Date of Birth

Mini Biography

Bert Stratford began his career as a singer and actor in 1960. In 1963 he played Hero on Broadway and the National Tour of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and Off-Broadway he played the Boy in The Fantasticks. He recorded for Kapp Records, was Joan Rivers opening actor for nearly three years and played more juvenile roles on stage, film and TV than he cares to remember.

His early theatrical producing career spanned seven years beginning back in 1976 with The Shirtsleave Theatre Company that produced some twelve original productions over a two year run at the well known Manhattan Theatre Club. On Broadway, Stratford produced Street Heat and Musical Chairs. Off-Broadway his credits include the award winning musicals, Scrambled Feet and Children Of Adam. On tour his productions included The Fantasticks, I Do!, I Do!, Sugar Babies, Hollywood Hotel, Stars On 45, Bye Bye Birdie, The Seven Year Itch, Marriage Go Round, Dick Shawn At Carnegie Hall and The Rainmaker.

As a consultant and TV packager, Stratford worked with Silver Lake Productions during the mid-80s on several shows for HBO, showtime, The British Broadcasting System, Disney Channel, ABC Distribution and MCA-TV.

His early TV producing credits from the 80s include The Glen Campbell Concert with the BBC, The Peep Show for MCA-TV, Scrambled Feet for Showtime, Honky Tonk Nights starring Jackie Gleason for Showtime and The Mainas for PBS.

Stratford's association and partnership with Romeo Muller dated back to 1974. Romeo was on of the most prolific children/family writers whose credits include such animated classics as Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty The Snowman, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town and The Hobbit. Between these tow gentlemen, they represent seventeen of the all time popular network holiday specials.

His completed successful holiday specials include on NBC, The Twelve Days Of Christmas, sponsored and tied into a seventy-five million dollar licensing program with K-Mart, and the most popular NBC special in five years entitled Noel. On ABC, The Wish That Changed Christmas, sponsored by McDonald's, in syndication Peppermint Rose based on the Mattel doll, the pilot for Disney's The Little Mermaid, and Strawberry Shortcake which was tied into a $1.2 billion dollar licensing program.

In a first look deal spanning nearly three years, Stratford developed several network and cable MOW's with Davis Entertainment Television.

Completed in 1997 were 26 half hours of Bingo And Molly, a children's live action/animation pro social series for the Learning Channel, wick won the Cine' Golden Eagle Award, The Parents Choice Award, and a Grammy Award Nomination. Also, he produced a series of direct-to-video animated films for Goodtimes Home Video which titles include White Fang (wrote/produced) and The Ten Commandments, and a one hour crime drama pilot for CBS and Columbia Tri-Star entitled The Fugitive Squad.

Stratford's critically acclaimed Christmas movie completed it's third consecutive network airing entitled The Christmas Secret, starring Richard Thomas and Beau Bridges as "Nick" (Santa Clause) was the third highest rated movie in 2000 on television. this CBS movie was sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, General Motors, Nestles, and K-Mart. Bruce Graham who scripted Anastasia, Twentieth Century's animated film success adapted the screenplay from the critically acclaimed Christmas book entitled The Flight Of The Reindeer, by Robert Sullican.

Stratford is married to actress Lee Meredith and has two grown daughters Kim (an artist) and Erica (a nurse).

Bert - Alto Sax

Lesko Family Event in Stratford CT