32 Facts About Bert Convy

Bernard Whalen "Bert" Convy was an American actor, singer, game-show panelist, and host known for Tattletales, Super Password, and Win, Lose or Draw.

Bert Convy's family moved to Los Angeles when he was 7 years old.

Bert Convy later attended North Hollywood High School, where he was an all-around athlete.

Bert Convy later joined the 1950s vocal band The Cheers, who had a top-10 hit in 1955 with "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots".

Bert Convy attended UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, where he received a bachelor's degree.

Bert Convy portrayed a CBS usher on Art Linkletter's House Party in 1956.

Bert Convy went on to become a Broadway actor, starring as Perchik in the original cast of Fiddler on the Roof, appearing in The Impossible Years, and creating the role of Cliff Bradshaw in Cabaret.

Bert Convy appeared in the Roger Corman film A Bucket of Blood, playing Lou Raby, and in the soap opera Love of Life, playing Glenn Hamilton, a rapist.

Bert Convy appeared on The Partridge Family, playing the role of politician Richard Lawrence in the 1972 episode "A Likely Candidate".

Bert Convy soon took the podium himself as host of several game shows, including the fourth edition of Password and Tattletales, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host in 1977.

Bert Convy hosted the syndicated edition of Win, Lose, or Draw for its first two seasons, then left the show to host another of his company's productions, the syndicated 3rd Degree.

In 1989, Bert Convy was called upon by Mark Goodson Productions again to host a week's worth of pilot episodes for a revival of Match Game that Goodson was attempting to sell to ABC.

Bert Convy was supposed to have been the host when the series made it to air in 1990, but had to drop out after being diagnosed with brain cancer.

Bert Convy turned to acting full-time in 1956 and was in the musical The Billy Barnes Revue in Los Angeles before moving to New York City.

Bert Convy appeared in 10 Broadway shows, including Nowhere to Go but Up, Cabaret, and The Impossible Years.

Bert Convy played reporter Hildy Johnson in a 1969 Broadway revival of The Front Page, which starred Robert Ryan.

Bert Convy filled in for Raul Julia in the lead role of Guido Contini in the Broadway musical Nine when Julia went on vacation.

Bert Convy guest-starred in an April 1960 episode of Perry Mason titled "The Case of the Nimble Nephew".

Bert Convy portrayed Roxy in the pilot episode of The New Phil Silvers Show in 1963, although the role went to Pat Renella for the remainder of the series' run.

Bert Convy was cast on an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Mary's friend Jack Foster, alongside future Alice star Beth Howland.

In 1973, Bert Convy was a guest star in two episodes of Hawaii Five-O.

In 1974, Bert Convy portrayed Lieutenant Steve Ostrowski, the police officer nephew of elderly amateur sleuths on the short-lived series The Snoop Sisters.

Convy attempted a short-lived variety series called The Late Summer Early Fall Bert Convy Show in 1976.

In 1983, Bert Convy was cast as Neil Townsend on the sitcom It's Not Easy, playing opposite Ken Howard.

Bert Convy starred in several movies, perhaps most memorably Semi-Tough, in which he played a caricature of Werner Erhard named Friedrich Bismark.

Bert Convy tried his hand at directing with the comedy Weekend Warriors.

In 1980, Bert Convy produced and directed the Goodspeed Musicals premiere of Zapata, with music and lyrics by Harry Nilsson and Perry Botkin Jr.

Bert Convy married Anne Anderson in 1959; together they had three children: Jennifer, Joshua, and Jonah.

Bert Convy married his second wife, Catherine Hills, five months before his death.

Bert Convy was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive and extremely deadly brain cancer, which forced him into retirement.

On July 15,1991, Bert Convy died at his home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, eight days before his 58th birthday.

Bert Convy is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles.