Richard Dysart

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Richard Allen Dysart (March 30, 1929 – April 5, 2015) was an American actor.

He is best known for his appearance in the television series L.A. Law (1986-1994), for which he received four consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations and was praised for the first one in 1992.

Early life

Richard Dysart was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 30, 1929, to Alice (née Hennigar) and Douglas Dysart, a podiatrist. Dysart was raised in Skowhegan, Maine, and Augusta, Maine. He attended Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine. Dysart performed in summer stock at the Lakewood Theater near Skowhegan, courtesy of his mother. He also worked at a local radio station.

He earned both a bachelor's and master's degree in speech communication from Emerson College in Boston, but his undergraduate education was interrupted due to his service in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. He appeared on stage at Emerson, as a class officer and student government vice president. He was a brother of Phi Alpha Tau fraternity. He attended George Washington University as a student. He returned for his master's degree later in life, having completed it in 1981.

Personal life and death

Dysart was married three times. Divorce followed the first two marriages. Artist Kathryn Jacobi, he and his third wife were married from 1987 to his death. He had no children of his own, but he had a stepon from his third wife and two step-grandchildren.

Dysart used a hearing aid and would wear it during filming.

After a long battle with cancer, Dysart died at home in Santa Monica, California, on April 5, 2015. He was 86 years old when he died.

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Career

Dysart's acting career began on the stage. He was a founding member of the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, California, which opened in 1960. Horace Giddens (1967–1968), A Place Without Doors (1970-1971), and That Championship Season (1972–1974) were among his performances on Broadway.

Dysart performed a good-hearted physician in the film Being There, starring Peter Sellers and Melvyn Douglas in 1979. In the 1980 film Independence of Dr. Mudd, he played Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. In the Disney English-language version of Hayao Miyazaki's 1986 adventure classic Castle in the Sky, and the character of Cogliostro on Todd McFarlane's Spawn: The Animated Series, he portrayed kindly miner Uncle Pom.

Michael Tucker's other film credits include appearances in The Hindenburg, An Enemy of the People, Prophecy, The Thing, Pale Rider, and Day One (with L.A. Law co-star Michael Tucker). In Jason Miller's original Broadway production of That Championship Season in 1973, Dysart played Coach. He appeared in a 1976 CBS television program Sara.

In an issue of Egg magazine, the scene in which his L.A. law character, Leland McKenzie, the patriarchal and tough founder of a successful law firm, was revealed to be in bed with competitor Rosalind Shays (Diana Muldaur), was ranked as the 38th best moment in television. For his work on L.A. law, he received one Emmy Award and three more nominations.

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