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
1998
- Hard Rain as Henry Sears
- Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 as Cogliostro
1997
- Spawn as Nicholas Cogliostro (voice)
1996
- E! True Hollywood Story
- Corwin as Self
1995
- Panther as J. Edgar Hoover
- Truman as Henry L. Stimson
- 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
- Mickey's 60th Birthday as Leland McKenzie
- Moving Target as Arthur Cambridge
- Your Alcohol I.Q. as Self
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
- Pale Rider as Coy LaHood
- The Falcon and the Snowman as Dr. Lee
- Warning Sign as Dr. Nielsen
- Malice in Wonderland as Louis B. Mayer
1982
- The Thing as Dr. Copper
- Missing Children: A Mother's Story as Hunter Burgess
1981
- Bitter Harvest as Dr. Morton Freeman
- People vs. Jean Harris as Judge Russell R. Leggett
1980
- Bogie as Jack Warner
- The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd as Edwin Stanton
1979
- Being There as Dr. Robert Allenby
- Meteor as Secretary of Defense
- Prophecy as Trevor Isley
- Churchill and the Generals as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
1978
- An Enemy of the People as Aslaksen
- First, You Cry as Dr. Brennerman
1977
- The Andros Targets as Dr. Kipness
- The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer as President Ulysses S. Grant
- It Happened One Christmas as Peter Bailey
1976
- Gemini Man as Leonard Driscoll
- Riding with Death as Leonard Driscoll
1975
- Baretta
- Doc
- Doctors' Hospital
- The Hindenburg as Lehman
- The Day of the Locust as Claude Estee
1974
- Lincoln as David Davis
- The Terminal Man as Dr. John Ellis
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman as Master Bryant
- The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder as Father
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
- CBS Playhouse as Jerry Arnst
1963
- Love with the Proper Stranger as Accountant (uncredited)
1961
- The Defenders as Mr. Westfall