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Conrad-Bain - Usually sized up as an erudite gent, advice-spouting father or uptight, pompous neighbor, the acting talents of Conrad Bain were best utilized on stage and on TV. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, on February 4, 1923, Conrad Stafford Bain was a twin son (the other was named Bonar) born to Stafford Harrison Bain, a wholesaler, and Jean Agnes (née Young). He enjoyed Canadian sports growing up (ice hockey, speed skating), but picked up an interest in acting while in high school.Electing to train at Albertas Banff School of Fine Arts after graduating, he met Monica Marjorie Sloan, an artist, while there. His acting pursuit was interrupted by WWII when he subsequently joined the Canadian army. Picking up here he left off following his discharge, he studied at New Yorks American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He also married Ms. Sloan in 1945 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen the following year. The couple went on to have three children -- Jennifer, Mark and Kent.Making his stage debut in a Connecticut production of Dear Ruth in 1947, Bain also appeared in Jack and the Beanstalk and a tour of The Barretts of Wimpole Street before making his off-Broadway debut in a 1956 Circle-in-the-Square revival of Eugene ONeills The Iceman Cometh, a production that made a star out of Jason Robards. Following an inauspicious Broadway bow in Sixth Finger in a Five Finger Glove, which closed after only one day, he joined the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival for their 1958 season, appearing in A Winters Tale, Much Ado About Nothing and Henry IV, Part I.Fair in complexion and exceedingly genial in demeanor, the wry and witty blond actor graduated into other Broadway work, particularly drama, with strong roles in Candide, Advise and Consent, An Enemy of the People, Twigs and Uncle Vanya. He also built up his regional and repertory credits during the early 1960s with parts in King Lear, The Firebugs, Death of a Salesman and The Shadow of Heroes at Seattle Rep. Later in the decade he began to focus more intently on TV, usually playing cerebral, white-collar types (district attorneys, stock brokers, doctors, politicos).Bain eventually found an in with daytime drama, which included a recurring role on Dark Shadows (1966) (as an innkeeper), and a part on The Edge of Night (1956) in 1970. He broke completely away, however, from his trademark dramatics when the 49-year-old actor was discovered for prime-time TV by Norman Lear and offered a supporting role opposite Bea Arthur and Bill Macy in Norman Lears landmark, liberally-sliced comedy series Maude (1972), a spin-off of Lears equally landmark All in the Family (1971) sitcom. Conrad was cast as Rue McClanahans stuffy, conservative doctor/husband, Arthur Harmon, who usually was at political odds with free-wheeling feminist Maude Finlay.The role moved Bain into the prime TV comedy character ranks. Following the shows lengthy run (1972-1978), he was given the green light by Lear to move into his own comedy series with Diffrent Strokes (1978) as the wealthy father of a girl and adoptive father of two African-American children. While young Gary Coleman, the compact, precocious, mouthy dynamo, may have stolen the show, the good-humored Bain remained a strong center and voice of reason until the shows demise in 1986. Three was not a charm when Bain went into a third new comedy series, Mr. President (1987), with Conrad as a loyal aide-de-camp to President George C. Scott. The show, created not by Lear but by Johnny Carson, lasted only 24 episodes.During and after his lengthy 70s and 80s TV success, Conrad would continue to return to his first love, the stage, in such productions as Uncle Vanya, The Owl and the Pussycat, On Golden Pond, The Dining Room and On Borrowed Time, the last being a 1992 return to Broadway after nearly two decades. Films, on the other hand, were a non-issue at this point. Earlier minor turns included Clint Eastwoods Blef Coogana (1968), Gene Hackmans Nigdy nie spiewalem dla mojego ojca (1970), Woody Allens Bananowy czubek (1971), Sean Connerys Tasmy prawdy (1971) and Barbra Streisands Jak sie zabawic? (1972). His last stop in films was an engaging part as a befuddled grandpa opposite the perennially crusty Mary Wickes in Pocztówki znad krawedzi (1990) starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. One of Bains last on-camera appearances was recreating his Phillip Drummond role from Diffrent Strokes (1978) on a 1996 episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.Other than a stage role in Ancestral Voices in 2000, Conrad turned for a time to screen-writing but later comfortably retired to the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Moving to a Livermore California retirement home in 2008, wife Monica died a year later. Bain passed away there quietly of natural causes on January 14, 2013, less than a month short of his 90th birthday. His twin brother Bonar died in 2005.. Date of Birth, 4February 1923,Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada ,Date of Death, 14January 2013,Livermore, California, USA ,Birth Name,Conrad Stafford Bain,Height, 510(1.78m)

Usually sized up as an erudite gent, advice-spouting father or uptight, pompous neighbor, the acting talents of Conrad Bain were best utilized on stage and on TV. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, on February 4, 1923, Conrad Stafford Bain was a twin son (the other was named Bonar) born to Stafford Harrison Bain, a wholesaler, and Jean Agnes (née Young). He enjoyed Canadian sports growing up (ice hockey, speed skating), but picked up an interest in acting while in high school.Electing to train at Albertas Banff School of Fine Arts after graduating, he met Monica Marjorie Sloan, an artist, while there. His acting pursuit was interrupted by WWII when he subsequently joined the Canadian army. Picking up here he left off following his discharge, he studied at New Yorks American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He also married Ms. Sloan in 1945 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen the following year. The couple went on to have three children -- Jennifer, Mark and Kent.Making his stage debut in a Connecticut production of Dear Ruth in 1947, Bain also appeared in Jack and the Beanstalk and a tour of The Barretts of Wimpole Street before making his off-Broadway debut in a 1956 Circle-in-the-Square revival of Eugene ONeills The Iceman Cometh, a production that made a star out of Jason Robards. Following an inauspicious Broadway bow in Sixth Finger in a Five Finger Glove, which closed after only one day, he joined the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival for their 1958 season, appearing in A Winters Tale, Much Ado About Nothing and Henry IV, Part I.Fair in complexion and exceedingly genial in demeanor, the wry and witty blond actor graduated into other Broadway work, particularly drama, with strong roles in Candide, Advise and Consent, An Enemy of the People, Twigs and Uncle Vanya. He also built up his regional and repertory credits during the early 1960s with parts in King Lear, The Firebugs, Death of a Salesman and The Shadow of Heroes at Seattle Rep. Later in the decade he began to focus more intently on TV, usually playing cerebral, white-collar types (district attorneys, stock brokers, doctors, politicos).Bain eventually found an in with daytime drama, which included a recurring role on Dark Shadows (1966) (as an innkeeper), and a part on The Edge of Night (1956) in 1970. He broke completely away, however, from his trademark dramatics when the 49-year-old actor was discovered for prime-time TV by Norman Lear and offered a supporting role opposite Bea Arthur and Bill Macy in Norman Lears landmark, liberally-sliced comedy series Maude (1972), a spin-off of Lears equally landmark All in the Family (1971) sitcom. Conrad was cast as Rue McClanahans stuffy, conservative doctor/husband, Arthur Harmon, who usually was at political odds with free-wheeling feminist Maude Finlay.The role moved Bain into the prime TV comedy character ranks. Following the shows lengthy run (1972-1978), he was given the green light by Lear to move into his own comedy series with Diffrent Strokes (1978) as the wealthy father of a girl and adoptive father of two African-American children. While young Gary Coleman, the compact, precocious, mouthy dynamo, may have stolen the show, the good-humored Bain remained a strong center and voice of reason until the shows demise in 1986. Three was not a charm when Bain went into a third new comedy series, Mr. President (1987), with Conrad as a loyal aide-de-camp to President George C. Scott. The show, created not by Lear but by Johnny Carson, lasted only 24 episodes.During and after his lengthy 70s and 80s TV success, Conrad would continue to return to his first love, the stage, in such productions as Uncle Vanya, The Owl and the Pussycat, On Golden Pond, The Dining Room and On Borrowed Time, the last being a 1992 return to Broadway after nearly two decades. Films, on the other hand, were a non-issue at this point. Earlier minor turns included Clint Eastwoods Blef Coogana (1968), Gene Hackmans Nigdy nie spiewalem dla mojego ojca (1970), Woody Allens Bananowy czubek (1971), Sean Connerys Tasmy prawdy (1971) and Barbra Streisands Jak sie zabawic? (1972). His last stop in films was an engaging part as a befuddled grandpa opposite the perennially crusty Mary Wickes in Pocztówki znad krawedzi (1990) starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. One of Bains last on-camera appearances was recreating his Phillip Drummond role from Diffrent Strokes (1978) on a 1996 episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.Other than a stage role in Ancestral Voices in 2000, Conrad turned for a time to screen-writing but later comfortably retired to the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Moving to a Livermore California retirement home in 2008, wife Monica died a year later. Bain passed away there quietly of natural causes on January 14, 2013, less than a month short of his 90th birthday. His twin brother Bonar died in 2005.. Date of Birth, 4February 1923,Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada ,Date of Death, 14January 2013,Livermore, California, USA ,Birth Name,Conrad Stafford Bain,Height, 510(1.78m) .

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