Conrad Bain dies at 89

Conrad Bain, 70s and IV block in the 80s star sitcom, died Wednesday, she confirmed. He was just three weeks short of a 90th Laos. Bain parts breakout Laos, neighbors Maude old Maude, before professional as doctors and lawyers have worked long the playing characteristics. After showing the Lao Sin on it, Bain sitcom own blood vessel obstruction in, they, landed, where widower Park Avenue, a sight rarely on television Harlem-1970 adopted two boys young black played.

His daughter, Jennifer Bain, confirmed the death on Wednesday.

Mr. Bain has become familiar to television viewers as Dr. Arthur Harmon, neighbors title character Bea Arthur in "Maude" when he joined the cast of "Diff'rent Strokes" in 1978, beginning a period of eight seasons. He played Phillip Drummond, rich Manhattan widower who has promised his family died, the black and living in Harlem, that he would back her children, Arnold (Gary Coleman) and Willis (Todd Bridges).

Drummond has a biological daughter, Kimberly, played by Dana Plato and plotlines show interwove punch with a larger lesson about the experience of mixed-race family.

Mr. Bain Drummond is tough but stable and warm when it is necessary, meaning that adoption and foster rather poor, older children diagnosed on the strength of his character black.


"You know, a lot of people are inclined to take just talking," he said at the beginning of chapters Kimberly Drummond, after she refused to marry, who told him that he does not like to be with black people, "but very few people have ever really."

Drummond is the easy moralizing, and his gentle language - using "biased" and not "racist" - is the central exhibition, which was hit by a black and white viewers. Show criticized but also simple and irreverent.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who wrote in The New York Times in 1989, three years after the final show season, said: "Diff'rent Strokes", after the tradition of "domestication" and "cultural dwarfism," black men in mainstream entertainment, "where a small black" boys " (young people were arrested, who were much older than the characters they play) has adopted a long, successful white men, "which" represents the myth of benevolent paternalism in the white upper class. "