Richard Dysart

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1929-03-30

Died: 2015-04-05

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1963	Love with the Proper Stranger	Accountant (uncredited)	68
2	1968	Petulia	Motel Receptionist	59
3	1969	Shadow Game		100
4	1969	The Lost Man	Barnes	40
5	1971	The Sporting Club	Spengler	39
6	1971	The Hospital	Dr. Welbeck	66
7	1974	The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman	Master Bryant	64
8	1974	The Terminal Man	Dr. John Ellis	54
9	1974	The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder	Father	52
10	1975	The Day of the Locust	Claude Estee	63
11	1975	The Hindenburg	Lehman	63
12	1976	Riding with Death	Leonard Driscoll	26
13	1977	The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer	President Ulysses S. Grant	0
14	1977	It Happened One Christmas	Peter Bailey	37
15	1978	An Enemy of the People	Aslaksen	65
16	1978	First, You Cry	Dr. Brennerman	0
17	1979	Prophecy	Trevor Isley	55
18	1979	Churchill and the Generals	Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower	0
19	1979	Meteor	Secretary of Defense	51
20	1979	Being There	Dr. Robert Allenby	76
21	1980	Bogie	Jack Warner	50
22	1980	The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd	Edwin Stanton	60
23	1981	People vs. Jean Harris	Judge Russell R. Leggett	0
24	1981	Bitter Harvest	Dr. Morton Freeman	10
25	1982	The Thing	Dr. Copper	81
26	1982	Missing Children: A Mother's Story	Hunter Burgess	67
27	1985	Malice in Wonderland	Louis B. Mayer	71
28	1985	The Falcon and the Snowman	Dr. Lee	65
29	1985	Mask	Abe	72
30	1985	Pale Rider	Coy LaHood	72
31	1985	Warning Sign	Dr. Nielsen	60
32	1986	Blood & Orchids	Harvey Koster	65
33	1986	L.A. Law: Pilot	Leland McKenzie	0
34	1986	The Last Days of Patton	Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower	64
35	1987	Six Against the Rock	Warden James Johnston	49
36	1987	Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour	Self	0
37	1987	Wall Street	Cromwell	72
38	1988	Your Alcohol I.Q.	Self	0
39	1988	Moving Target	Arthur Cambridge	64
40	1988	Mickey's 60th Birthday	Leland McKenzie	68
41	1989	Day One	President Harry S. Truman	65
42	1990	Back to the Future Part III	Barbwire Salesman	75
43	1993	Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair	J. Edgar Hoover	60
44	1995	Panther	J. Edgar Hoover	63
45	1995	Truman	Henry L. Stimson	76
46	1995	A Child Is Missing	Riley Hallihan	65
47	1996	Corwin	Self	0
48	1997	Todd McFarlane's Spawn	Cogliostro (voice)	69
49	1998	Hard Rain	Henry Sears	58
50	1998	Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2	Cogliostro (voice(	67
51	1999	Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle	Cogliostro (voice)	63
52	2002	L.A. Law: The Movie	Leland McKenzie	76
53	2004	Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision	The Ancient Mariner (voice)	40
54	2009	Everything Is Terrible! The Movie	Self (archive footage)	71

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame		87
2	1961	The Defenders	Mr. Westfall	62
3	1966	CBS Playhouse		70
4	1971	All in the Family	Russ DeKuyper	78
5	1971	Cannon		64
6	1971	Columbo	Max Duval	81
7	1972	Maude		68
8	1974	Lincoln	Judge David Davis	80
9	1975	Baretta		63
10	1975	Doctors' Hospital		50
11	1975	Doc		0
12	1976	Gemini Man	Leonard Driscoll	69
13	1977	The Andros Targets	Dr. Kipness	50
14	1986	L.A. Law	Leland McKenzie	71
15	1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Dr. Bartholomew (voice)	85
16	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
17	1997	Spawn	Nicholas Cogliostro (voice)	79