The person who played Herbert Ruggles Tarlek, Jr. or Herb Tarlek is Frank Bonner. Born Frank Woodrow Boers Jr. on Feberuary 28, 1942 in Little Rock, Arkansas, he began his acting career in the 1967 film entitled The Equinox … A Journey into the Unknown which was remade in 1970 wherein the title was changed to Equinox. It was in 1978 when he starred in WKRP in Cincinnati, a sitcom about the staff of the fictional radio station located in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He starred alongside Gary Sandy as Andy Travis, Godon Jump as Arthur Carlson, Howard Hesseman as Dr. Johnny Fever, Richard Sanders as Les Nessman, Loni Anderson as Jennifer Marlowe, Tim Reid as Venus Flytrap and Jan Smithers as Bailey Quarters, to name a few.
