Bert Convy

Bert Convy Headshot

Game Show Host • Actor • Singer

Birth Date: July 23, 1933

Death Date: July 15, 1991

Birth Place: St. Louis, Missouri

Amiable, curly-haired musical comedy performer and game-show host who started out as a first baseman with the Philadelphia Phillies' farm club one day after graduating from high school. He played for two years before quitting to perform with a rock band called the Cheers. Convy appeared in ten Broadway shows, most notably as the Christopher Isherwood character in the Kander and Ebb musical "Cabaret," as the intellectual revolutionary Perchik in the Bock-Harnick musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and as ace reporter Hildy Johnson in the 1969 Robert Ryan revival of "The Front Page."

Convy was perhaps best known as the affable host of such game shows as "Tattletales," "Win, Lose or Draw" and "Super Password" which kept him visible on U.S. TV sets through the 1970s and '80s.

Credits

Weekend Warriors

Director
Movie
1986

Murder, She WroteStream

Guest Star
Christopher Bundy
Series
1984

Super PasswordStream

Host
Game Show
1984

Ama a Tu Vecino

Actor
Movie
1984

Love Thy Neighbor

Actor
Mike Wilson
Movie
1984

Hotel

Guest Star
Soap
1983

Celebrity Daredevils

Self
Location host
Show
1983

Help Wanted: Male

Actor
Skip McCullough
Movie
1982

The Cannonball Run

Actor
Bradford Compton
Movie
1981
29%

Hero at LargeStream

Actor
Walter Reeves
Movie
1980

Password PlusStream

Guest
Game Show
1979

Hanging by a Thread

Actor
Alan Durant
Movie
1979

Racquet

Actor
Tommy Everett
Movie
1979

Dallas Cowboys CheerleadersStream

Actor
Lyman Spencer
Movie
1979

The Man in the Santa Claus Suit

Actor
Gil Travis
Movie
1979

Ebony, Ivory and Jade

Actor
Mick Jade
Movie
1979

The Comedy ShopStream

Guest
Series
1978

Fantasy Island

Guest Star
Series
1978

Jennifer

Actor
Jeff Reed
Movie
1978

Jennifer: The Snake Goddess

Actor
Jeff Reed
Movie
1978

Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

Actor
Bill Dent
Movie
1978

SST: Death Flight

Actor
Tim Vernon
Movie
1977

The Love Boat II

Actor
Ralph Manning
Movie
1977

Semi-ToughStream

Actor
Friedrich Bismark
Movie
1977

Charlie's AngelsStream

Guest Star
Series
1976

Good Heavens

Guest Star
Show
1976

TattletalesStream

Guest
Game Show
1974

TattletalesStream

Host
Game Show
1974

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

Actor
F.J. Allen
Movie
1974

Oh! Baby, Baby, Baby...

Actor
Rick Stoner
Movie
1974

The Snoop Sisters

Actor
Lt. Steve Ostrowski
Series
1973

Police StoryStream

Actor
Series
1973

Match Game

Self
Game Show
1973

Banacek

Guest Star
Douglas Ruderman
Series
1972

Project Phoenix

Actor
Douglas Ruderman
Movie
1972

McMillan & Wife

Guest Star
Derek Quigley
Series
1971

Death Takes a Holiday

Actor
John Cummings
Movie
1971

Night GalleryStream

Actor
Series
1970

Night GalleryStream

Guest Star
Series
1970

The Partridge FamilyStream

Guest Star
Dr. Whelander
Series
1970

The Mary Tyler Moore ShowStream

Guest Star
Jack Foster
Series
1970

The Interns

Guest Star
Show
1970

Give Her the Moon

Actor
Broderick MacPower
Movie
1970

Love, American Style

Actor
Herbie
Series
1969

Love, American Style

Guest Star
Leonard Stilp
Series
1969

Hawk

Guest Star
Show
1966

The Cliff Dwellers

Actor
Frank Saxon
Show
1966

BewitchedStream

Guest Star
Paul Revere
Series
1964

East Side West Side

Guest Star
Series
1963

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonStream

Guest
Talk
1962

Father of the Bride

Guest Star
Series
1961

Susan SladeStream

Actor
Wells Corbett
Movie
1961

The Untouchables

Guest Star
Series
1959

Una Cubeta de Sangre

Actor
Movie
1959

A Bucket of BloodStream

Actor
Lou Raby
Movie
1959
71%

77 Sunset Strip

Guest Star
Blake Catto
Series
1958

Gunman's WalkStream

Actor
Paul Chouard (uncredited)
Movie
1958

Perry MasonStream

Guest Star
Harry Thompson
Series
1957

The Silent Service

Actor
Driving Officer
Show
1957

Alfred Hitchcock PresentsStream

Actor
Ben Hollister
Series
1955

Love of Life

Actor
Glenn Hamilton
Soap
1951

What's My Line?Stream

Guest
Game Show
1950