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Bernard Fox, who went down with the Titanic twice, has died at the age of 89. Best remembered as Dr. Bombay, Warlock, MD, attending to the mystical medical needs of Samantha, Endora, Aunt Clara and Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and Col. Crittenden, the inept regular visitor who keeps having to break out of Stalag 17 on Hogan’s Heroes, Fox was the perfect, “Hey, it’s that limey,” on sitcoms throughout the 1960s and ‘70s. Somehow he ended up in Mayberry on The Andy Griffith Show, he showed Hawkeye the merits of tough love (and learned the risk of peritonitis from drinking tea in post op) on M*A*S*H, and visited Hazzard County to meet the Duke boys. The best thing about The Mummy series was that it gave Fox a fitting final tally ho as Captain Winston Havlock, World War I vet who manned an abandoned base in Egypt and gave his life to defeat Imhotep. He was in Titanic in 1997 and A Night to Remember in 1958, where he got to announce "Iceberg dead ahead, sir!" With his death, Bernie Kopell, the Apothecary, is the only surviving adult from Bewitched and Robert Clary and Nita Talbot are the only survivors from Hogan’s Heroes.
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(Kudos to Monty)Bernard Fox, who went down with the Titanic twice, has died at the age of 89. Best remembered as Dr. Bombay, Warlock, MD, attending to the mystical medical needs of Samantha, Endora, Aunt Clara and Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and Col. Crittenden, the inept regular visitor who keeps having to break out of Stalag 17 on Hogan’s Heroes, Fox was the perfect, “Hey, it’s that limey,” on sitcoms throughout the 1960s and ‘70s. Somehow he ended up in Mayberry on The Andy Griffith Show, he showed Hawkeye the merits of tough love (and learned the risk of peritonitis from drinking tea in post op) on M*A*S*H, and visited Hazzard County to meet the Duke boys. The best thing about The Mummy series was that it gave Fox a fitting final tally ho as Captain Winston Havlock, World War I vet who manned an abandoned base in Egypt and gave his life to defeat Imhotep. He was in Titanic in 1997 and A Night to Remember in 1958, where he got to announce "Iceberg dead ahead, sir!" With his death, Bernie Kopell, the Apothecary, is the only surviving adult from Bewitched and Robert Clary and Nita Talbot are the only survivors from Hogan’s Heroes.
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