Background
His father was a bookmaker and he served in the merchant navy and performed as a musician at dances and weddings before forming the double act with his brother who he referred to as “Choochie-Face” on stage.
His father was a bookmaker and he served in the merchant navy and performed as a musician at dances and weddings before forming the double act with his brother who he referred to as “Choochie-Face” on stage.
He later performed solo, often with the aid of his Saint Bernard dog, Schnorbitz. Following his death, he bequeathed Schnorbitz to showman Richard De Vere. In October 1957 the duo appeared on Six-Five Special and were described in the Daily Mirror as top comics for Britain"s teenage television audience.
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. He split with Mike in 1978 and in the late 1970s and early 1980s he 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? In August 1990, after three months of discomfort and stomach pains, he had a major operation on his stomach and Cancer was foundation Much of it was taken away.
However, though he was never told, Winters"s condition was terminal.
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.