Ed Bernard, who portrayed the undercover cop Joe Styles alongside Angie Dickinson on NBC’s Police Woman and the principal Jim Willis opposite Ken Howard on CBS’ The White Shadow, has died. He was 86.
Bernard died Jan. 23 in Northridge, his family announced.
The Philadelphia native appeared on two episodes of the Joseph Wambaugh-created NBC drama Police Story, including the March 1974 installment “The Gamble” that served as the de facto pilot for Police Woman.
As Det. Styles, Bernard partnered in an LAPD undercover unit with Dickinson’s Sgt. “Pepper” Anderson, Earl Holliman‘s Sgt. Bill Crowley and Charles Dierkop‘s Det. Pete Royster for 90 episodes over all four seasons (1974-78) of the series.
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When that show wrapped, Bernard segued to play Willis on The White Shadow, starring Howard as Ken Reeves, a former Chicago Bulls player who is hired
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