RIP Frank Bonner

“Kattobi Broadcasting Station” Star Frank Bonner dies at the age of 79

 

Florida News Times

June 17, 2021

Frank Bonner Famous for playing Herb Tarlek on the TV sitcom “WKR Pin Cincinnati” has died … TMZ learned.

Frank died Wednesday as a result of complications of Lewy body dementias … according to his family. His loved ones are said to be in grief, and they were with him when he died in peace.

Actor and director Frank was best known for his work on “WKRP” in the late 1970s and early 80s … Herb, a radio station sales manager who couldn’t get a big account.

 

Frank’s character was also known to wear white shoes and a matching belt at the show, in addition to a loud plaid suit.

 

He directed several episodes about the OG “WKRP” and replayed his role as an herb in the 1990s spin-off “Cincinnati’s New WKRP” … and in “Bell Saved: A New Class”. I played and directed it.

 

Frank became a hot topic when he was hospitalized in a parachute accident in October 1979. He was injured after falling about 20 feet when his ascendancy shoot fell in an unusual wind while being towed by a four-wheel drive vehicle on a bed in a dry lake near Los Angeles.

 

He was 79 years old.

 

BONNER, Frank (Frank Woodrow Boers Jr.)

Born: 2/28/1942, Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A.

Died: 6/17/2021, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Frank Bonner’s westerns – actor:

Nichols (TV) – 1972 (Gruber)

Hearts of the West – 1975 (assistant director)

No Man’s Land (TV) – 1984 (Deputy Thad Prouty)