Faapuupuu le mataupu:  (CNN) Ua maliu Richard Dysart, o le tagata fai ata tifaga ua manumalo i le tele o faailoga, o lē na lauiloa i le avea o ia ma taʻitaʻi o se ofisa loia o Leland McKenzie i le "L.A. Law". E 86 ona tausaga. Na maliu o ia i le kanesa i lona fale i Santa Monica, Kalefonia, e tusa ai ma lana avā, o Kathryn Jacobi Dysart. Mo le tele o tausaga, o Dysart o se tagata lauiloa i le televise ma ata tifaga, ma le fetu o le tulaga, manumalo i le Drama Desk award mo le taina o le faiaoga i le Jason Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "That Championship Season". Ae e sili ona manatua pea o ia i le avea ai ma McKenzie, o le tamā o aiga e iai taimi e lē fiafia ai i le "L.A. Law". ʻL.A. Law': Feusuaʻiga, Solitulafono ma le ʻVenus Butterfly' E masani lava ona tuu McKenzie i tua o isi tagata talavou, e sili atu ona matagofie i le "Law", o se polokalame faaletulafono na faia e Steven Bochco, lea e tele sona aafiaga i lana uluaʻi ata, ʻHill Street Blues.' O tagata faigaluega a McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney ma Kuzak e aofia ai le failauga lelei o Harry Hamlin o Michael Kuzak, o le loia o le teteʻa o Corbin Bernsen o Arnie Becker ma le tagata faʻataʻitaʻi o Michele Greene o Abby Perkins. E tele lava taimi na faaaluina i gaoioiga i potu moe e pei ona iai mataupu faaletulafono a o talanoaina ma le lototele e le polokalame mataupu e pei o le AIDS, o faiga faatalitane i tamaiti ma le faasalaga oti. Ae o McKenzie o lē na puleaina i latou, a o ia faalaeiauina pea o latou faanaunauga lelei. (O Douglas Brackman o Alan Rachins, o le tagata fai pisinisi.) Na aafia foʻi o ia i se tasi o suiga mataʻina o le tala: o se faiā māfana ma Rosalind Shays (Diana Muldaur), o lē na feiloaʻi ma se tasi o maliu e sili ona mataʻutia i le televise - na paʻū i lalo i se lifi. Dysart na aliali mai i vaega uma o le ata, lea na tamoʻe mai le 1986 i le 1994. Ina ua maeʻa le "L.A. Law", na faia e Dysart ni nai matafaioi, e ui lava na toe foʻi mai o ia mo se ata tifaga "L.A. Law" i le 2002. O isi galuega a Dysart e aofia ai le 1971's "The Hospital", 1975's "The Day of the Locust", 1979's "Being There", John Carpenter's 1982 version of "The Thing", 1985's "The Falcon and the Snowman" ma le 1987's "Mask". Ua tuua e ia Jacobi Dysart, lana avā mo le toeitiiti atoa le tolu sefulu tausaga, o se atalii ma ni fanau se toʻalua. O Rachel mai le CNN...
Na maliu o ia i le kanesa i lona fale i Santa Monica, Kalefonia. E masani lava ona nofo i le nofoa pito i tua o tagata talavou, e sili atu ona matagofie i le ata.