Jason Bernard
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African-American character actor Jason Bernard is one of those performers who seems to have never been out of work. Bernard's cinematic stock-in-trade has been stern authority figures: the parole officer in Car Wash (1976), the Mayor in Blue Thunder (1983), Judge Bochco in The Star Chamber (1983), Major Donovan in No Way Out (1987), and so forth. Bernard has appeared numerous times on television as a guest star and as a recurring character. Some of his most famous TV roles include Preston Wade in the daytime drama Days of Our Lives, mechanical whiz Fletch in the 1983 prime-timer High Performance, and the chronically humorless publishing executive Mr. Paul Bracken in the 1991 Fox sitcom Herman's Head. For his supporting role in the Lifetime network movie Sophie and the Moonhanger (1995), Bernard received a Cable Ace nomination. His last feature-film role was that of a judge in the Jim Carrey comedy Liar, Liar (1997). On October 16, 1996, the 58-year-old Bernard was driving in Hollywood when he suffered a fatal heart attack.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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49% | Love and Other Drugs |
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$33.3M | 2010 |
52% | Bamboozled |
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$1.9M | 2000 |
82% | Liar Liar |
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— | 1997 |
80% | While You Were Sleeping |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Down, Out & Dangerous |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Cosmic Slop |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Flash III: Deadly Nightshade |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Paint It Black |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Original Sin |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Meeting |
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— | 1989 |
83% | Bird |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam |
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— | 1987 |
91% | No Way Out |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | The Children of Times Square |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | The Rape of Richard Beck |
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— | 1985 |
85% | All of Me |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | City Killer |
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— | 1984 |
71% | The Star Chamber |
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— | 1983 |
93% | WarGames (War Games) |
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— | 1983 |
77% | Blue Thunder |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Pray TV |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | The Night the City Screamed |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Uncle Joe Shannon |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | A Woman Called Moses |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Wilma |
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— | 1977 |
88% | Car Wash |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Friday Foster |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Thomasine and Bushrod |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Going Home |
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— | 1971 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
Herman's Head
1991-1994
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No Score Yet |
Empty Nest
1988-1995
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No Score Yet |
Wiseguy
1987-1990
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No Score Yet |
American Playhouse
1982-1996
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No Score Yet |
Designing Women
1986-1993
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No Score Yet |
Beauty and the Beast
1987-1990
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No Score Yet |
The Cosby Show
1984-1992
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No Score Yet |
The Facts of Life
1979-1988
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No Score Yet |
Dukes of Hazzard
1979-1985
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No Score Yet |
Hunter
1984-1991
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No Score Yet |
Night Court
1984-1992
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No Score Yet |
The Jeffersons
1975-1985
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No Score Yet |
M*A*S*H
1972-1983
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No Score Yet |
The White Shadow
1978-1981
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No Score Yet |
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-1976
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No Score Yet |
V: The Original Miniseries
1983
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Quotes from Jason Bernard's Characters
Roger Cobb: | Tell the truth, I kind a miss the old girl. |
Edwina Cutwater: | Who are you calling old?! |
Roger Cobb: | That's not funny, Ty. |
Edwina Cutwater: | It is not Mr. Wattell. It is I. |
Roger Cobb: | ...Edwina?? |
Tyrone Wattell: | Yeah. When you gave me that pitcher & told me to take care of it, I thought it was gin & drank some. |
Roger Cobb: | Edwina, I gotta kiss you! |
Tyrone Wattell: | That's MY side, stupid! |
Jerry Wallace: | You were born into a family. You do not join them like you do the Marines. |