Richard Dysart
Birthday
1929/03/30
Day of death
2015/04/05 (86 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also know as
Richard A. Dysart
Biography
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Dysart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
(1990) Back to the Future Part III
as Barbwire Salesman
(1982) The Thing
as Dr. Copper
(1979) Being There
as Dr. Robert Allenby
(1985) Mask
as Abe
(1975) The Day of the Locust
as Claude Estee
(1979) Prophecy
as Trevor Isley
(1971) The Hospital
as Dr. Welbeck
(1985) Pale Rider
as Coy LaHood
(1985) Warning Sign
as Dr. Nielsen
(1974) The Terminal Man
as Dr. John Ellis
(1989) Day One
as President Harry S. Truman
(1995) Truman
as Henry L. Stimson
(1975) The Hindenburg
as Lehman
(1997) Todd McFarlane's Spawn
as Cogliostro (voice)
(1980) Bogie
as Jack Warner
(1974) The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
as Master Bryant
(2004) Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
as The Ancient Mariner (voice)
(1978) An Enemy of the People
as Aslaksen
(1977) It Happened One Christmas
as Peter Bailey
(1987) Six Against the Rock
as Warden James Johnston
(1971) The Sporting Club
as Spengler
(1969) The Lost Man
as Barnes
(1985) Malice in Wonderland
as Louis B. Mayer
(1988) Your Alcohol I.Q.
as Self
(1987) Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour
as Self
(1978) First, You Cry
as Dr. Brennerman
(1979) Meteor
as Secretary of Defense
(1981) People vs. Jean Harris
as Judge Russell R. Leggett
(1988) Moving Target
as Arthur Cambridge
(1980) The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
as Edwin Stanton
(1974) The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
as Father
(1968) Petulia
as Motel Receptionist
(2009) Everything Is Terrible! The Movie
as Self (archive footage)
(1995) Panther
as J. Edgar Hoover
(1998) Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
as Cogliostro
(1999) Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle
as Cogliostro
(1977) The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as President Ulysses S. Grant
(1985) The Falcon and the Snowman
as Dr. Lee
(1976) Riding with Death
as Leonard Driscoll
(1986) Blood & Orchids
as Harvey Koster
(1982) Missing Children: A Mother's Story
as Hunter Burgess
(2002) L.A. Law: The Movie
as Leland McKenzie
(1995) A Child Is Missing
as Riley Hallihan
(1986) The Last Days of Patton
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1993) Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair
as J. Edgar Hoover
(1963) Love with the Proper Stranger
as Accountant (uncredited)
(1988) Mickey's 60th Birthday
as Leland McKenzie
(1987) Wall Street
as Cromwell
(1979) Churchill and the Generals
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1998) Hard Rain
as Henry Sears
(1981) Bitter Harvest
as Dr. Morton Freeman
(1969) Shadow Game
as ---
(1986) L.A. Law: Pilot
as Leland McKenzie
(1986) L.A. Law
as Leland McKenzie
(1971) Columbo
as Max Duval
(1971) All in the Family
as Russ DeKuyper
(1972) Maude
as ---
(1975) Baretta
as ---
(1996) E! True Hollywood Story
as ---
(1971) Cannon
as ---
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as ---
(1975) Doc
as ---
(1975) Doctors' Hospital
as ---
(1997) Spawn
as Nicholas Cogliostro (voice)
(1966) CBS Playhouse
as ---
(1961) The Defenders
as Mr. Westfall
(1977) The Andros Targets
as Dr. Kipness
(1992) Batman: The Animated Series
as Dr. Bartholomew (voice)
(1974) Lincoln
as Judge David Davis