Personal Info
Birth date
1936-01-24 (89 Years)
Day of death
2020-01-12
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
William Russell Bogert III
Bill Bogert
William Bogart
Bill Bogart
William Bogert
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William "Bill" Bogert (January 24, 1936 – January 12, 2020) was an American character actor best known for his semi-regular role as Brandon Brindle on the TV series Small Wonder from 1985 to 1989. He also portrayed Kent Wallace, the host of Chappelle's Show's Frontline spoofs.
Filmography
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.939
Overview:
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.Law & Order
7.4
Overview:
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.Columbo
8.102
Overview:
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.Gilmore Girls
7.9
Overview:
Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.Knots Landing
6.7
Overview:
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.Melrose Place
5.9
Overview:
Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.M*A*S*H
7.926
Overview:
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.Quincy, M.E.
7.482
Overview:
Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.Starsky & Hutch
7.2
Overview:
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.Hill Street Blues
7.6
Overview:
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.Matlock
7.161
Overview:
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.Barney Miller
7.4
Overview:
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.3rd Rock from the Sun
7.5
Overview:
The high commander of an alien expedition lands on Earth -- what he considers to be the least-important planet -- in human form as Dick Solomon. Along for the ride are his alien compatriots Harry, Sally and Tommy -- who is the eldest of the group but is now angrily trapped in a teen's body.Spin City
7.071
Overview:
Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.Taxi
7.2
Overview:
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.Hart to Hart
6.866
Overview:
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.The Wonder Years
8.324
Overview:
The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.Alice
7.071
Overview:
Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.Police Woman
6.2
Overview:
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.The Incredible Hulk
7.253
Overview:
During an experiment gone bad, radiation turns a scientist into a raging green behemoth whenever he becomes agitated. Unable to control his transformations, David Banner searches for a cure as he crosses the country, fugitive-style, with a dogged tabloid reporter on his trail.The Facts of Life
7.1
Overview:
Mrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.Lou Grant
7.3
Overview:
The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.The Fall Guy
7.529
Overview:
Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers picks up some extra pocket money by using his rough-and-tumble skills to track and capture bail jumpers.The Jeffersons
7.341
Overview:
Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.Trapper John, M.D.
6.5
Overview:
Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986.Baretta
6.4
Overview:
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.Eight Is Enough
6
Overview:
Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book with the same name.Switch
6.7
Overview:
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.Acting
TBAWhen the Moon Was Twice as Big as Mr. Pauley
TBALyndon Johnson: Confessions of a Republican as The Republican
2015Difficult People (2 Episodes) as Elmer
2010Tenure as Dean Leakey
2009The Flying Scissors as Mr. Perkins
2008Backseat as Dad
2003Hope & Faith (1 Episode) as Principal Simmons
2000Ed (1 Episode) as Jerry MacAllister
2000Gilmore Girls (1 Episode) as College Dean
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Thomas Rooney
1998A Perfect Murder as Harrington
1997Fired Up (1 Episode) as Man
1996Spin City (1 Episode) as Priest
19963rd Rock from the Sun (1 Episode) as Dean Sumner
1992Melrose Place (1 Episode) as Doctor
1990Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day as Dentist (voice) (as William Bogart)
1990Law & Order (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Jules Simon, Divorce Attorney Alvin Hartmann, Professor Arlen Howard, Reardon
1988Take My Daughters, Please as Dr. Oscar Reback
1988Empty Nest (1 Episode) as Doctor #1
1988The Wonder Years (1 Episode) as Preacher
1987Leg Work (1 Episode) as Klopf
1987Walk Like a Man as A.J. (Al) Brown
1986Stewardess School as Roger Weidermeyer
1986Matlock (1 Episode) as Unknown
1985The Colbys (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1985Small Wonder (99 Episodes) as Brandon Brindle
1984Crazy like a Fox (1 Episode) as Morton Felspar
1983Carpool as Stevens
1983WarGames as Mr. Lightman
1982Square Pegs (1 Episode) as Unknown
1982Madame's Place (3 Episodes) as Dwayne Kellogg
1982This Is Kate Bennett... as Lawson
1982Death Wish II as Fred Brown (uncredited)
1981The Fall Guy (1 Episode) as Unknown
1981Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase as Alfred Lawson
1981The Greatest American Hero (4, 3 Episode) as Unknown, Les Carlisle
1981Hill Street Blues (1 Episode) as Carillo
1980Friendly Fire as Unknown
1980The Scarlett O'Hara War as Russell Birdwell
1980The Last Married Couple in America as Dancing Man at First Party
1980Hero at Large as TV Moderator
1979Knots Landing (1 Episode) as Phillip Barbanell
1979Better Late Than Never as Rapist
1979Trapper John, M.D. (1 Episode) as Unknown
1979Hart to Hart (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Wendell Kanter
1979Benson (1 Episode) as Unknown
1979The Facts of Life (1 Episode) as Unknown
1978A Fire in the Sky as Wayne Lustus
1978Centennial (1 Episode) as Walter Bellamy
1978Flying High (1 Episode) as Unknown
1978Taxi (1 Episode) as James Broderick
1978Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force as Maj. Holloway
1978Heaven Can Wait as Lawson
1978Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women as Parson
1978Almost Summer as Mr. Albrecht (as Bill Bogert)
1977The Incredible Hulk (1 Episode) as Unknown
1977Mulligan's Stew (1 Episode) as Unknown
1977Lou Grant (1 Episode) as Colin
1977The Betty White Show (1 Episode) as Giroux
1977Fire Sale as Insurance Doctor
1977Eight Is Enough (1 Episode) as Unknown
1977The Death of Richie as Ernie
1976Quincy, M.E. (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (2 Episodes) as Joe Galen
1976The Front as Parks
1976Spencer's Pilots (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976Alice (1 Episode) as Unknown
1975Dog Day Afternoon as TV Anchorman
1975Starsky & Hutch (1 Episode) as Unknown
1975Switch (1 Episode) as Arnold Winton
1975Barney Miller (1 Episode) as Neil Korchak
1975The Jeffersons (1 Episode) as Unknown
1975Baretta (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1974Police Woman (1 Episode) as Unknown
1974Death Wish as Fred Brown (uncredited)
1972M*A*S*H (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1971Columbo (1 Episode) as Randall Thurston