Bernard Morton Kopell (born June 21, 1933) is an American character actor notable for his roles as Siegfried in Get Smart from 1966 to 1969 and as Dr. Adam Bricker ("Doc") on The Love Boat from 1977 to 1986.

Early life Kopell was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jewish parents Pauline (née Taran) and Al Bernard Kopell. Kopell attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn before enrolling at New York University, majoring in dramatic arts and graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1955.

While fulfilling his military service, he served as a librarian at Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia, and then between 1956 and 1957 on board the battleship .

During his time on the USS Iowa, he travelled extensively to Europe in Italy, Spain, Greece, the Middle East in Turkey as well as to South America. He also taught the GED prep course to other military personnel. After completing active duty, Kopell returned to New York before going to Los Angeles with the promise of an agent by fellow graduate James Drury.

Career In Los Angeles, Kopell initially drove a taxi and tried to sell Kirby vacuum cleaners to make ends meet before being cast in a minor role in The Brighter Day, a daytime soap aired on CBS. From there, he moved on to appear in My Favorite Martian and The Jack Benny Program impersonating Latino characters, eventually managing to branch out and do other accents.

During the 1960s and early 1970s, Kopell appeared in many television series, often sitcoms, including Ripcord, That Girl, The Jack Benny Program, Our Man Higgins, Green Acres, The Danny Thomas Show, Ben Casey, The Flying Nun, Needles and Pins, McHale's Navy, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Sonny and Cher Show, Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, Petticoat Junction, The Streets of San Francisco, Room 222, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, The Odd Couple and Kojak.

However, Kopell's longest-running role was as Dr. Adam Bricker on The Love Boat, an Aaron Spelling production. He remained on the series during its entire run, appearing in 250 episodes.

Siegfried and other roles Kopell made recurring appearances as KAOS agent Siegfried in Get Smart, Jerry Bauman in That Girl and Louie Pallucci in The Doris Day Show. He played several characters on Bewitched, including the witches' apothecary and the hippie warlock Alonzo in the episode "The Warlock in the Gray Flannel Suit". He played Charlie Miller as a member of the cast of the situation comedy Needles and Pins, which ran for 14 episodes in the autumn of 1973. He portrayed a plastic surgeon who gave Ed Brown a facelift on Chico and the Man. In 1975, he was Alan-A-Dale in the Robin Hood parody When Things Were Rotten.

Earlier in his career, he played a director in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Good-Bye George"). About this same time, he guest starred on the short-lived The New Phil Silvers Show.

Later work Kopell's role as Doc on The Love Boat was parodied in a humorous appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in 1995. Two entries in that night's Top Ten List poked fun at The Love Boat, and at the Doc character specifically. The camera cut to Kopell, who was sitting in the audience, and he stormed out of the theater. A few moments later, he was shown having been re-seated in the mezzanine when the second parody was made at his expense, and again stood up, raised his fists and stormed out, playing along with the host. In a dream sequence of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Kopell made a parody cameo as an actor who played a ship's doctor so many times he offers to perform an operation for real, while in a 1994 episode of Saturday Night Live he appeared as Doc during a Love Boat–themed spoof of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In the 1990s, Kopell traded on his Doc Bricker persona when he appeared in a commercial for an anti-snoring product named D-Snore, in which he noted that loud snoring "can even ruin a romantic cruise."

Kopell appears as a coroner in "Which Prue Is It Anyway", an episode of Charmed. Kopell appears in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the Critic", playing Mr. Gilson, the ill-fated restroom attendant, whom Monk referred to as the Michelangelo of lavatories. He guest starred in "Pinky", a 2009 episode of My Name Is Earl. He made a cameo as a patient in the Scrubs episode "My Friend the Doctor", as well as an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.

Beginning in August 2022, Kopell co-starred with Hal Linden in Two Jews Talking off-Broadway at the Theater at St Clement's. He played his final performance on October 16.

As of 2023, he still appeared regularly in film and television productions.

Personal life Kopell has been married three times, first to actress Celia Whitney, then actress Yolanda Veloz, before marrying Catrina Honadle in 1997. Kopell and Honadle have two children together, Adam (born 1998) and Josh (born 2003).

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1963 The Man from the Diners' Club Comet Messenger Uncredited 1963 The Thrill of It All Commercial Director Uncredited 1963 The Wheeler Dealers Fawning Art Fan Uncredited 1964 Good Neighbor Sam Richard Taragon Uncredited 1965 The Loved One Assistant to the Guru Brahmin 1966 Death of a Salesman Howard 1972 Wild in the Sky Penrat 1976 The Love Boat Dr. Adam Bricker 1976 Flo's Place Hoffman 1976 Bound for Glory Baker – Woody's Agent Uncredited 1977 The Love Boat II Dr. O'Neill 1978 A Guide for the Married Woman Bill 1985 Half Nelson Pilot episode 1986 Combat High Mr. Mendelsson 1989 Get Smart, Again Conrad SiegfriedProfessor Helmut Schmelding 1989 The Magic Boy's Easter Mordechai the Magician Video short 1990 The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage Doc 1992 Missing Pieces Dr. Gutman 1998 Bug Buster Gil Griffin 1998 Sunset Beach: Shockwave Captain James Nelson 1998 Land of the Free TV Host 1999 Follow Your Heart Anthony Mason 2002 The Stoneman Professor Milano 2003 Dismembered 2003 A Light in the Forest Artemis Schnell 2004 Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls Officer Uncredited 2005 The Cutter Issac Teller 2006 The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park Percy Wells 2007 Say It in Russian Geezer 2 2008 Get Smart Opel Driver 2010 First Dog Psychiatrist Juvenile Hall 2018 The Last Sharknado: It's About Time Charter Boat Captain

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