and Day One (with L.A. Law co-star Michael Tucker). He appeared in an episode of the 1976 CBS television series Sara. Honors and awards Dysart received a Drama Desk Award in 1972 for his role as Coach in That Championship Season. Dysard was nominated four years in a row for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series between 1989 to 1992, for his role as Leland McKenzie on L.A. Law, winning just the once in 1992. Personal life and death Dysart was married three times. The first two marriages resulted in divorce. He and his third wife, artist Kathryn Jacobi, were married from 1987 until his death. He had no children of his own, but had a stepson from his third wife and two step-grandchildren. Dysart died at home in Santa Monica, California on April 5, 2015, after a long battle with cancer. He was 86 years old. Selected filmography Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) – Accountant (uncredited) Petulia (1968) – Motel Receptionist The Lost Man (1969) – Barnes The Sporting Club (1971) – Spengler The Hospital (1971) – Dr. Welbeck All In The Family (1972) – Russ DeKuyper The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974, TV Movie) – Master Bryant The Terminal Man (1974) – Dr. John Ellis The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974) – Father The Day of the Locust (1975) – Claude Estee The Hindenburg (1975) – Captain Ernst Lehman It Happened One Christmas (1977, TV Movie) – Peter Bailey An Enemy of the People (1978) – Aslaksen Prophecy (1979) – Isely Meteor (1979) – Secretary of Defense Being There (1979) – Dr. Robert Allenby Bitter Harvest (1981) – Dr. Morton Freeman The Thing (1982) – Dr. Copper The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) – Dr. Lee Mask (1985) – Abe Malice in Wonderland (1985, TV Movie) – Louis B. Mayer Pale Rider (1985) – Coy LaHood Warning Sign (1985) – Dr. Nielsen Blood & Orchids (1986, TV Movie) – Harvey Koster Castle in the Sky (1986) – Uncle Pom (English version, voice) The Last Days of Patton (1986, TV Movie) – Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Wall Street (1987) – Cromwell Day One (1989, TV Movie) – President Harry S. Truman War and Remembrance (1989, TV Movie) – President Harry S Truman Back to the Future Part III (1990) – Barbwire salesman Panther (1995) – J. Edgar Hoover Truman (1995, TV