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Richard Gautier (October 30, 1931 – January 13, 2017) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and caricaturist. He was known for his television roles as Hymie the Robot in the television series Get Smart, and Robin Hood in the TV comedy series When Things Were Rotten,[1] as well as for originating the role of Conrad Birdie in the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie.

Dick Gautier
Gautier as Robin Hood in When Things Were Rotten (1975)
Born	Richard Gautier (1931-10-30)October 30, 1931 Culver City, California, U.S.
Died	January 13, 2017(2017-01-13) (aged 85) Arcadia, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, comedian, singer, caricaturist
Years active	1959–1992
Spouse(s)	Beverly J. Gerber (m. 1954; div. 19??) Barbara Stuart ​ ​ (m. 1967; div. 1979)​ Tess Hightower ​ (m. 2003)​
Children	3

Career

Early career

Gautier started his career as a nightclub comic and a singer; he joined ASCAP in 1959 after serving in the United States Navy. In 1960, he portrayed fictional rock 'n roll star Conrad Birdie in the original Broadway theatre production of Bye Bye Birdie, receiving a Tony Award nomination for his performance.[2] He would later appear with two of his "Birdie" stars in two films: with Kay Medford in Ensign Pulver in 1964, and with Dick Van Dyke in Divorce American Style in 1967.[3]

Game show panelist

During the 1970s and 1980s, Gautier was a frequent game show panelist, appearing on Match Game, Family Feud,[4] Tattletales, Showoffs, You Don't Say!, Liar's Club, Password Plus, Body Language, Super Password, Win, Lose or Draw, and the TV version of Can You Top This?

Batman

In 1973, when Burt Ward and Yvonne Craig reprised their Batman roles (as Robin and Batgirl, respectively) for a TV public service announcement about equal pay for women, Adam West, who was trying to distance himself from the Batman role at the time, declined to participate. Gautier filled in for West as Batman on this occasion.[5]

Voice-over roles

Gautier performed several voice-over roles in animation, including Rodimus Prime in the third season of The Transformers animated series from 1986 to 1987, as well as Serpentor in the G.I. Joe series, Louis from the 1986 cartoon Foofur, Spike the Dog in Tom & Jerry Kids, some additional voices in Hanna-Barbera's The New Yogi Bear Show, Wooly Smurf in The Smurfs, several voices for Inhumanoids, including Crygen and Pyre and their combined form, Magnakor.[6]

Celebrity caricatures

Gautier was known for his caricatures of celebrities and wrote several instructional books on caricature, drawing, and cartooning.[7]

Personal life

Gautier was first married to Beverly J. Gerber; the marriage ended in divorce after they had three children together. He was divorced from his second wife, actress Barbara Stuart,[8] and his final marriage was to Tess Hightower, a psychologist.[2] He had three children, Chrissie, Randy and Denise, six grandchildren as well as a stepdaughter, Jennifer and her two children.

His son Randy, nicknamed Rand, had both a brief stint in pornography under the name Austin Moore, and would in 1995 steal a videotape from the home of Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson, containing footage they had filmed of themselves having sex while on vacation. Rand, along with a distributor, released it on the Internet, and it became one of the first widespread celebrity sex tapes.[9][10]

Gautier died on January 13, 2017, at an assisted living facility in Arcadia, California, following a long illness.[2]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	Ensign Pulver	Stefanowski
1965–1970	Get Smart	Hymie the Robot	6 episodes
1967	Divorce American Style	Larry Strickland
1968	Maryjane	Bearded prisoner	Uncredited/Writer
1972	Wild in the Sky	Diver	Writer and producer
1974	Hawkins		Episode: "Murder in the Slave Trade"; Season 1, Episode 5
1974	Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Werewolf	Carl Kolchak's swinging roommate on the cruise
1974	The Rockford Files	Carl	Episode: "The Countess"; season 1, episode 3
1975	The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery	Oscar Cornell
1975	When Things Were Rotten	Robin Hood	13 episodes
1976	Charlie's Angles	Barry Kingsbrook	Episode: "Homes, $weet Homes"; season 4, episode 18
1977	Fun with Dick and Jane	Dr. Will
1977	The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries: The Mystery of the Flying Courier	Tail Gunner
1977	Billy Jack Goes to Washington	Governor Hubert Hopper
1978	Wonder Woman (TV series)	Count Cagliostro	Episode: "Diana's Disappearing Act"
1979	$weepstake$	Victor	Season 1, episode 7
1980	Marathon	Bud	TV Movie
1981	Happy Days	Dr. Ludlow	Episode: "Welcome to My Nightmare"; Season 8, episode 11
1981–1989	The Smurfs	Wooly Smurf	Voice
1985–1986	Inhumanoids	Crygen, Magnakor, Pyre	Voice
1986	Foofur	Louis	Voice
1986–1987	The Transformers	Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime	Voice
1986	G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero	Serpentor	Voice
1986	GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords	Brimstone / Bugsie / Klaws / Narlihog	Voice
1987	G.I. Joe: The Movie	Serpentor	Voice
1987	Matlock	Bobby Freemont	Episode: "The Gambler"; Season 2, Episode 7
1988	Glitch!	Julius Lazar
1988	The New Yogi Bear Show	Additional Voices
1990	Tom & Jerry Kids	Spike the Dog	Voice
1992	The Naked Truth	The Bartender
1992	Garfield and Friends	Skip Yenta	Guest star/Voice

Bibliography

• Gautier, Dick (1993). Child's Garden of Weirdness. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-0804818254.
• Gautier, Dick (1994). Drawing and Cartooning 1,001 Figures in Action. Perigee Books. ISBN 978-0399518591.
• Gautier, Dick (1995). Drawing and Cartooning 1,001 Caricatures. Perigee Books. ISBN 978-0399519116.
• Gautier, Dick (1997). Creating Comic Characters. Perigee Books. ISBN 978-0399523519.

References

External links

• Dick Gautier at IMDb
• Dick Gautier at the TCM Movie Database
• Dick Gautier at the Internet Broadway Database
• Dick Gautier at Find a Grave

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Richard G. Gautier (Culver City, California; 30 de octubre de 1931-Arcadia, California; 13 de enero de 2017),[1] conocido como Dick Gautier, fue un actor, comediante y compositor estadounidense, famoso por haber interpretado el robot humanoide Hymie (conocido como Jaime en Hispanoamérica) en la serie de televisión Get Smart (Superagente 86 en ciertos países hispanohablantes) y también en la película Get Smart, Again (1989), derivada de la serie.

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