Richard Dysart
Nascimento : 1929-03-30, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Morte : 2015-04-05
História
Was an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Leland McKenzie on the NBC legal drama L.A. Law. Dysart served for four years in the Air Force during the Korean War. In 1979, he was featured in the film Being There, portraying a good-hearted physician. In 1980, he portrayed Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in the TV movie The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd. He also lent his voice to the kindly miner Uncle Pom in the Disney English language version of Hayao Miyazaki's 1986 adventure classic, Castle in the Sky. He starred in movies such as The Last Days of Patton, Being There, The Day of the Locust, The Rumor Mill, Pale Rider, The Falcon and the Snowman, Prophecy, The Thing, Warning Sign, Hard Rain, Mask, An Enemy of the People, The Hospital, and The Hindenburg. The scene where his L.A. Law character, Leland, the patriarchal and stiff founder of a successful law practice, was revealed to be in bed with competitor Rosalind Shays (Diana Muldaur) was ranked as the 38th greatest moment in television in an issue of EGG magazine. He earned one Emmy Award, and three more nominations, for his role as McKenzie on L.A. Law. Dysart was a founding member of the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco. He attended Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine. He received the Drama Desk Award in 1972 and an Emmy Award in 1992. He is a brother of the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity based out of Emerson College in Boston. In 1990, Dysart was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law. He is also a certified open water diver. Dysart and his wife, artist Kathryn Jacobi, have been married since 1987.
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Self (archive footage)
The fine folks at EIT have spent years digging thought thrift establishments, video caverns, and haunted houses throughtout the country in order to create the most mind-melting VHS mash-up imaginable. Literally thousands of hours of video gold have been chopped up into millions of pieces and gluded back together into an ever-multiplying bizarre path to allegorical self-enlightenment and surreal resurrection. Obviously!
The Ancient Mariner (voice)
The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry and myth. The central figure of the film is biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who found in the depths of the sea an ecstatic and visionary fusion of science and art.
Leland McKenzie
Cogliostro
Spawn is still on his quest to return to his love, Wanda, but is still in trouble. He is guided though by Cogliostro, who is the only one who can give him his humanity back.
Cogliostro
Upon his return to "life", Spawn seeks out Wanda, who had apparently got over the grief of having lost Al and married another man, Al's best friend Terry Fitzgerald with whom she seemingly had a daughter, Cyan. Terry, a respectable man, works for a man named Jason Wynn. Wynn is a black-market arms dealer, amongst other things (such as the head of certain government organizations, one of which dispatched Al and his team to Vietnam), and is revealed to be the man responsible for the death of Al Simmons due to a disagreement the two had between each other. Jason's actions would also prove dangerous to the lives of Terry, Wanda and their daughter as well. Realizing that he is no longer the man in Wanda's life, Al swears to protect her and her new family.
Henry Sears
Durante uma chuva torrencial, que deixa uma pequena cidade totalmente ilhada, Tom (Christian Slater), um guarda de segurança de um carro blindado que ficou preso na chuva, vê assaltantes matarem seu parceiro, pois desejam roubar os US$ 3 milhões que estavam sendo transportados. Tom foge com o dinheiro e o esconde em um cemitério, que já está quase submerso. Porém ele logo depois é preso, sob suspeita de ter roubado o dinheiro. É quando quase todos decidem se apossar da grana, inclusive o xerife local (Randy Quaid), que decidiu ter esta fortuna para sua aposentadoria.
Cogliostro (voice)
Todd McFarlane's Spawn is an animated television series which aired on HBO from 1997 through 1999. It is also released on DVD as a film series. It is based on the Spawn comic series from Image Comics, and was nominated for and won an Emmy in 1999 for Outstanding Animation Program (longer than one hour)
Riley Hallihan
A hermit living in the Washington Mountains stumbles upon a boy who has been kidnapped. He does everything in his power to save the boy but he becomes a suspect.
Henry L. Stimson
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.
J. Edgar Hoover
Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points.
J. Edgar Hoover
The 1960s. Bobby Kennedy is in power in Washington. Marilyn Monroe is a legendary film star. For years there has been widespread speculation and rumors of a secret romance between Marilyn and Bobby. Now that story is told for the first time in this account of two very public figures whose brief romance fired the imaginations of millions and fueled debate over their mysterious and untimely deaths.
Barbwire Salesman
Presos em 1955 depois de um estranho estouro de luz, McFly tem que viajar para o ano de 1885 para resgatar Doc Brown de uma morte prematura. Depois de sobreviver a um ataque de índios hostis e de moradores da cidade nada amigáveis, McFly encontra Doc Brown. Mas com Doc apaixonado pela charmosa Clara Clayton, está nas mãos de McFly conseguir tirá-los do velho oeste e voltar para o futuro.
President Harry S. Truman
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
Leland McKenzie
This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat from a Sorcerer and is put under a spell by the angry magi so that no one will recognize him until he finds his own magic within. While Mickey is on his quest, network news teams around the country desperately try to find the famous, beloved mouse who has mysteriously disappeared. On his quest, Mickey goes into the "Cheers" bar, meets up with the characters from "Family Ties", and winds up on Disneyland's Main Street the night before his Birthday celebration is to take place. It is there that he finds he has all the magic inside him that he will ever need. The spell is broken and the Birthday bash commences as the whole World celebrates the beloved Mickey Mouse.
Arthur Cambridge
A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone.
Self
Just how much do you know about alcohol consumption? Take this video quiz to find out!
Cromwell
Bud Fox é um jovem ambicioso que trabalha no mercado de ações. Ele fará de tudo para chamar a atenção do bilionário Gordon Gekko, abandonando qualquer escrúpulo e ética para enriquecer. Mas ele irá aprender que com o sucesso vêm grandes riscos.
self
Jay Leno hosts "Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour," a one hour special featuring a humorous look at the American family.
Warden James Johnston
In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five accomplices, falls apart when they can't obtain a key to unlock a door leading to the yard.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
As a result of General George S. Patton's (George C. Scott) decision to use former Nazis to help reconstruct post-World War II Germany (and publicly defending the practice), General Dwight Eisenhower (Richard Dysart) removes him from that task and reassigns him to supervise "an army of clerks" whose task is to write the official history of the U.S. military involvement in World War II. Shortly thereafter, on December 9, 1945 (a day before he was to transfer back to the United States), Patton is involved in an automobile accident that seriously injures his spinal column, paralyzing him. As he lies in his hospital bed, he flashes back to earlier pivotal moments in his life, including stories his father told him of his grandfather's service during the American Civil War which inspired him to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point, his marriage to his wife Beatrice (Eva Marie Saint), and his championing of the use of tanks in the United States Army.
Leland McKenzie
Pilot episode for the TV series introduces the lawyers and employees of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, a Los Angeles law firm, in dealing with their courtroom cases and personal matters out of the courthouse. While the entire office deals with the unexpected death of one of the founding senior partners, Norman Chaney, junior partner Michael Kuzak reluctantly takes on the defense of a wealthy and spoiled young man, accused with two friends, of raping a woman dying from leukemia. While intern Abby Perkins deals with her abusive alcoholic husband, divorce lawyer Arnie Becker takes advantage of his latest client caught up in her divorce. Public defender Victor Sifuentes is also offered to join the firm, while the ruthless managing partner, Douglas Brackman, deals with a surprising revelation from his new secretary.
Harvey Koster
Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. It's up to detective Curt Maddox, to find out what really happened, and their Hawaiian lawyer to do the impossible. Convince a white court of law, that they are innocent.
Dr. Nielsen
O Bio Tek, um suposto centro de pesquisa agrícola, é na verdade um laboratório ultra-secreto para o desenvolvimento de armas biológicas. Quando acontece um sério acidente, que libera uma bactéria mortal, o sistema de segurança do complexo lacra o prédio com várias pessoas dentro. Lá acontece uma luta pela sobrevivência, pois todos os contaminados antes de morrerem se tornam loucos assassinos. Connolly (Yaphet Kotto), um agente do governo, tenta controlar a situação enquanto fala várias mentiras para esconder os fatos. Cal Morse (Sam Waterston), o xerife local, quer descobrir a verdade e, se possível, salvar Joanie Morse (Kathleen Quinlan), sua mulher, que trabalha como segurança no laboratório. Assim ele procura Dan Fairchild (Jeffrey DeMunn), um pesquisador que já trabalhou na Bio Tek, e juntos tentam entender por qual motivo Joanie não foi contaminada. Se conseguirem a resposta poderão fabricar uma antitoxina, caso contrário as conseqüências serão imprevisíveis.
Coy LaHood
Bandidos a serviço de um homem poderoso que quer controlar o ouro na cidade californiana de Lahood aterrorizam um acampamento de mineradores e matam o cãozinho de Maggie Wheeler. As preces da jovem por um milagre são logo atendidas quando um forasteiro misterioso aparece e salva o líder dos trabalhadores de um novo ataque. O justiceiro no cavalo branco, habilidoso com o revólver Remington 1858 e utilizando vestes religiosas, começa a ser chamado de Pregador.
Abe
Drama baseado na história verdadeira de Rocky Dennis, um adolescente que nasceu com uma estranha deformidade no rosto e todos acham que usa uma máscara. Cher, em seu papel principal no cinema, é Rusty, a mãe do rapaz. Com a ajuda do amor descompromissado e a inabalável determinção de Rusty, Rocky enfrenta a dor, a solidão e os preconceitos para emergir como um extraordinário jovem que se torna uma inspiração para seus colegas e professores.
Dr. Lee
A história verdadeira de um funcionário desiludido de um fornecedor militar e seu amigo de infância, traficante de drogas, que se tornam espiões da União Soviética.
Louis B. Mayer
Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson's power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumour industry. What they couldn't forsee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons -- and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood's hay-day.
Hunter Burgess
A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new home, but returns to find that they have been adopted out without her knowledge.
Dr. Copper
Na remota Antártida, um grupo de cientistas americanos é perturbado em sua base quando, de um helicóptero, alguém atira em um cão do acampamento. À medida que socorrem o cão baleado, o bicho começa a atacar os cientistas e os outros cachorros e logo eles descobrem que o animal pode assumir a forma de suas vítimas. Isto significa que membros da equipe podem ser mortos e a cópia assumir o lugar deles. Com isso, um piloto e um médico precisam capturar a fera antes que seja tarde demais.
Dr. Morton Freeman
A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically-explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned.
Judge Russell R. Leggett
This dramatic re-enactment premiered a mere nine weeks after the actual headline-making trial of the refined private school headmistress who was convicted of the murder of her unfaithful lover, Dr. Herman Tarnower, the famed "Scarsdale Diet" author.
Edwin Stanton
This is the story of the doctor whose farm John Wilkes Booth went to after assassinating Abraham Lincoln
Jack Warner
This TV movie focuses on the life of actor Humphrey Bogart.
Trevor Isley
Médico do governo, Dr. Robert Verne, e sua esposa grávida são enviados para Maine, para intermediar um conflito entre uma tribo de nativos americanos e uma exploradora de madeira. A empresa está sendo acusada de envenenar a água, causando a mutação dos animais selvagens locais. Dr. Robert captura um filhote de urso para fazer testes, e logo descobre que se tornou o alvo de um mutante furioso.
Dr. Robert Allenby
Jardineiro simplório chamado Chance cresce fechado na casa do patrão, e quando ele morre é posto na rua. Sem saber nada do mundo além do que via pela TV, ele acaba ficando amigo de homem influente, que confunde sua inocência com sabedoria.
Secretary of Defense
s EUA devem unir forças com a URSS para destruir um gigantesco asteroide em direção à Terra.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Dr. Brennerman
The story of television news correspondent Betty Rollin and her battle with breast cancer, and how her subsequent mastectomy changed her marriage, her philosophy and her entire life.
Aslaksen
A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann, however, makes the inconvenient discovery that the nature around the village is not so unspoiled. In fact, the runoff from the local tanning mill has contaminated the water to a dangerous degree. The town fathers argue that cleaning up the mess would be far too expensive and the publicity would destroy the town's reputation, so therefore news of the pollution should be suppressed. Dr. Stockmann decides to fight to get the word out to the people, but receives as very mixed reaction.
Peter Bailey
It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary Bailey Hatch is praying for guidance on what to do about an incident no fault of her own which threatens her name and the community standing of her longtime family business, the Bailey Building and Loan, which she took over after the passing of her father. What Mary does not know is that most in town, including her husband George Hatch and their children, are also praying for her. All the prayers are heard by Joseph, God's gatekeeper of prayers. As there are no other angels available on such a busy day, Joseph assigns Clara Oddbody, angel second class (i.e. she has yet to receive her wings), to Mary's case, which he reluctantly does as Clara has never been assigned a case on her own in the two hundred years she's been in heaven for good reason.
President Ulysses S. Grant
General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Leonard Driscoll
A government agent is caught in the explosion of a government underwater salvage operation. He finds himself capable of turning himself invisible, and sets out to use his new powers to prove that the explosion was sabotage.
Dimwitted, meaty guy foils criminals by turning invisible.
Lehman
Uma vidente americana afirma pouco antes do dirigível Hindenburg, um verdadeiro hotel no céu e um dos símbolos do poderio nazista, deixar a Alemanha, que ele será destruído em sua viagem até Nova York e que o desastre acontecerá quando ele estiver chegando nos Estados Unidos. Apesar de nada suspeito ter sido encontrado, na Alemanha e nos Estados Unidos circulam rumores sobre a possível destruição do dirigível. Assim o coronel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott), um herói de guerra que opera para a inteligência militar, é designado para voar no Hindenburg como chefe da segurança. Nesta missão ele é ajudado pelo agente da Gestapo Martin Vogel (Roy Thinnes), que nem de longe tem a educação e a discrição de Ritter, que gradativamente cria sua lista de suspeitos. Vai ficando cada vez mais certo que os rumores de sabotagem têm muito fundamento, mas Ritter não está preocupado em proteger um símbolo do poderio nazista e sim evitar que dezenas de pessoas morram num atentado.
Claude Estee
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
Father
After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatrically impaired." Taking the news with an air of initially lighthearted defiance, Vrooder escapes and sets up camp under a highway, where he builds a paranoia-driven booby-trapped bunker for himself. Falling in love with not-so-bright nurse Zanni, Vrooder soon plans to elope with her to a remote Canadian outpost.
Dr. John Ellis
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.
Master Bryant
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
Dr. Welbeck
O chefe da equipe de um hospital luta para encontrar um significado para sua vida durante uma enxurrada de mortes de funcionários.
Spengler
The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.
Barnes
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
Workers in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fails during the East Coast blackout of 1965.
Motel Receptionist
An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.
Accountant (uncredited)
Angie Rossini é uma jovem e inocente (Católica Italiana) vendedora da Macy, que descobre que está grávida de Rocky, um músico. Angie encontra Rocky (que em um primeiro momento não se lembra dela) para dizer-lhe que está grávida e precisa de um médico para fazer um aborto. Ele acha um médico e eles trabalham juntos para levantar o dinheiro. Será que esses dois estranhos encontrarão o amor um no outro antes que seja tarde demais?
