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Bert Convy is a Actor and Director American born on 23 july 1933 at St. Louis (USA)

Bert Convy

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Birth name Bernard Whalen Convy
Nationality USA
Birth 23 july 1933 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 15 july 1991 (at 57 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Emmy Award, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host

Bernard Whalen "Bert" Convy (July 23, 1933 – July 15, 1991) was an American actor, singer, game show host and panelist known for his tenure as the host for Tattletales, Super Password, and Win, Lose or Draw.

Biography

Convy was married twice. He married Anne Anderson in 1959 with whom he had three children: Jennifer, Joshua, and Jonah. Convy and Anderson divorced in 1991. Convy married his second wife, Catherine Hills, five months before his death.

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Delmer Daves
Delmer Daves
(1 films)
Dore Schary
Dore Schary
(1 films)
Hal Needham
Hal Needham
(1 films)
Roger Corman
Roger Corman
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Bert Convy (13 films)

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Actor

The Cannonball Run, 1h35
Directed by Hal Needham
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Jackie Chan, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
Roles Brad
Rating61% 3.099263.099263.099263.099263.09926
Race teams have gathered in Connecticut to start a cross-country car race. One at a time, teams drive up to the starters' stand, punch a time card to indicate their time of departure, then take off.
Hero at Large, 1h38
Directed by Martin Davidson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Films about television, Superhero films
Actors John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy, Kevin McCarthy, Allan Rich, Harry Bellaver
Roles Walter Reeves
Rating59% 2.953182.953182.953182.953182.95318
Steve Nichols is a struggling actor in New York City who takes the job posing as comic-book hero Captain Avenger at comics stores and conventions. He finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger. The costume is for a film he is hired to promote, but Nichols decides to continue being a superhero and discovers that the superhero life is more complex than he initially thought.
Hanging by a Thread, 3h10
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Patty Duke, Joyce Bulifant, Oliver Clark, Bert Convy, Burr DeBenning, Donna Mills
Roles Alan Durant
Rating57% 2.869022.869022.869022.869022.86902
Un groupe d'amis est piégé dans un téléphérique en panne au dessus d'un ravin alors qu'un terrible orage se prépare. Le personnel et les autorités font leur possible pour sauver la vie des passagers.
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit, 1h44
Directed by Corey Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Christmas films
Actors Fred Astaire, Gary Burghoff, John Byner, Bert Convy, Tara Buckman, Brooke Bundy
Roles Gil Travis
Rating64% 3.2432453.2432453.2432453.2432453.243245
The mysterious owner of a New York costume store (Astaire) sells Santa suits to three different men. He later shows up in various roles to help the men change their lives. (chauffeur, policeman, jeweler, hot dog vendor, taxi driver, floor walker, and choral director) Bob Willis (Burghoff) is a math teacher who is madly in love with a young fashion model and prominent figure in the disco scene, Polly Primer (Buckman). Polly, however, is already engaged to marry wealthy and handsome Rod Sanborn (Greenan). He hopes to impress her by showing up in a santa suit, but withdraws when he learns of Rod's marriage proposal to her. Polly is not sure to marry Rod and hints to Bob that she longs for being swept away by another guy, but Bob is too shy to act on it. Realizing he would lose her forever to Rod, he interrupts her at a fashion show and tells her he loves her. Polly then reveals having fallen in love with him ever since he first spoke about math, and she accepts his marriage proposal.
Jennifer
Jennifer (1978)
, 1h30
Directed by Brice Mack
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about snakes
Actors Lisa Pelikan, Bert Convy, Nina Foch, John Gavin, Jeff Corey, Wesley Eure
Roles Jeff Reed
Rating54% 2.7143252.7143252.7143252.7143252.714325
Jenifer Baylor (Lisa Pelikan) is a poor, red-headed young woman from West Virginia. Jennifer possesses a power over snakes, an ability to control them and communicate with them. She and her father, Luke Baylor (Jeff Corey), left their home in disgrace, because when Jennifer was around the age of seven, some snakes she had been handling killed the town preacher's son. She refused to handle snakes ever again, though Luke now runs a pet store and often encourages her to use her power again. Luke is mentally disabled, unable to make meals for himself without burning them, and relies on Jennifer since his wife died. While Luke does run the pet store, he spends most of the time in a back room, listening to Christian radio.
Semi-Tough
Semi-Tough (1977)
, 1h48
Directed by Michael Ritchie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, American football films, Buddy films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Lotte Lenya, Bert Convy
Roles Friedrich Bismarck
Rating58% 2.949012.949012.949012.949012.94901
Wide receiver Marvin "Shake" Tiller and running back Billy Clyde Puckett are football buddies who play for a Miami pro team owned by Big Ed Bookman (Preston). Bookman's daughter Barbara Jane is roommates with both men, and the film depicts a subtle love triangle relationship between Barbara Jane and her two friends. She initially has romantic feelings for Shake, who has become more self-confident after taking self-improvement training from seminar leader Friedrich Bismark. The program is called Bismark Earthwalk Action Training, or B.E.A.T. After Shake completes his course, he and Barbara Jane sleep together and start a relationship. Barbara Jane is not a follower of B.E.A.T., and Shake is warned by his leader Bismark that "mixed marriages don't work.
SST: Death Flight, 1h29
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Barbara Anderson, Peter Graves, Bert Convy, Lorne Greene, Tina Louise, Season Hubley
Roles Tim Vernon
Rating41% 2.074462.074462.074462.074462.07446
On the flight of Maiden 1, the first American supersonic transport, Captain Jim Walsh (Robert Reed) is the assigned pilot on an attempt to set a world speed record from New York to Paris. The flight crew includes the navigator (Robert Ito), stewardess Mae (Tina Louise) and steward (Billy Crystal). The select group on the ceremonial first flight include passengers and executives. On board is Willy Basset (Burgess Meredith), the designer of the SST, Tim Vernon (Bert Convy), the Cutlass Airlines head of publicity who is having an affair with "Miss SST" Angela Garland (Misty Rowe), the model who is the public face of the new aircraft. Hank Fairbanks (Doug McClure), an ex-pilot who now works for an airline group in South America as an aircraft buyer, accompanies the other VIPs, and wants to renew an earlier romance with Mae.
Give Her the Moon, 1h32
Directed by Philippe de Broca
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Marthe Keller, Philippe Noiret, Bert Convy, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Valentina Cortese, Henri Crémieux
Roles Broderick MacPower
Rating57% 2.898412.898412.898412.898412.89841
Une jeune femme veut voir le vaste monde . Un beau milliardaire yankee veut l'épouser mais elle aime l'instituteur du village. Tant pis, le village voyagera lui aussi avant que de revenir où il fut bâti ...
Act One
Act One (1963)
, 1h50
Directed by Dore Schary
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors George Hamilton, Jason Robards, Jack Klugman, Sam Levene, Ruth Ford, Eli Wallach
Roles Archie Leach
Rating59% 2.953832.953832.953832.953832.95383
In 1929 young Brooklynite Moss Hart, influenced by the great playwrights, devotes his leisure time to writing for the theater. Failing in his aspirations, however, he accepts a job as social director in the Catskills and then stages plays at the YMHA in Newark. Eventually he takes the advice of agent Richard Maxwell and writes a comedy, Once in a Lifetime, which deals with the early days of Hollywood films, despite the fact that his knowledge of the movie industry is derived from the pages of Variety. After being subsidized by a friend, Joe Hyman, he sends the manuscript to producer Warren Stone, who promises a decision within a week. When months pass without any word, Hart's friends sneak a copy of the play to Sam Harris, who agrees to produce it if George Kaufman will collaborate on the script and also direct. Although Kaufman consents, the Atlantic City opening is a failure, and he considers quitting until Hart comes up with an idea that both men feel will turn the play into a hit. It finally opens to rave reviews in New York City in September 1930, thus beginning the long-lasting Kaufman-Hart collaboration.
Susan Slade, 1h56
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Connie Stevens, Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Lloyd Nolan, Brian Aherne, Grant Williams
Roles Wells Corbett
Rating62% 3.146413.146413.146413.146413.14641
The plot revolves around a naive 17-year-old girl, Susan Slade (Connie Stevens), who becomes pregnant during a shipboard romance with Conn White, a mountain climber (Grant Williams). Her parents decide that it is best for Susan to allow them to pass the baby off as theirs to protect her reputation. Feeling helpless, Susan reluctantly agrees to pretend to be the baby's older sister. Later, two suitors, Hoyt Brecker (Troy Donahue) and Wells Corbett (Bert Convy) court Susan, not knowing that she is a mother. Susan increasingly struggles with the lie she is living with and finds it difficult to keep up the charade especially with the new love in her life.
A Bucket of Blood, 1h6
Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about writers, Comedy horror films
Actors Dick Miller, Ed Nelson, Bert Convy, Antony Carbone, Bruno VeSota
Roles Lou Raby
Rating66% 3.3477853.3477853.3477853.3477853.347785
One night after hearing the words of Maxwell H. Brock (Julian Burton), a poet who performs at The Yellow Door cafe, the dimwitted, impressionable, busboy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) returns home to attempt to create a sculpture of the face of the hostess Carla (Barboura Morris). He stops when he hears the meowing of Frankie, the cat owned by his inquisitive landlady, Mrs. Surchart (Myrtle Vail), who has somehow gotten himself stuck in Walter's wall. Walter attempts to get Frankie out using a knife, but accidentally kills the cat when he sticks the knife into his wall. Instead of giving Frankie a proper burial, Walter covers the cat in clay, leaving the knife stuck in it.
Gunman's Walk, 1h37
Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Crosby, James Darren, Mickey Shaughnessy, Robert F. Simon
Roles Paul Chouard
Rating69% 3.493023.493023.493023.493023.49302
Davy Hackett (James Darren) and his hot-tempered, arrogant older brother Ed (Tab Hunter) are about to assist their rancher father Lee (Van Heflin) on a cattle drive to Wyoming. The brothers meet Cecily "Clee" Chouard (Kathryn Grant), a beautiful half-French, half-Sioux woman, and when Ed makes unwanted advances toward her, Davy intervenes.

Director

Weekend Warriors, 1h29
Directed by Bert Convy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Musical
Themes Military humor in film, Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Chris Lemmon, Matt McCoy, Vic Tayback, Graham Jarvis, Lloyd Bridges, Mark L. Taylor
Rating43% 2.1795152.1795152.1795152.1795152.179515
In 1961, with war looming in Berlin, an Air National Guard unit of actors, journalists and studio personnel should pass an inspection to save themselves from transferred to war front.