Bernard Jeffrey McCullough was an American comedian, actor, and voice actor. His most noted film roles were as Frank Catton in the 2001 remake of Ocean’s Eleven and as the title character of Mr. 3000. He was the star of his eponymous show, which ran from 2001 through 2006, earning him two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. In his later years, he hosted the television reality show Last Comic Standing. Mac died of a heart attack on September 14, 2013.
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Bernard Jeffrey McCullough was an American comedian, actor, and voice actor. His most noted film roles were as Frank Catton in the 2001 remake of Ocean’s Eleven and as the title character of Mr. 3000. He was the star of his eponymous show, which ran from 2001 through 2006, earning him two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. In his later years, he hosted the television reality show Last Comic Standing. He also served as the voice of Zuba the Lion’s long-starred father in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. These three movies were released months after his death. His final film was as Jimmy Lunchbox in the 2009 Disney film Old Dogs which was released a year after he died. Mac’s influences were from The Three Stooges and listening to stand-up comedians Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx. Mac won the Miller Lite Comedy Search at the age of 32, his popularity as a comedian began to grow. Mac worked in a variety of jobs, including janitor, coach, professional mover, cook, bus driver, Sears delivery man, furniture mover and UPS agent, while doing comedy on the weekends at clubs and parties.
He had a short-lived talk show on HBO titled Midnight Mac. Mac played Mr. Johnson the no-nonsense owner of a grille and diner in the movie B. A. P. S. In 2001 he gave his own television sitcom called The Bernie Mac Show portraying his fictional sister, Bernie Mac’s sister. He starred alongside John Travolta and Robin Williams in a version of Robin Williams’ Robin Williams: The Movie. Mac also starred in Guess Who?, a comedic remake of the film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and made an appearance in the 2007 Transformers as the character Bobby Bolivia. Mac was the second child of Mary McCullough and Jeffrey Harrison. Mac married his high school sweetheart Rhonda Gore on September 17, 1977, and together they had a daughter, Ja’Niece Childress, born in 1978. Mac died of a heart attack on September 14, 2013.
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