Bert Remsen
Herbert Birchell Remsen ( born February 25, 1925 in Glen Cove, New York, † 22 April 1999 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California ) was an American actor and casting director.
Life
Herbert Birchell Remsen is the son of Helen Birchell and Winfred Herbert Remsen and the older brother of actor Guy Remsen. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Navy and received a Purple Heart for wounds he suffered when used in Okinawa. After his service, he studied acting at Ithaca College and moved to New York City, where he also studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse. With the play The Rainmaker Remsen debuted on Broadway. After 1952 he for the first time as a film actor in the television series Suspense " debuted, he turned to 1964, films like With Blood written, Kid Galahad -. Harte fists, hot love and moon Trapped in the rotation for the television series No Time for Sergeants happened Remsen an accident, as a crane crashed and he broke his back on him. Subsequently, he worked for several years as a casting director.
It was Robert Altman, for whom he worked as a casting director who is him flying back into acting for his comedy Just beautiful persuaded. Over the next decades, he made films such as Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Places in the Heart and Fletcher's visions, and was in television series such as Charlie's Angels, Hart to Hart and see Melrose Place.
Remsen married actress Katherine MacGregor in 1949, of which he was a short time later divorced again. On May 2, 1959, he married the casting director and actress Barbara Dodd, with whom he remained married until his death. Both had two daughters together, one of which is the actress Kerry Remsen. He passed away on April 22 due to natural causes at his home and was survived by his brother, his wife, his two children and two grandchildren.