Richard Dysart

Actor Mar 30 (died age 86) Boston, Massachusetts, USA 1951–2009 (58 year career)

6.3 avg rating

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 Wi…

Known For

Film

The Thing

Dr. Copper

Film

Back to the Future Part III

Barbwire Salesman

Film

Wall Street

Cromwell

Film

Being There

Dr. Robert Allenby

Film

Pale Rider

Coy LaHood

Film

Spawn

Nicholas Cogliostro (voice)

Film

Mask

Abe

Film

Hard Rain

Henry Sears

Filmography

Acting (71)

Movies (53)

Everything Is Terrible! The Movie

2009

as Self (archive footage)

6.9

Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision

2004

as The Ancient Mariner (voice)

4.0

L.A. Law: The Movie

2002

as Leland McKenzie

7.2

Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle

as Cogliostro

Hard Rain

as Henry Sears

Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2

1998

as Cogliostro

8.0

Corwin

1996

as Self

Panther

as J. Edgar Hoover

Truman

as Henry L. Stimson

A Child Is Missing

as Riley Hallihan

Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair

1993

as J. Edgar Hoover

6.0

Back to the Future Part III

1990

as Barbwire Salesman

7.5

Day One

1989

as President Harry S. Truman

5.8

Your Alcohol I.Q.

1988

as Self

Moving Target

1988

as Arthur Cambridge

6.0

Mickey's 60th Birthday

as Leland McKenzie

Wall Street

as Cromwell

Six Against the Rock

as Warden James Johnston

4.1

Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour

1987

as Self

Blood & Orchids

1986

as Harvey Koster

6.5

The Last Days of Patton

1986

as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

6.2

L.A. Law: Pilot

1986

as Leland McKenzie

Pale Rider

1985

as Coy LaHood

7.2

The Falcon and the Snowman

as Dr. Lee

Mask

as Abe

Warning Sign

as Dr. Nielsen

Malice in Wonderland

as Louis B. Mayer

The Thing

as Dr. Copper

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

1982

as Hunter Burgess

6.7

People vs. Jean Harris

1981

as Judge Russell R. Leggett

Bitter Harvest

1981

as Dr. Morton Freeman

1.0

Bogie

1980

as Jack Warner

5.0

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

1980

as Edwin Stanton

4.6

Being There

1979

as Dr. Robert Allenby

7.6

Meteor

1979

as Secretary of Defense

5.2

Prophecy

1979

as Trevor Isley

5.4

Churchill and the Generals

1979

as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

An Enemy of the People

1978

as Aslaksen

6.6

First, You Cry

1978

as Dr. Brennerman

It Happened One Christmas

1977

as Peter Bailey

4.6

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

1977

as President Ulysses S. Grant

2.0

Riding with Death

1976

as Leonard Driscoll

2.6

The Day of the Locust

as Claude Estee

The Hindenburg

as Lehman

The Terminal Man

as Dr. John Ellis

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

1974

as Father

5.2

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

as Master Bryant

The Hospital

as Dr. Welbeck

The Sporting Club

as Spengler

The Lost Man

as Barnes

Shadow Game

as Jerry Arnst

Petulia

as Motel Receptionist

5.9

Love with the Proper Stranger

1963

as Accountant (uncredited)

6.8

Television (18)

Spawn

1997

as Nicholas Cogliostro (voice)

8.0

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

8.1

Batman: The Animated Series

1992

as Dr. Bartholomew (voice)

L.A. Law

as Leland McKenzie

Blood & Orchids

as Harvey Koster

The Andros Targets

as Dr. Kipness

Gemini Man

as Leonard Driscoll

Baretta

Doctors' Hospital

Doc

Lincoln

as David Davis

Maude

Columbo

as Max Duval

Cannon

All in the Family

as Russ DeKuyper

CBS Playhouse

The Defenders

as Mr. Westfall

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

8.6