundred

A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.

Release Date: 1961-09-19

Character: Ben Kilrea

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

Tallahassee 7000

Tallahassee 7000

Release Date: 1961-01-24

Episode Count: 1

The Murder Men

Melodrama of the attempt to smash a drug ring and to promote a former addict singer's rehabilitation. Edited from TV series, Cain's Hundred

Release Date: 1961-01-01

The Roaring 20's

The Roaring 20's

The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.

Release Date: 1960-10-15

Episode Count: 1

Thriller
6.3

Thriller

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.

Release Date: 1960-09-13

Character: I.L. Gluckman

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 17

The Tall Man
6.3

The Tall Man

The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five episodes on NBC from 1960 to 1962, filmed by Revue Productions.

Release Date: 1960-09-10

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

Coronado 9
6.0

Coronado 9

Dan Adams, former Naval Intelligence officer, works in San Diego as a private detective.

Release Date: 1960-09-06

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

5.9

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.

Release Date: 1960-02-03

Character: Frenchy La Marr (uncredited)

Vote Count: 20

Johnny Midnight

Johnny Midnight

Johnny Midnight is an American crime drama that aired for one season in syndicated from January to December 1960. The series stars Edmond O'Brien as the title character.

Release Date: 1960-01-03

Character: Ravioli

Episode Count: 2

Mr. Lucky
6.4

Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June 18, 1960, with repeats until September 3. Blake Edwards developed the program as a retooling of his Willie Dante character from Four Star Playhouse, where the role was played by studio boss Dick Powell. In the 1960–1961 season, Howard Duff assumed the role of Willie Dante in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. Mr. Edwards directed and co-wrote the first episode of Mr. Lucky, and the credits of the first eighteen episodes included "Entire production supervised by Blake Edwards." Jack Arnold produced the show and directed fifteen of the thirty-four episodes. Henry Mancini's smooth theme music for the show reached Number 21 in the US singles charts. He released two successful LP's based on the show, Mr. Lucky and Mr. Lucky Goes Latin.

Release Date: 1959-10-24

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

Not for Hire

Not for Hire

Release Date: 1959-10-23

Episode Count: 1

The Detectives
5.6

The Detectives

The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture star Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television.

Release Date: 1959-10-16

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 7

The Alaskans
5.5

The Alaskans

The Alaskans is a 1959-1960 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series set during the late 1890s in the port of Skagway, Alaska. The show features Roger Moore as "Silky Harris" and Jeff York as "Reno McKee", a pair of adventurers intent on swindling travelers bound for the Yukon Territories during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Their plans are inevitably complicated by the presence of singer "Rocky Shaw", "an entertainer with a taste for the finer things in life". The show was the first regular work on American television for the British actor Roger Moore.

Release Date: 1959-10-04

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

The Twilight Zone
8.4

The Twilight Zone

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

Release Date: 1959-10-02

Character: Heckler

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 914

The Third Man
6.7

The Third Man

Release Date: 1959-10-02

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

Deadline
6.0

Deadline

Deadline is a 1959-1961 American television drama series that re-enacted famous newspaper stories from the past. Hosted and narrated by Paul Stewart, the syndicated series was produced by Arnold Perl. Guest stars included Peter Falk, Diane Ladd, Robert Lansing, and George Maharis. Thirty-nine 30-minute episodes were produced.

Release Date: 1959-09-17

Character: Harvey

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Johnny Staccato
5.6

Johnny Staccato

Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960.

Release Date: 1959-09-10

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

The Lawless Years
7.0

The Lawless Years

The Lawless Years is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from April 16 1959, to September 22, 1961. The series is the first of its kind set set during the Roaring 20s, having predated ABC's far more successful The Untouchables by six months. The series stars James Gregory and Robert Karnes.

Release Date: 1959-04-16

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

77 Sunset Strip
6.7

77 Sunset Strip

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.

Release Date: 1958-10-10

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 22

Naked City
5.5

Naked City

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.

Release Date: 1958-09-30

Character: Dasher

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 11

Sea Hunt
6.5

Sea Hunt

Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced. It stars Lloyd Bridges as ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson, and was produced by Ivan Tors.

Release Date: 1958-01-04

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 16

Perry Mason
7.7

Perry Mason

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Release Date: 1957-09-21

Character: Foreman

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 123

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Release Date: 1955-10-02

Character: Marty

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 224

The Ed Sullivan Show
6.6

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

Release Date: 1948-06-20

Character: Self

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 20

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