Bart Braverman

Bartley Louis Braverman (born February 1, 1946) is an American former actor, best known for playing Binzer on the ABC primetime series Vega$ (1978–1981).^[1] Braverman has also guest starred on many television shows.

Bart Braverman is the son of producer Herb Braverman and actress Kendall Carly Browne.^[2] His brother, Chuck Braverman, is a television director and producer.^[2]

Braverman was billed as Bart Bradley in many of his early roles.

After he graduated from Fairfax High School, Braverman attended the College of San Mateo, Marin College, and Sonoma State; he completed his studies at Carnegie Tech^[1] with a degree in drama.^[3] Before he became an actor, he worked at a variety of jobs, including busing dishes, delivering telephone books, parking cars, and working for Kelly Services.^[4]

Braverman made his professional acting debut as a child actor in milk commercials, along with his brother. From 1955 to 1962, the child then teen Braverman appeared on single episodes of various television series, including I Love Lucy,^[1] Have Gun – Will Travel and Wagon Train. He played an Indian boy in Rawhide, S2 E8 "Incident of the Haunted Hills" which aired 11/5/1959, credited as Bart Bradley. His film roles include two credited roles, for Cell 2455 Death Row (1955) and 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957). His last pre-adult credit, also marking his last credit as Bart Bradley, was a 1962 episode of Bachelor Father.

Braverman did not return to acting until he was 29, appearing in a 1975 episode of Columbo. He appeared steadily on television, with occasional film roles—including Alligator (1980) and 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)—for the next 42 years. Other television roles included episodes of Seinfeld, M*A*S*H, and Shameless, and a voice role on Fangface.

Braverman may be best known for his main cast role playing Dan Tanna's field assistant and legman, Bobby "Binzer" Borso, on Vega$, from 1978 to 1981. in 1979 he expressed frustration with the way the character had been developed. Braverman said that writers could have brought out many characteristics of Binzer, "But when they began to write him into subsequent episodes of the show they took only two of those facets — the fact that he is stupid and the fact that he is cowardly — and that's all they use."^[5]

He also had a co-starring role in the 1982–83 television series The New Odd Couple.

Braverman also has made frequent appearances on the game show Match Game during its run in syndication from 1979 to 1982. In 1979 and 1980, he also appeared on the game shows Password Plus with Vega$ co-star Robert Urich. In 1984, he appeared on Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour.

Braverman's stage credits include the Broadway production of Godspell (1972).^[6]

Braverman was married for eight years and then divorced.^[4]

• Bart Braverman at IMDb