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Bert Convy is remembered not only as an actor, but also as an on-point TV personality. He also packed some punches as a singer and dancer. While that was the case, Convy found himself on a completely different career path, namely athletics, before taking the right turn in the right direction.

He is best known as the host of the syndicated game show Tattletales from 1975 to 1977. But long before he added game show host to his resume, he was already a renowned entertainer with experience in stage, film and television, as well as being a recording artist. Find out more about him: CV, career and other important areas of his life.

Bert Convy’s bio

The multi-talented entertainer was born on 23. July 1933 in St. Louis Missouri, USA to Bernard Fleming Convy and Monica Convy (née Whalen). He was of American nationality and his name was Bernard Whalen Convy. Seven years after his birth, he moved to Los Angeles with his family, where he attended North Hollywood High School. He had a very active childhood, engaging in a range of activities including sports. This was evident in high school, where he showed elite athletics. No wonder he was offered a contract by the MLB’s Philadelphia Phillies when he was just 17 years old.

He had a two-season stint (1951-1952) in their minor league system before finally deciding on a career in showbiz, starting as a singer before moving up into acting, producing, directing and hosting. He enrolled at the prestigious UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, where he earned a bachelor’s degree and joined the 1950s vocal band The Cheers while still at school.

Bert Convy began acting on stage in 1956 in the musical The Billy Barnes Revues, which also highlighted his talent as a singer and dancer. He then appeared on the big screen with A Bucket of Blood (1959), also appeared on television and played a number of guest roles on shows such as Perry Mason, 77 Sunset Strip, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents Convy then moved to New York City and returned to Broadway in 1962, appearing in shows such as Fiddlers on the Roof (1964), The Impossible Years (1965) and Cabaret (1966), where he created a fictional Christopher Isherwood character named Cliff.

While Bert Convy was on the rise as a stage actor, he continued his success on television as well. He has appeared on the CBS soap opera Lust for Life as a rapist named Glenn Hamilton and on many other shows including Harrigan and Son, The Mary Tyler Moore Show,Hawaii Five-O, The Snoop Sisters, Bewitched, The Partridge Family, Mission : Impossible, The Silent Force, The New Phil Silvers Show, Fantasy Island, Charlie’s Angels and Murder She Wrote After establishing himself on television, Convy hosted various hit game shows such as Super Password, Matchplay, Tattletales, and Win, Lose or Draw.He won an Emmy Award for Best Game Show Host in 1977 for his work on Tattletales.

Already a man of many talents, the hit of the celebrity couples daytime show, Tattletale presented him with many opportunities. Convy started a short-lived strain series called The Late Summer-Early Fall Bert Convy Show in 1976. In the ’80s, he formed a production company with Burt Reynolds called Burt and Bert Productions. Her company produced the game shows Win, Lose or Draw and the syndicated 3rd Degree.

He also landed more roles in films, television and on stage with credits that included Semi-Tough (1977), where he portrayed a cartoon by Werner Erhard named Friedrich Bismark. Others include the musical Nine Jennifer (1978) The Man in the Santa Suit (1979), Hero on the Large (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981), and the TV movies SST: Flight of Death (1977) Hanging by a String and Bat 1979 Help Wanted: Male (1982) and Love Your Neighbor in 1984.

In addition, Bert Convy has also had several scene roles on projects such as the Goodspeed Opera House premiere of the musical Zapata, on which he served as producer and director in 1980 and also directed the comedy Weekend Fighter Along with his then-wife Anne Anderson, Convy created the short-lived family sitcom in 1983 It’s not easy that took parenthood in modern times. It starred Ken Howard, Carlene Watkins, Convy and famed comedian Jayne Meadows.

wife and children

Bert Convy was married twice during his lifetime. His first connection was with Anne Anderson, to whom he tied the knot in 1959 and to whom he was married until 1991, when they divorced. They had three children: Jennifer, Joshua and Jonah. Convy remarried to Catherine Hills shortly after his divorce and a few months before his death.

Is he dead or still alive?

Convy died on July 15, 1991 in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA Last year he was diagnosed with a brain tumor after collapsing at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center while visiting his mother who was having a stroke. He was buried at Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery at the age of 57.

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