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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.
-from wikipedia
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.
-from wikipedia
Dick Clair 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 | The Bob Newhart Show (TV Series) |
| 1971 | The Funny Side of... (TV Series) · as Wealthy Husband |
| 1970 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV Series) |
| 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 | The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (TV Series) |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Soldier |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show (TV Series) · as French Foreign Observer |
| 1987 | |
| 1983 | Mama's Family (TV Series) |
| 1982 | |
| 1980 | Flo (TV Series) |
| 1979 | Carol Burnett & Company (TV Series) |
| 1978 | |
| 1977 | Soap (TV Series) |
| 1972 | The Bob Newhart Show (TV Series) |
| 1972 | Maude (TV Series) |
| 1970 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV Series) |
| 1967 | The Carol Burnett Show (TV Series) |
| 1987 | |
| 1983 | Mama's Family (TV Series) |
| 1979 | A New Kind of Family (TV Series) |
| 1977 | Soap (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Unkissed Bride · as Associate Producer |
| 1974 | Dinah! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1973 | Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1967 | Kraft Music Hall (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1965 | The Dean Martin Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | The Facts of Life Reunion · as Creator |
| 1997 | The Wonderful World of Disney (TV Series) · as Creator |
| 1994 | De Sylvia Millecam Show (TV Series) · as Original Script |
| 1982 | The Facts of Life Goes to Paris · as Created By |
| 1980 | It's a Living (TV Series) · as Created By |
| 1979 | The Facts of Life (TV Series) · as Created By |
| 1978 | Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series) · as Story By |
| 1972 | Beware! The Blob · as Story |
| 1971 | The New Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series) · as Written By |