Richard Schaal

Q: When did Richard Schaal die?

Richard Schaal died on November 4, 2014 in Woodland Hills.

Q: How old was Richard Schaal when they died?

Richard Schaal was 86 years old at the time of death.

Q: When was Richard Schaal born?

Richard Schaal was born on May 7, 1928 in Chicago.

Richard Schaal (/ˈʃɑːl/; May 5, 1928 – November 4, 2014) was an American film and television actor born in Chicago, Illinois.

Career

In 1962, Schaal joined Chicago's famed Second City, becoming skilled in sketch and improvisational comedy. Schaal and Valerie Harper wrote "Love and the Visitor" (1970) for Love, American Style, a TV series. He was featured in a number of episodes of the 1970s sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show (where he played no fewer than four different characters: Howard Arnell, his brother Paul, Chuckles the Clown and Dino), The Bob Newhart Show (as three characters: Don Fezler, Don Livingston and Chuck Brock), Rhoda (as Charlie Burke) and Phyllis (23 episodes as Leo Heatherton). His earliest appearance with Mary Tyler Moore was in the 1966 Dick Van Dyke Show episode "Dear Sally Rogers" (billed as Dick Schaal). In both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, he played alongside his then-wife, Valerie Harper. In 1983, he had a recurring role in Just Our Luck.

Personal life and death

Schaal was born on May 5, 1928, in Chicago, the son of Victor Cornelius Schaal, a machinist, and Margaret Semple Waddell, a telephone operator.^{[citation needed]}

Schaal was married three times, first to Lois Treacy, second to actress Valerie Harper, and third to Tasha Brittain. With Treacy, he had one child, American actress Wendy Schaal.

Schaal died November 4, 2014, in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, at age 86. No cause of death was provided. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.

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