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[[File:Memorial to Bernie Winters, Golders Green Crematorium.JPG|thumb|250px|Memorial to Bernie Winters, Golders Green Crematorium]]
'''Bernie Winters''' (born '''Bernie Weinstein'''; 6 September 1930<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=162686079:9261&d=bmd_1649064119|title = FreeBMD Entry Info}}</ref> – 4 May 1991), was an English comedian, actor, musician & TV presenter, and the comic foil of the double act [[Mike and Bernie Winters]] with his older brother, [[Mike Winters (comedian)|Mike]]. Winters later performed solo, often with the aid of his [[St. Bernard (dog)|St Bernard]] dog, '''Schnorbitz'''.

==Biography==
Bernie Winters was born Bernard Weinstein, at the City of London Maternity Hospital, 102 City Road, Holborn, on 6 September 1930. His father was a bookmaker. Bernie served in the merchant navy and performed as a musician at dances and weddings before forming the double act [[Mike & Bernie Winters]] with his brother [[Mike Winters (comedian)|Mike]], whom he called "Choochie-Face" on stage.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10266468/Mike-Winters.html|title=Mike Winters Daily Telegraph Obituary|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|access-date=27 August 2013}}</ref> In October 1957 the duo appeared on ''[[Six-Five Special]]'' and were described in the ''Daily Mirror'' as top comics for Britain's teenage TV audience.<ref>{{Citation
| last = Davis
| first = Clifford
| title = Tops for Teens
| newspaper = Daily Mirror
| page = 10
| date =1957-10-05
}}</ref> They had been recommended to the show's presenter [[Josephine Douglas]] by [[Tommy Steele]] with whom they had been on a stage tour. They both left the show the same day that she did, on 10 May 1958.

The two brothers split up in 1978, and Bernie hosted his own comedy show, ''Bernie'' (1978–1980) for ITV. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Bernie also presented ''The Big Top Variety Show'', a television series of variety shows from a circus ring. In 1984 he presented the second series of the game show ''Whose Baby?'' He also became a regular on shows such as ''[[Punchlines]]'' and ''[[Give Us A Clue]]'' and gave an impression of [[Bud Flanagan]] on television and later on stage, with [[Leslie Crowther]] as Flanagan's partner [[Chesney Allen]].

Winters was a member of the show business fraternity, the [[Grand Order of Water Rats]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gowr.co.uk/all-water-rats/v/42|title=Biography of a Water Rat}}</ref>

Winters appeared as himself in [[London Weekend Television]] sitcom ''[[Bottle Boys]]'' in 1985.

On 14 August 1990, after several months of discomfort and stomach pains, he had a nine-hour operation on his stomach. Cancer was removed. However, though he was never told, Winters' condition was already terminal, and he died on 4 May 1991, at [[The London Clinic]] at the age of 60.

Bernie was cremated at [[Golders Green Crematorium]] in [[London]] on 8 May, and his ashes interred in the Garden of Remembrance. A memorial plaque was erected in the West Memorial Court there.

==Partial filmography==
* ''[[Six-Five Special]]'' (1958) – Himself
* ''[[Idol on Parade]]'' (1959) – Joseph Jackson
* ''[[Jazz Boat]]'' (1960) – The Jinx
* ''[[Let's Get Married (1960 film)|Let's Get Married]]'' (1960) – Bernie
* ''[[In the Nick]]'' (1960) – Jinx Shortbottom
* ''[[Johnny Nobody]]'' (1961) – Photographer
* ''[[Play it Cool (film)|Play it Cool]]'' (1962) – Sydney Norman
* ''[[The Cool Mikado]]'' (1963) – Bernie
* ''[[Simon, Simon]]'' (1970) – Man on roof with book
* ''[[Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair]]'' (1979) – Mr. Pringle
* ''Mary Millington's World Striptease Extravaganza'' (1981) – Blue comedian

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|935903}}
*The 1967 album [https://downstairslounge.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/mike-and-bernie-winters: Mike and Bernie Winters In Toyland]

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