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