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Conrad Bain

The Anderson Tapes

Child Bride of Short Creek

C.H.O.M.P.S.

Coogan's Bluff

Up the Sandbox

Postcards from the Edge

Bananas

Bananas

AKA: Conrad Stafford Bain

Born: 02/04/1923 Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

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Biography: Wryly humorous Canadian character actor Conrad Bain was all wrapped up in such athletic pursuits as hockey and speed skating when, in his junior year of high school, he suddenly became fascinated with acting. He studied at Alberta's Banff School of Fine Arts, served in the Canadian army during World War II, then resumed his training at New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He worked at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival and in live television before scoring his first real success in the 1956 Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. In the early 1970s, Bain began popping up in such New York-based films as Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) and Woody Allen's Bananas (1973). He gained national fame in the TV role of stuffy next-door neighbor Dr. Arthur Harmon on the Norman Lear sitcom Maude (1974-78). Bain was later awarded top billing as wealthy Phillip Drummond, foster father to Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges, on Diff'rent Strokes. His most recent regular-series assignment was as presidential aide Charley Ross on the George C. Scott TV vehicle Mr. President (1987). Though not a professional actor, Conrad Bain's identical twin brother Bonar Bain has occasionally guested on Conrad's various TV series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

DVDs that Conrad Bain appeared in...

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09/23/2008 - The Anderson Tapes
09/18/2007 - Child Bride of Short Creek
04/12/2005 - C.H.O.M.P.S.
06/01/2004 - Coogan's Bluff
08/19/2003 - Star!
07/01/2003 - Up the Sandbox
05/01/2001 - Postcards from the Edge
07/05/2000 - Bananas
07/05/2000 - Bananas