Richard Dysart

Richard Dysart

Birthday: 1929-03-30

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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
Back to the Future Part III

The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc...

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The Thing
The Thing

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its...

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Being There
Being There

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old ...

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Mask
Mask

A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to liv...

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The Day of the Locust
The Day of the Locust

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the l...

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Prophecy
Prophecy

When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Ver...

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The Hospital
The Hospital

Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his perso...

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Pale Rider
Pale Rider

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to en...

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Warning Sign
Warning Sign

An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister ...

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The Terminal Man
The Terminal Man

As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience viole...

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Day One
Day One

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the he...

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Truman
Truman

Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from sm...

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The Hindenburg
The Hindenburg

Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the ...

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Bogie
Bogie

The Humphrey Bogart story from the early '30s until his death, covering the period as a struggling y...

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist ar...

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Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision

The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea worl...

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An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People

A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeuti...

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It Happened One Christmas
It Happened One Christmas

It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary...

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Six Against the Rock
Six Against the Rock

In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the isla...

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The Sporting Club
The Sporting Club

The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgrun...

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The Lost Man
The Lost Man

A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."...

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Malice in Wonderland
Malice in Wonderland

Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers ...

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Your Alcohol I.Q.
Your Alcohol I.Q.

Just how much do you know about alcohol consumption? Take this video quiz to find out!...

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Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour
Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour

Jay Leno hosts "Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour," a one hour special featuring a humorous look at the ...

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First, You Cry
First, You Cry

The story of television news correspondent Betty Rollin and her battle with breast cancer, and how h...

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Meteor
Meteor

After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards...

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People vs. Jean Harris
People vs. Jean Harris

This dramatic re-enactment premiered a mere nine weeks after the actual headline-making trial of the...

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Moving Target
Moving Target

A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home...

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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by setti...

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The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, w...

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Petulia
Petulia

Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new ...

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Everything Is Terrible! The Movie
Everything Is Terrible! The Movie

The fine folks at EIT have spent years digging thought thrift establishments, video caverns, and hau...

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Panther
Panther

In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as ...

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The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn....

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The Falcon and the Snowman
The Falcon and the Snowman

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend ...

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Riding with Death
Riding with Death

Agent Sam Casey is in a satellite explosion and the radiation turns him invisible. He gets a watch t...

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Blood & Orchids
Blood & Orchids

Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and...

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Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Missing Children: A Mother's Story

A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new h...

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L.A. Law: The Movie
L.A. Law: The Movie

Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law...

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A Child Is Missing
A Child Is Missing

A hermit living in the Washington Mountains stumbles upon a boy who has been kidnapped. He does ever...

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The Last Days of Patton
The Last Days of Patton

Gen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of...

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Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair
Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair

The 1960s. Bobby Kennedy is in power in Washington. Marilyn Monroe is a legendary film star. For yea...

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Love with the Proper Stranger
Love with the Proper Stranger

Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, enga...

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Mickey's 60th Birthday
Mickey's 60th Birthday

This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat f...

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Wall Street
Wall Street

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on ...

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Churchill and the Generals
Churchill and the Generals

The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during Wo...

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Hard Rain
Hard Rain

An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside....

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Bitter Harvest
Bitter Harvest

A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agri...

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Shadow Game
Shadow Game

Workers in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fai...

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L.A. Law: Pilot
L.A. Law: Pilot

Pilot episode for the TV series introduces the lawyers and employees of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney a...

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Corwin
Corwin

Biography of Norman Corwin, the great writer, producer and director of the Golden Age of Radio. Acto...

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Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2

Spawn - having become plagued by nightmares - discovers that his former Special Forces partner, Chap...

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Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle
Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle

As Spawn struggles to control his own destiny, he is caught between the forces of Heaven and Hell. H...

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