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Richard Allen Dysart (March 30, 1929 – April 5, 2015) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as Leland McKenzie in the television series L.A. Law (1986–1994), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award from four consecutive nominations. In film, he held supporting roles in Being There (1979), The Thing (1982), Mask (1985), Pale Rider (1985) and Wall Street (1987).

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Richard Dysart
Dysart in 1988
Born	Richard Allen Dysart (1929-03-30)March 30, 1929 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	April 5, 2015(2015-04-05) (aged 86) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Other names	Richard A. Dysart
Education	Cony High School Gould Academy Emerson College George Washington University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1953–2004
Spouse	Kathryn Jacobi ​ (m. 1987)​
Children	1

Early life

Richard Dysart was born to Alice (née Hennigar) and Douglas Dysart, a podiatrist, near Boston, Massachusetts on March 30, 1929.[1] Dysart was raised in Skowhegan, Maine and Augusta, Maine.[1] He attended Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine. At the encouragement of his mother, Dysart performed in summer stock at the Lakewood Theater near Skowhegan.[1] He also worked at a local radio station.[2]

He earned both bachelor's and master's in speech communication from Emerson College in Boston, although his undergraduate education was interrupted due to his service for four years in the United States Air Force during the Korean War.[1][3] At Emerson he performed on stage,[1] and he was a class officer and student government vice-president.[3] He was a brother of the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity.[3] He also studied at George Washington University.[3] He returned for his master's degree later, completing it in 1981.[3]

Career

Dysart's acting career began on the stage. He was a founding member of the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, California, which began in 1960.[2] He performed on Broadway in All in Good Time (1965), A Place Without Doors (1970-1971), The Little Foxes revival as Horace Giddens (1967–1968), and That Championship Season (1972–1974).[4]

In 1979, Dysart portrayed a good-hearted physician in the film Being There, starring Peter Sellers and Melvyn Douglas. In 1980, he played Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in the television film The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd. He voiced the kindly miner Uncle Pom in the Disney English-language version of Hayao Miyazaki's 1986 adventure classic Castle in the Sky and the character of Cogliostro on Todd McFarlane's Spawn: The Animated Series, which aired on HBO.

His other movie credits included roles in The Hindenburg, An Enemy of the People, Prophecy, The Thing, Pale Rider, and Day One (with L.A. Law co-star Michael Tucker). Dysart created the role of Coach in the original Broadway production of Jason Miller's Pulitzer Prize winning play, That Championship Season in 1973. He appeared in an episode of the 1976 CBS television series Sara.

The scene in which his L.A. Law character, Leland McKenzie, who was the patriarchal and stiff founder of a successful law firm, was revealed to be in bed with competitor Rosalind Shays (Diana Muldaur) was ranked as the 38th greatest moment in television in an issue of Egg magazine. He earned one Emmy Award, and three more nominations, for his role on L.A. Law.[5][6]

Honors and awards

Dysart received a Drama Desk Award in 1972 and an Emmy Award in 1992.

Personal life and death

Dysart was married three times. The first two marriages resulted in divorce. He and his third wife, artist Kathryn Jacobi, were married from 1987 until his death. He had no children of his own, but had a stepson from his third wife and two step-grandchildren.[1]

Dysart wore a hearing aid, and would wear it during filming.

Dysart died at home in Santa Monica, California on April 5, 2015, after a long battle with cancer.[1] He was 86 years old.[2]

Selected filmography

References

External links

• Richard Dysart at IMDb
• Richard Dysart at the TCM Movie Database
• Richard Dysart at the Internet Broadway Database
• Richard Dysart at Find a Grave
• Richard Dysart at Internet Off-Broadway Database

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[de] Richard Dysart

Richard Dysart (* 30. März 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts; † 5. April 2015 in Santa Monica, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Film- und Fernsehschauspieler. Er wirkte in der Fernsehserie L.A. Law – Staranwälte, Tricks, Prozesse mit, die von 1986 bis 1994 ausgestrahlt wurde.

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- [en] Richard Dysart

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[es] Richard Dysart

Richard Dysart (Boston, Massachusetts; 30 de marzo de 1929-Santa Mónica, California; 5 de abril de 2015) fue un actor estadounidense principalmente conocido por su participación en la serie L.A. Law desde 1986 hasta 1994, por la que recibió cuatro nominaciones consecutivas en los Premios Emmy y que obtuvo en 1992.

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