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Richard Dysart

Actor | * 03/30/1929 († 86, 04/05/2015) | Boston, Massachusetts (United States of America (USA))
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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 senior partner Leland McKenzie in the television series L.A. Law (1986–1994), for which he won a 1992 Primetime Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series after four consecutive nominations. In film, he held supporting roles in The Hospital (1971), Being There (1979), The Thing (1982), Mask (1985), Pale Rider (1985) and Wall Street (1987). ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | TV Movies | Comedies

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A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth ...

Wall Street

R

1987 | 3.6/5 | 2h 6min
Crime, Drama
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A team of American scientists investigate the empty, destroyed base of their Norwegian counterparts in Antarctica, only to discover a terrifying life force that can take the form of its prey. ...

The Thing

R

1982 | 4.0/5 | 1h 49min
Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what h ...

Being There

PG

1979 | 3.8/5 | 2h 10min
Comedy, Drama
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L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of ...

L.A. Law

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1986 | 3.6/5 | 45min per episode
Drama, War & Politics
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Awards & Nominations for Richard Dysart

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series 4x Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
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Movies with Richard Dysart as Actor(54)

as Self (archive footage)2009 Everything Is Terrible! The Movie
as The Ancient Mariner (voice)2004 Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
as Leland McKenzie2002 L.A. Law: The Movie
as Cogliostro1999 Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle
as Cogliostro1998 Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
as Henry Sears1998 Hard Rain
as Cogliostro (voice)1997 Todd McFarlane's Spawn
as J. Edgar Hoover1995 Panther
as Riley Hallihan1995 A Child Is Missing
as Henry L. Stimson1995 Truman
as J. Edgar Hoover1993 Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair
as Barbwire Salesman1990 Back to the Future Part III
as President Harry S. Truman1989 Day One
as himself1988 Your Alcohol I.Q.
as Arthur Cambridge1988 Moving Target
as Leland McKenzie1988 Mickey's 60th Birthday
as Warden James Johnston1987 Six Against the Rock
as Cromwell1987 Wall Street
as himself1987 Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour
as Harvey Koster1986 Blood & Orchids
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower1986 The Last Days of Patton
as Leland McKenzie1986 L.A. Law: Pilot
as Abe1985 Mask
as Dr. Nielsen1985 Warning Sign
as Louis B. Mayer1985 Malice in Wonderland
as Dr. Lee1985 The Falcon and the Snowman
as Coy LaHood1985 Pale Rider
as Hunter Burgess1982 Missing Children: A Mother's Story
as Dr. Copper1982 The Thing
as Judge Russell R. Leggett1981 People vs. Jean Harris
as Dr. Morton Freeman1981 Bitter Harvest
as Jack Warner1980 Bogie
as Trevor Isley1980 Prophecy
as Edwin Stanton1980 The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
as Secretary of Defense1979 Meteor
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower1979 Churchill and the Generals
as Dr. Robert Allenby1979 Being There
as Aslaksen1978 An Enemy of the People
as Dr. Brennerman1978 First, You Cry
as President Ulysses S. Grant1977 The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as Peter Bailey1977 It Happened One Christmas
as Leonard Driscoll1976 Gemini Man [Pilot]
as Leonard Driscoll1976 Riding with Death
as Claude Estee1975 The Day of the Locust
as Lehman1975 The Hindenburg
as Dr. John Ellis1974 The Terminal Man
as Father1974 The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
as Master Bryant1974 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
as Dr. Welbeck1971 The Hospital
as Spengler1971 The Sporting Club
1969 CBS Playhouse: Shadow Game
as Barnes1969 The Lost Man
as Motel Receptionist1968 Petulia
as Accountant (uncredited)1963 Love with the Proper Stranger

TV Shows/Series with Richard Dysart as Actor(16)

as Nicholas Cogliostro (voice)1997 Spawn
1996 E! True Hollywood Story
as Dr. Bartholomew (voice)1992 Batman: The Animated Series
as Leland McKenzie1986 L.A. Law
as Dr. Kipness1977 The Andros Targets
1975 Baretta
1975 Doc
1975 Doctors' Hospital
as Judge David Davis1974 Lincoln
1972 Maude
as Max Duval1971 Columbo
as Russ DeKuyper1971 All in the Family
1971 Cannon
1966 CBS Playhouse
as Mr. Westfall1961 The Defenders
1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame

Full Name: Richard Dysart
Born: Saturday, 03/30 1929 (March) in Boston, Massachusetts (United States of America (USA))
Died: Sunday, 04/05 2015 (April) in Santa Monica (aged: 86)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Emerson College, Gould Academy, Cony High School
Other names for Richard Dysart (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Richard A. Dysart"
Richard Dysart frequently works together with these people:
Maurice Evans (12x, Actor)
Val Avery (12x, Actor)
Julie Harris (11x, Actress)
William Windom (10x, Actor)
William Shatner (9x, Actor)
Dana Elcar (9x, Actor)
Priscilla Morrill (9x, Actress)
Mark Hamill (8x, Actor)
Murray Hamilton (8x, Actor)
Robert Costanzo (8x, Actor)
Patrick O'Neal (8x, Actor)
Jill Eikenberry (5x, Actress)
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