1. Bernard Terry Casey was an American professional football player and actor.
21 Facts About Bernie Casey
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Bernie Casey was a football player and All-American hurdler at Bowling Green State University, before playing professionally as a wide receiver in the National Football League, first for the San Francisco 49ers and then the Los Angeles Rams.
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Bernie Casey made his acting debut in the Western film Guns of the Magnificent Seven.
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Bernie Casey won an NAACP Image Award for his portrayal of basketball player Maurice Stokes in the biographical film Maurie.
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Bernie Casey played Felix Leiter in the non-EON James Bond film Never Say Never Again and starred in the miniseries Roots: The Next Generations.
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Bernie Casey was born in Wyco, West Virginia, the son of Flossie and Frank Leslie Bernie Casey.
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Bernie Casey graduated from East High School in Columbus, Ohio.
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Bernie Casey was a record-breaking hurdler for Bowling Green State University and helped the 1959 football team win a small college national championship.
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Bernie Casey earned All-America recognition and a trip to the finals at the US Olympic Trials in 1960.
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Bernie Casey was the ninth overall selection of the 1961 NFL draft, taken by the San Francisco 49ers.
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Bernie Casey played eight NFL seasons : six with the 49ers and two with the Los Angeles Rams.
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Bernie Casey began his acting career in the film Guns of the Magnificent Seven, a sequel to The Magnificent Seven.
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Bernie Casey played a leading role in the 1972 science fiction TV film Gargoyles.
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Bernie Casey played Tamara Dobson's love interest in 1973's Cleopatra Jones.
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In 1981, Bernie Casey played a detective opposite Burt Reynolds in the feature film Sharky's Machine, directed by Reynolds.
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Bernie Casey appeared in Revenge of the Nerds and had a comedic role as Colonel Rhombus in the John Landis film Spies Like Us.
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Bernie Casey played a version of himself, and other football players turned actors, in Keenen Ivory Wayans's 1988 comedic film I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.
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Bernie Casey appeared as a very influential prisoner with outside connections in Walter Hill's Another 48 Hrs.
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In 1994, Bernie Casey guest-starred in a two-episode story arc in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the Maquis leader Lieutenant Commander Cal Hudson, and in 1995 as a guest-star on both SeaQuest 2032 as Admiral VanAlden and Babylon 5 as Derek Cranston.
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Bernie Casey's lasting acting role was in the low-budget horror film Vegas Vampires, directed by fellow football player-turned-blaxploitation icon Fred Williamson.
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Bernie Casey died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on September 19,2017, after a stroke.