Richard 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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Movies (43)
Everything Is Terrible! The Movie
as Self (archive footage)
2009
Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
as The Ancient Mariner (voice)
2004
L.A. Law: The Movie
as Leland McKenzie
2002
Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle
as Cogliostro
1999
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
as Cogliostro
1998
Hard Rain
as Henry Sears
1998
Corwin
as Self
1996
A Child Is Missing
as Riley Hallihan
1995
Truman
as Henry L. Stimson
1995
Panther
as J. Edgar Hoover
1995
Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair
as J. Edgar Hoover
1993
Back to the Future Part III
as Barbwire Salesman
1990
Day One
as President Harry S. Truman
1989
Mickey's 60th Birthday
as Leland McKenzie
1988
Moving Target
as Arthur Cambridge
1988
Your Alcohol I.Q.
as Self
1988
Wall Street
as Cromwell
1987
Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour
as Self
1987
Six Against the Rock
as Warden James Johnston
1987
The Last Days of Patton
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
1986
L.A. Law: Pilot
as Leland McKenzie
1986
Blood & Orchids
as Harvey Koster
1986
Warning Sign
as Dr. Nielsen
1985
Pale Rider
as Coy LaHood
1985
Mask
as Abe
1985
The Falcon and the Snowman
as Dr. Lee
1985
Malice in Wonderland
as Louis B. Mayer
1985
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
as Hunter Burgess
1982
The Thing
as Dr. Copper
1982
Bitter Harvest
as Dr. Morton Freeman
1981
People vs. Jean Harris
as Judge Russell R. Leggett
1981
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
as Edwin Stanton
1980
Bogie
as Jack Warner
1980
Being There
as Dr. Robert Allenby
1979
Meteor
as Secretary of Defense
1979
Churchill and the Generals
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
1979
Prophecy
as Trevor Isley
1979
First, You Cry
as Dr. Brennerman
1978
An Enemy of the People
as Aslaksen
1978
It Happened One Christmas
as Peter Bailey
1977
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as President Ulysses S. Grant
1977
Riding with Death
as Leonard Driscoll
1976
The Hindenburg
as Lehman
1975
