# Bernie Casey, RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-casey-rip/796841 "2017-09-21T00:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-casey-rip/796841/1 "2017-09-21T00:32:46Z")
[Dead at 78.](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bernie-casey-dead-actor-nfl-910749) Lots of credits, but I’ll always remember him as the Special Forces commander in _Spies Like Us_. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-casey-rip/796841/2 "2017-09-21T01:19:44Z")
Barely recognizable, but he played The Gargoyle in Cornel Wilde’s TVM, [“Gargoyles,”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068622/?ref_=nv_sr_2) back in the early 1970s. Strange movie. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-casey-rip/796841/3 "2017-09-21T01:21:38Z")
Oh wow. Awesome voice. Huge screen presence. _The Man Who Fell To Earth_, _Cleopatra Jones_, _I’m Gonna Get You Sucka_… he was even in _Brian’s Song_. RIP Mr. Casey; you done good. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-casey-rip/796841/4 "2017-09-21T01:37:37Z")
Damn. “Sharky’s Machine” is one of my all time favorite movies. He was awesome in it - hilarious at times. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-casey-rip/796841/5 "2017-09-21T01:54:18Z")
He certainly transcended his origins. He spent 8 years in the NFL in the 60s. He was successful enough as an actor that his beginnings as a pro athlete became just a footnote. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-casey-rip/796841/6 "2017-09-21T02:50:55Z")
He looked good in red, too. [![](https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/maquis-pt14.jpg?resize=475%2C357&type=vertical) ](https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/maquis-pt14.jpg?resize=475%2C357&type=vertical) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-casey-rip/796841/7 "2017-09-21T03:34:35Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > He certainly transcended his origins. He spent 8 years in the NFL in the 60s. He was successful enough as an actor that his beginnings as a pro athlete became just a footnote. A few years ago, I saw an old NFL Films feature on Casey, from around the end of his NFL career; even then, he was a renaissance man, writing poetry and painting, as well as getting his feet wet in acting. I had no idea until I saw that film, and I was very impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-casey-rip/796841/8 "2017-09-21T05:50:32Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Barely recognizable, but he played The Gargoyle in Cornel Wilde’s TVM, [“Gargoyles,”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068622/?ref_=nv_sr_2) back in the early 1970s. Strange movie. That’s what I mostly knew him for (love that movie!), along with his Felix Leiter role. Never knew he was in the NFL, but then I’m not a sports fan. RIP, Bernie!! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-casey-rip/796841/9 "2017-09-21T08:42:01Z")
I remember him mainly as U.N. Jefferson in _Revenge of the Nerds_. I knew he’d been an NFL player, but he was a fine actor also. He will be missed. RIP, Mr. Casey. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-casey-rip/796841/10 "2017-09-21T15:49:19Z")
He was one of the great “Oh that guy” actors and he had some great roles and real presence on the screen. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-casey-rip/796841/11 "2017-09-21T20:10:52Z")
[Link](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143378/) to his IMDb page. If you have _Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Amazon Women on the Moon, Revenge of the Nerds_ (and two sequels), _Ants!, The Man Who Fell to Earth_, and _Cleopatra Jones_ on your resume, you did okay in my book.