{"id":549559,"date":"2026-03-28T01:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549559\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:58:08","slug":"police-woman-actor-was-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549559\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Police Woman’ Actor Was 86"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEd Bernard<\/a>, an actor best known for roles on the TV series \u201cPolice Woman\u201d and \u201cThe White Shadow,\u201d died on Jan. 23 in Northridge, Calif. He was 86.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNews of Bernard\u2019s death was confirmed by his son, Edward B. Bernard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhile the world knew him as a star, his family knew him as a devoted father, a proud grandfather and a man of deep curiosity. Ed was a true \u2018foodie\u2019 who loved sushi and healthy cooking, a lifelong learner and a man of great faith,\u201d wrote Edward in a statement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBernard\u2019s career first began in 1971 when he appeared in Gordon Parks\u2019 classic \u201cShaft.\u201d He continued to collect credits in films like Peter Yates\u2019 \u201cThe Hot Rock\u201d and Barry Shear\u2019s \u201cAcross 110th Street\u201d in 1972 before making his first TV appearance in 1973\u2019s \u201cLove Story.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1974, he was cast as Detective Joe Styles on NBC\u2019s \u201cPolice Woman,\u201d a crime drama that follows undercover cop Sergeant \u201cPepper\u201d Anderson. He played Styles for all four seasons of the crime drama, culminating in 90 episodes. Over the course of its run, \u201cPolice Woman\u201d was nominated for seven primetime Emmys. In 1978, Bernard joined the cast of Bruce Paltrow\u2019s \u201cThe White Shadow,\u201d a TV series about a basketball coach at an inner-city high school. He played Principal Jim Willis over 33 episodes until 1980.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBernard also made appearances on TV series including \u201cHardcastle and McCormick,\u201d \u201cLife with Lucy,\u201d \u201cDoogie Howser, M.D.,\u201d \u201cER\u201d and \u201cCold Case.\u201d In addition to his work on screen, Bernard also performed onstage, most notably appearing in a 1969 production of\u00a0\u201cFive on the Black Hand Side\u201d at the American Place Theatre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBernard was born in Philadelphia on July 4, 1939. He is survived by his sons Edward and Mark Sheldon Beranard and his grandchildren Liz, Joshua, Samantha and Alexandra. Shirley Mae Bernard, his wife of 44 years, died in 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBernard will be \u201claid to rest at sea\u201d during a private family service, per the family\u2019s statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Bernard, an actor best known for roles on the TV series \u201cPolice Woman\u201d and \u201cThe White Shadow,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,244690,88],"class_list":["post-549559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-ed-bernard","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}