Toggle menu
Toggle personal menu
Not logged in
Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits.

Brett Somers

From Battlestar Wiki, the free, open content Battlestar Galactica encyclopedia and episode guide
Revision as of 14:49, 4 June 2007 by Spencerian (talk | contribs) (New article.)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Brett Somers
Brett Somers
Portrays: Belloby
Date of Birth: July 11, 1924
Date of Death: Missing required parameter 1=month! ,
Age: 100
Nationality: CAN CAN
Related Media
@ BW Media


Brett Somers (born 11 July 1924 in New Brunswick, Canada) is a Canadian-American actor.

Somers is well-known to most American television viewers as a panelist in the long-running CBS daytime and syndicated game show, Match Game, often serving as comedic foil to actor and fellow panelist Charles Nelson Reilly.

Somers has enjoyed minor roles in several classic television shows, including Ben Casey, The Fugitive, Have Gun - Will Travel, The F.B.I., Barney Miller and the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Somers most enduring recurring role was as Blanche Madison, the ex-wife of Oscar Madison (played by Somers's husband, Jack Klugman) in The Odd Couple. Klugman and Somers separated in 1974, but have not divorced.

Somers portrayed Siress Belloby in the Original Series episode, "The Magnificent Warriors".

Somers has performed in New York nightclub shows as of 2003. She resided in Westport, Connecticut in 2005.