Bernard Terry Casey was an American actor, poet and professional American football player.
18 Facts About Bernie Casey
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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 reunited with Reynolds a few years later for the crime story Rent-a-Cop.
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Bernie Casey co-starred 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 played the national head of a black fraternity in 1984's Revenge of the Nerds.
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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 died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on September 19,2017, after a stroke.