article_snippet.sent: (The Hollywood Reporter)Richard Dysart, the Emmy-winning actor who portrayed the cranky senior partner Leland McKenzie in the slick, long-running NBC drama "L.A. Law," has died.
article_snippet.sent: Dysart, who also played Coach in the original 1972 Broadway production of Jason Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning "That Championship Season," died Sunday at home in Santa Monica after a long illness, the cranky senior partner Leland McKenzie wife, artist Kathryn Jacobi, told The Hollywood Reporter.
article_snippet.sent: For playing the founder of the firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, Dysart was nominated for the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series for four straight years, finally winning the trophy in 1992.
article_snippet.sent: he received a Drama Desk Award for he performance in "That Championship Season.
highlights_snippet.sent: Richard Dysart best known for Leland McKenzie in
highlights_snippet.sent: "L.A. Law"
  Dysart had many TV and film roles, including spots in "Being There" and "The Thing"
  Actor won Drama Desk award for performance in theatrical "That Championship Season" 