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Frank Bonner
Frank Bonner
Frank Bonner was an American actor and television director.
Bonner was probably best known for his role as sales manager Herb Tarlek on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.
Bonner also appeared as Father Hargis, headmaster at the fictional St. Augustine’s Academy, on the 1988-90 ABC show Just the Ten of Us, a spinoff of Growing Pains.
He made several guest star appearances on such shows as Mannix, The F.B.I., Emergency!, Cannon, and Police Woman.
Frank Bonner was an American actor and television director.
Bonner was probably best known for his role as sales manager Herb Tarlek on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.
Bonner also appeared as Father Hargis, headmaster at the fictional St. Augustine’s Academy, on the 1988-90 ABC show Just the Ten of Us, a spinoff of Growing Pains.
He made several guest star appearances on such shows as Mannix, The F.B.I., Emergency!, Cannon, and Police Woman.
After WKRP, he appeared episodes of Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Newhart, The Duck Factory, Matt Houston, Night Court, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and Murder, She Wrote.
Bonner directed six episodes of the original WKRP and seven of the reboot. From 1997-2001, he directed 105 episodes of NBC’s City Guys.
His other directing credits included Family Ties, Who’s the Boss?, Head of the Class, Evening Shade, and Harry and the Hendersons.
Bonner died June 16, 2021 in Laguna Niguel, California. He was 79.
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