Frank Bonner

Frank Bonner was an American actor and television director who first appeared on screen in The Equinox ... A Journey into the Unknown, a 1967 experimental film that was later reworked into the 1970 cult classic Equinox. Raised in Malvern, Arkansas, he took small parts on Mannix, Emergency!, and Love, American Style. In 1978 he joined WKRP in Cincinnati and found his signature role, the advertising sales agent Herb Tarlek, known for loud plaid suits and white shoes. He later guest starred on Night Court and played Detective Mooney on the Disney series Sidekicks from 1986 to 1987, then Father Hargis, a school headmaster, on Just the Ten of Us from 1988 to 1990. He returned to Herb Tarlek for the 1991 spinoff The New WKRP in Cincinnati. After directing six WKRP episodes, he directed episodes of Who's the Boss?, Head of the Class, Evening Shade, Newhart, and City Guys, and worked on Saved by the Bell: The New Class.