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Dick Clair

Actor, Writer, Producer, Additional Credits
Born November 12, 1931Died December 12, 1988 (57 years)
Dick Clair was born Richard Jones in San Francisco, California. He served in the military for two years from 1955 to 1957. He never married or had children. In the early 1970s, Clair performed husband-and-wife comedy routines for The Ed Sullivan Show and The Dean Martin Show with his writing partner Jenna McMahon. Clair was a screenwriter for episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show in addition to his Emmy Award winning writing for the comedy-variety TV program The Carol Burnett Show. With Jenna McMahon he wrote and produced the television sitcoms It's a Living, The Facts of Life, and Mama's Family.

Clair was active as an early member of the Cryonics Society of California in the 1960s. In 1982 he contributed $20,000 to the cryonics organization Trans Time so that a husband and wife could remain cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen. He was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986. When he was hospitalized in 1988 he faced opposition from the hospital and the State of California concerning his desire for cryonics treatment. The ensuing court battle (Roe v. Mitchell, with Clair as "John Roe") ended victoriously, establishing the legal right of persons to be cryonically preserved in the state of California.

Clair died on December 12, 1988, of multiple AIDS-related infections at the age of 57. He was cryopreserved at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Carol Burnett Show
  • Beware! The Blob
  • The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Known For

  • The Facts of Life
  • Soap
  • The Carol Burnett Show
  • Mama's Family
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  • It's a Living
  • Beware! The Blob
  • The Facts of Life Reunion
  • The Wonderful World of Disney
  • The Bob Newhart Show
  • Flo
  • Maude

Filmography

1983
Mama's Family (TV Series) · as Carl Harper
1982
Newhart (TV Series) · as Guest
1982
Eunice · as Carl
1979
240-Robert (TV Series)
1975
Karen (1975) (TV Series) · as Lieutenant Griffin
1972
1971
The Funny Side of... (TV Series) · as Wealthy Husband
1970
1969
Love, American Style (TV Series) · as Harvey (segment "love And The Little Black Book")
1967
The Carol Burnett Show (TV Series) · as Carl Harper
1966
Psychedelic Sexualis · as Detective
1965
My Mother the Car (TV Series)
1965
Run for Your Life (TV Series) · as Fred
1963
The New Phil Silvers Show (TV Series) · as Pete
1960
My Three Sons (TV Series) · as Ken Everetts
1959
1956
Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Soldier
1951
The Red Skelton Show (TV Series) · as French Foreign Observer

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