Biography for
Bert Convy

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Date of Birth

23 July 1933, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Date of Death

15 July 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA (brain tumor)

Birth Name

Bernard Whalen Convy

Height

6' 1" (1.85 m)

Spouse

Catherine Hall	(14 February 1991 - 15 July 1991) (his death)
Anne Anderson	(1959 - 1987) (divorced) 3 children

Trivia

Father of three children, including Jennifer Convy and Jonah Convy.

Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA, Court of Liberty, left of sidewalk.

Convy played first base for a Philadelphia Phillies farm team before entering show business.

Was part of the 1950s pop group, The Cheers, along with Sue Allen and Gil Garfield. The trio had hit #6 with "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" in 1955.

Was slated as host of the new "Match Game" (1990) on ABC, but he became too ill and was replaced by Ross Shafer.

Attended the film program at UCLA.

1967: He was seriously considered for the role of Barnabas Collins on "Dark Shadows" (1966), but lost out to Jonathan Frid.

Two Broadway musicals he appeared in ("Fiddler on the Roof" and "Cabaret") were later recreated for cinema. In both instances, the characters he played were changed to non-singing parts.

In 1968 Convy was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. When police waded into the crowd outside his hotel beating them with billy clubs and truncheons, many of the demonstrators ran into the hotel to escape the beatings, and several found their way to Convy's room. Police burst into his room, beat the demonstrators bloody, arrested them and hauled them off to jail (whre many were beaten yet again). Convy, horrified at the unprovoked and vicious assaults and enraged at the police's kicking in his hotel room door, showed up at the jail, passed himself off as the demonstrators' lawyer and demanded that they be released immediately. He caused such a ruckus that just to get rid of him, the police turned over 17 of the demonstrators to him before they could be charged with anything.

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