Richard Dysart
Date of birth: 1929-03-30
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Richard A. Dysart, Richard Allen 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.
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Back to the Future Part III
1990-05-25
The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc
The Thing
1982-06-25
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its
Being There
1979-12-19
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old
Mask
1985-03-08
A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to liv
The Day of the Locust
1975-05-07
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the l
Prophecy
1979-09-14
When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Ver
The Hospital
1971-12-14
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his perso
Pale Rider
1985-06-28
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to en
Warning Sign
1985-08-23
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister
The Terminal Man
1974-06-19
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience viole
Day One
1989-05-12
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the he
Truman
1995-09-09
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from sm
The Hindenburg
1975-12-25
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the
Bogie
1980-03-04
The Humphrey Bogart story from the early '30s until his death, covering the period as a struggling y
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
1974-10-17
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist ar
Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
2004-01-01
The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea worl
An Enemy of the People
1978-03-17
A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeuti
It Happened One Christmas
1977-12-11
It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary
Six Against the Rock
1987-05-18
In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the isla
The Sporting Club
1971-02-28
The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgrun
The Lost Man
1969-07-11
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
Malice in Wonderland
1985-01-01
Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers
Your Alcohol I.Q.
1988-01-01
Just how much do you know about alcohol consumption? Take this video quiz to find out!
Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour
1987-11-25
Jay Leno hosts "Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour," a one hour special featuring a humorous look at the
First, You Cry
1978-11-08
The story of television news correspondent Betty Rollin and her battle with breast cancer, and how h
Meteor
1979-10-19
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards
People vs. Jean Harris
1981-05-07
This dramatic re-enactment premiered a mere nine weeks after the actual headline-making trial of the
Moving Target
1988-02-08
A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
1980-03-25
The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by setti
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
1974-10-17
After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, w
Petulia
1968-06-10
Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new
Everything Is Terrible! The Movie
2009-06-20
The fine folks at EIT have spent years digging thought thrift establishments, video caverns, and hau
Panther
1995-05-03
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977-12-01
General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985-01-25
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend
Riding with Death
1976-01-01
Agent Sam Casey is in a satellite explosion and the radiation turns him invisible. He gets a watch t
Blood & Orchids
1986-02-23
Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
1982-12-01
A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new h
L.A. Law: The Movie
2002-05-12
Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law
A Child Is Missing
1995-10-01
A hermit living in the Washington Mountains stumbles upon a boy who has been kidnapped. He does ever
The Last Days of Patton
1986-12-15
Gen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of
Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair
1993-08-04
The 1960s. Bobby Kennedy is in power in Washington. Marilyn Monroe is a legendary film star. For yea
Love with the Proper Stranger
1963-12-25
Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, enga
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988-11-13
This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat f
Wall Street
1987-12-10
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on
Churchill and the Generals
1979-09-23
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during Wo
Hard Rain
1998-01-16
An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside.
Bitter Harvest
1981-05-18
A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agri
Shadow Game
1969-05-07
Workers in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fai
L.A. Law: Pilot
1986-09-15
Pilot episode for the TV series introduces the lawyers and employees of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney a
Corwin
1996-06-14
Biography of Norman Corwin, the great writer, producer and director of the Golden Age of Radio. Acto
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
1998-08-25
Spawn - having become plagued by nightmares - discovers that his former Special Forces partner, Chap
Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle
1999-05-23
As Spawn struggles to control his own destiny, he is caught between the forces of Heaven and Hell. H