Nationality: American
Birthdate: 10/30/1923
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Death Date: 05/09/1986
Swarthy character player, best remembered as Tevye in the long-running musical "Fiddler on the Roof." Bernardi played gangster types or slow-thinking, good-natured schmoes in occasional feature comedies and dramas including "A Cold Wind in August" (1961), "Irma La Douce" (1963), and "The Front" (1976). A busy voice-over artist as well, Bernardi was much in demand for cartoon characters, as with his Charlie the Tuna of TV commercials fame.
Earliest films include the Yiddish-language "Green Fields" (1937) and "Yankel the Shoemaker" (1939)
Starred on Broadway as Tevye in the musical, "Fiddler on the Roof"
1968
Returned to Broadway to star in the title role of the musical, "Zorba"
