Heinz Bernard

Heinz Bernard was a British actor, director and theater manager. He trained at RADA, graduating in 1951, and toured Britain with traveling players. He later managed the Unity Theatre in London, where he staged The Visions of Simone Machard, giving that Brecht play its first professional production in Britain, and he directed English language and British premieres of numerous Brecht plays between 1958 and 1963. He also staged premieres by Arthur Adamov and Ephraim Kishon. In the early 1960s he directed the traveling Century Theatre in the Lake District, and he taught at RADA and served as its director of admissions. He appeared as the Rabbi in a West End staging of Fiddler on the Roof, and from 1971 to 1981 he was based in Israel, working at the National Theatre Habima and appearing in the educational series Here We Are and Neighbours. He returned to England in 1981 and continued working until his death in 1994.