Richard Dysart

Born: 1929-03-30

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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as Dr. Copper
Released: 1982-06-25

In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station...

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as Barbwire Salesman
Released: 1990-05-25

The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean...

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Being There

as Dr. Robert Allenby
Released: 1979-12-19

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

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Wall Street

as Cromwell
Released: 1987-12-10

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

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Pale Rider

as Coy LaHood
Released: 1985-06-28

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

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Mask

as Abe
Released: 1985-03-08

A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal...

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Hard Rain

as Henry Sears
Released: 1998-01-16

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

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Meteor

as Secretary of Defense
Released: 1979-10-19

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

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The Day of the Locust

as Claude Estee
Released: 1975-05-07

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

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The Falcon and the Snowman

as Dr. Lee
Released: 1985-01-25

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

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The Hindenburg

as Lehman
Released: 1975-12-25

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

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Prophecy

as Trevor Isley
Released: 1979-09-14

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

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The Hospital

as Dr. Welbeck
Released: 1971-12-14

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

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Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle

as Cogliostro
Released: 1999-08-17

Spawn is still on his quest to return to his love, Wanda, but is still in trouble. He is guided...

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The Terminal Man

as Dr. John Ellis
Released: 1974-06-19

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

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Warning Sign

as Dr. Nielsen
Released: 1985-08-23

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

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Panther

as J. Edgar Hoover
Released: 1995-05-03

Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense....

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Truman

as Henry L. Stimson
Released: 1995-09-09

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

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Love with the Proper Stranger

as Accountant (uncredited)
Released: 1963-12-25

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

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Petulia

as Motel Receptionist
Released: 1968-06-10

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

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An Enemy of the People

as Aslaksen
Released: 1978-03-17

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

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The Last Days of Patton

as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Released: 1986-12-15

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

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Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2

as Cogliostro
Released: 1998-08-25

Upon his return to "life", Spawn seeks out Wanda, who had apparently got over the grief of...

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Todd McFarlane's Spawn

as Cogliostro (voice)
Released: 1997-05-15

There is a war going on between Heaven and Hell. Earth is the battlefield. Human souls are the...

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The Lost Man

as Barnes
Released: 1969-07-11

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

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Moving Target

as Arthur Cambridge
Released: 1988-02-08

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

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

as Master Bryant
Released: 1974-01-31

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

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Blood & Orchids

as Harvey Koster
Released: 1986-02-23

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

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Malice in Wonderland

as Louis B. Mayer
Released: 1985-01-01

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

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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

as Edwin Stanton
Released: 1980-03-25

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

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It Happened One Christmas

as Peter Bailey
Released: 1977-12-11

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

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Everything Is Terrible! The Movie

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2009-06-20

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

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L.A. Law: The Movie

as Leland McKenzie
Released: 2002-05-12

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

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Missing Children: A Mother's Story

as Hunter Burgess
Released: 1982-12-01

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

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Six Against the Rock

as Warden James Johnston
Released: 1987-05-18

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

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Riding with Death

as Leonard Driscoll
Released: 1976-01-01

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

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Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision

as The Ancient Mariner (voice)
Released: 2004-01-01

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

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Bogie

as Jack Warner
Released: 1980-03-04

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

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The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

as President Ulysses S. Grant
Released: 1977-12-01

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

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Day One

as President Harry S. Truman
Released: 1989-05-12

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

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Churchill and the Generals

as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Released: 1979-09-23

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

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A Child Is Missing

as Riley Hallihan
Released: 1995-10-01

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

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The Sporting Club

as Spengler
Released: 1971-02-28

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

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First, You Cry

as Dr. Brennerman
Released: 1978-11-08

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

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Bitter Harvest

as Dr. Morton Freeman
Released: 1981-05-18

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

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L.A. Law: Pilot

as Leland McKenzie
Released: 1986-09-15

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

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Your Alcohol I.Q.

as Self
Released: 1988-01-01

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

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Mickey's 60th Birthday

as Leland McKenzie
Released: 1988-11-13

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

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The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

as Father
Released: 1974-10-17

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

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Shadow Game

as uncredited
Released: 1969-05-07

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

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Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour

as Self
Released: 1987-11-25

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

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People vs. Jean Harris

as Judge Russell R. Leggett
Released: 1981-05-07

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

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Columbo

as Max Duval
First aired: 1971-09-15

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently...

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Batman: The Animated Series

as Dr. Bartholomew (voice)
First aired: 1992-09-05

Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in...

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Cannon

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-09-14

Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26,...

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L.A. Law

as Leland McKenzie
First aired: 1986-09-15

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from...

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Baretta

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-01-17

Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show...

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The Defenders

as Mr. Westfall
First aired: 1961-09-16

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed...

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All in the Family

as Russ DeKuyper
First aired: 1971-01-12

Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important...

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Maude

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-12

Well-educated and upper middle class, Maude Findlay is the archetypal feminist of her...

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Spawn

as Nicholas Cogliostro (voice)
First aired: 1997-05-16

Todd McFarlane's Spawn is an animated television series which aired on HBO from 1997 through...

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Doctors' Hospital

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-09-10

Doctors' Hospital is an American medical drama that ran on NBC during the 1975–1976 season.

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The Andros Targets

as Dr. Kipness
First aired: 1977-01-31

James Sutorious star as Mike Andros, a newspaper investigative reporter who seeks out corruption...

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E! True Hollywood Story

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-08-21

E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Lincoln

as Judge David Davis
First aired: 1974-09-06

Sandburg's Lincoln is a six-part mini-series starring Hal Holbrook as Abraham Lincoln, the...

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