article_snippet.sent: Dysart was born March 30, 1929, in Boston and raised in Maine.
article_snippet.sent: Following high school, he attended the Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine, for a year, served in the U.S. Air Force and attended Emerson College, where he graduated with a master's degree in speech communications.
article_snippet.sent: At the time, he was interested in a career in radio (he became fascinated with the medium in first grade, when he was bedridden for a year because of rheumatic fever) but was soon tempted by acting.
article_snippet.sent: he moved to New York on a whim and was able to land minor roles on TV and a part in an off-Broadway production of "The Iceman Cometh" opposite Jason Robards.
article_snippet.sent: In the mid-1960s, he joined the American Conservatory Theater and toured the country doing plays, then landed roles on Broadway in "All in Good Time," "The Little Foxes" and "A Place Without Doors.
article_snippet.sent: Dysart and Jacobi had a second home in the forests of British Columbia.