Bonar Bain

{{short description|Canadian actor}} {{infobox person |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = Bonar Stewart Bain |birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1923|2|4}} |birth_place = Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada |death_date = {{death date and age|2005|02|18|1923|02|04|mf=yes}} |death_place = Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |occupation = Actor |spouse = {{marriage|Vella Bain|1945}} |relatives = Conrad Bain (twin brother) |children = 3 }}

'''Bonar Stewart Bain''' (February 4, 1923 – February 18, 2005) was a Canadian actor and the identical twin brother of actor Conrad Bain.

== Early life, family and education == Bain was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, the son of Jean Agnes (née Young) and Stafford Harrison Bain, a wholesaler.<ref>Conrad Bain</ref> His twin brother, Conrad, also became an actor.

==Career== Bain once played a fictional "evil" twin to Conrad ("Hank Bain") in an episode of ''SCTV'', as well as appearing on two of his brother's television series: as Arthur Harmon (Conrad Bain)'s twin brother, the libidinous, larcenous Arnold, on the sitcom ''Maude'', and, in drag, as Anna Van Drummond, on the sitcom ''Diff'rent Strokes''.

==Death== He died of cancer in Edmonton, Alberta on February 18, 2005, at the age of 82.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/edmontonjournal/obituary.aspx?n=bonar-bain&pid=3200139#fbLoggedOut| title=Bonar Bain Obituary| newspaper=Edmonton Journal| date=22 February 2005| accessdate=2015-09-26}}</ref> He was survived by his wife Vella, who died in January 2011, at the age of 85.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/edmontonjournal/obituary.aspx?n=vella-bain&pid=147780780#fbLoggedOut |title=Vella Bain| newspaper=Edmonton Journal |publisher=Legacy.com |date=13 January 2011 |accessdate=2019-03-10}}</ref>

==In popular culture== Bain figures in the lyrics to "Bober," a song from the Mike Keneally Band's 2004 album ''Dog''. Keneally sings that his dog, Bober, was "half-named after Conrad Bain's brother."<ref>{{cite web| title=Discography: Dog| url=http://www.keneally.com/music/discography-mike-keneally/dog/| archive-date=January 23, 2009| website=Mike Keneally| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123052343/http://www.keneally.com/discography/doglyrics.html| accessdate=10 March 2019}}</ref>

==Filmography== * ''Draw!'' as Poker Player (1984) * ''Diff'rent Strokes'' as Anna Van Drummond (1983) * ''Running Brave'' as University Professor (1983) * ''SCTV Network'' as Hank Bain (in "Zontar") (1981) * ''Powder Heads'' as Dispatcher (1980) * ''Maude'' as Arnold Harmon (in "Vivian's Surprise") (1977)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0047691|name=Bonar Bain}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bain, Bonar}} Category:1923 births Category:2005 deaths Category:20th-century Canadian male actors Category:Canadian male television actors Category:Deaths from cancer in Alberta Category:Identical twin male actors Category:Male actors from Alberta Category:People from Lethbridge Category:Canadian twins