Richard Dysart

Acting

Richard Dysart

Born March 30, 1929 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Died April 5, 2015 · aged 86

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…

Known For

The ThingThe Thing · 1982
The Thing
★ 8.11982
MovieHorrorMystery
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Back to the Future Part IIIBack to the Future Part III · 1990
Back to the Future Part III
★ 7.51990
MovieAdventureComedy
The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
Wall StreetWall Street · 1987
Wall Street
★ 7.21987
MovieCrimeDrama
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, who takes the youth under his wing.
Hard RainHard Rain · 1998
Hard Rain
★ 5.91998
MovieThrillerCrime
An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside.
Pale RiderPale Rider · 1985
Pale Rider
★ 7.21985
MovieWesternDrama
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
MaskMask · 1985
Mask
★ 7.31985
MovieDrama
A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
Being ThereBeing There · 1979
Being There
★ 7.61979
MovieComedyDrama
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 he has learned from television.
Warning SignWarning Sign · 1985
Warning Sign
★ 6.01985
MovieDramaScience Fiction
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.

Filmography

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It Happened One ChristmasIt Happened One Christmas · 1977
It Happened One Christmas
★ 4.71977
MovieTV MovieComedy
It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary Bailey Hatch is praying for guidance on what to do about an incident no fault of her own which threatens her name and the community standing of her longtime family business, the Bailey Building and Loan, which she took over after the passing of her father. What Mary does not know is that most in town, including her husband George Hatch and their children, are also praying for her. All the prayers are heard by Joseph, God's gatekeeper of prayers. As there are no other angels available on such a busy day, Joseph assigns Clara Oddbody, angel second class (i.e. she has yet to receive her wings), to Mary's case, which he reluctantly does as Clara has never been assigned a case on her own in the two hundred years she's been in heaven for good reason.

Peter Bailey

L.A. LawL.A. Law · 1986
L.A. Law
★ 7.01986
SeriesDramaWar & Politics
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 Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.

Leland McKenzie