Who played the bear?
I remember the bear becoming very popular from the show. anyone know which cast member it was?
I believe you refer to Janos Prohaska, but not from the Sonny and Cher Show, Try The Andy Williams Show.
" Best known as the talking, cookie-mad bear during the last years of The Andy Williams Show (1969). This character was always trying to wheedle a cookie out of Williams and was constantly, but never violently, rebuffed. Because of Prohaska's Hungarian accent, his voice was dubbed by one of the show's writers, Ray Reese.
Died in a plane crash, along with his son, Robert Prohaska, while working on the ABC TV series Up from the Ape (1975) (aka "Primal Man")."
Looking at his IMDB page he put on the ape suit and similar costumes for a wide spread of television shows. For example, three episodes of Gilligan's Island, four episodes of Bewitched, and four episodes of Star Trek.
From sometime or other I vaguely recall some sort of documentary showed the final footage he filmed which was recovered intact from the plane crash. Leading a clan of early humans across the snow.