Television and Films
In the 1960-1961 season, Convy guest starred on Pat O'Brien's short-lived ABC sitcom, Harrigan and Son as well as guest-starring on the ABC private detective show 77 Sunset Strip in the role of David Todd. He guest starred on Mary Tyler Moore as Jack Foster, a friend of Mary's, alongside future Alice co-star, Beth Howland.
He attempted to parlay his fame in a short-lived variety series, The Late Summer Early Fall Bert Convy Show in 1976. In 1979, he appeared with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders in a movie of the same name. In 1970, Convy played Paul Revere in the TV series Bewitched on the episode "Paul Revere Rides Again". He also appeared in episodes of four CBS series, Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr, Hawaii Five-O starring Jack Lord, Mission: Impossible starring Peter Graves, and The New Phil Silvers Show, with comedian Phil Silvers, and starred in the premiere episode of Fantasy Island with Ricardo Montalban, and had a supporting role in the pilot episode of Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury, as well as a role in a later episode.
Convy also starred in several movies, most memorably in the film Semi-Tough (1977) where he played a caricature of Werner Erhard named "Friedrich Bismark." He starred in French director Philippe de Broca's Les Caprices de Marie (Give Her the Moon, 1970). He also played a teacher named Jeff Reed in the horror movie Jennifer. In 1979, he starred in the movie Racquet, as a tennis star. He also made a fine appearance in Help Wanted: Male (1982). In addition, he directed the 1986 comedy Weekend Warriors. In 1980, Convy produced and directed the Goodspeed Opera House premiere of the musical Zapata, music and lyrics by Harry Nilsson and Perry Botkin, Jr., libretto by Allan Katz. Convy's final feature film was the 1981 movie Cannonball Run, in which he played a character named Bradford Compton.
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