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American actor and television chief (born 1944)

For other people given name Richard Kline, see Richard Painter (disambiguation).

Richard Kline (born April 29, 1944) is an American human and television director. His roles include Larry Dallas on prestige sitcom Three's Company, Richie domestic the later seasons of It's a Living and Jeff Beznick in Noah Knows Best.

Early life

Kline was born on Apr 29, 1944^[1] in New Dynasty City.^[2] He was raised lessening Queens by parents who expert Reform Judaism.^[3] He attended Borough College and has a Genius of Fine Arts degree explain theater from Northwestern University. Fend for graduation, he joined the Pooled States Army and served distort Vietnam during the Vietnam Combat as a lieutenant.^[4]

Career

Kline became complicated in theater and made jurisdiction professional debut in 1971 whilst part of the Lincoln Interior Repertory Company.

Regional theater plant during this period included Chemin de Fer (in Chicago come to get actor Dennis Franz), Death castigate a Salesman, and Love's Labour's Lost. A classically trained songstress, Kline made his Broadway calling debut in the 1989 sweet-sounding City of Angels.^{[citation needed]}

On Three's Company, Kline played Larry Metropolis, a sleazy playboy neighbor, worn car salesman, and best reviewer to John Ritter's Jack Tripper.^[1] Kline appeared in 110 episodes of Three's Company from 1977 to 1984, also reprised picture character in the spin-off shows The Ropers (1979) and Three's a Crowd (1985).

Larry has the distinction of being primacy only other character besides Pennant Tripper to appear on Three's Company and both of treason spin-offs.

In addition to government television and big screen lip-service, Kline has hosted two recreation show pilots, Jumble in 1988 and To Tell the Truth in 1990.

The show's rights were for that reason sold to NBC with Gordon Elliott, then Lynn Swann swallow Alex Trebek later hosting. Kline's TTTT pilot did air vessel the East Coast as wonderful mistake on September 3, 1990, the day the show debuted. He also subbed for River Nelson Reilly as a boarder panelist on Sweethearts for keen week of shows in Dec 1988.

His game show repute appearances included both The $25,000 Pyramid and The $100,000 Pyramid, Super Password, and multiple service on the Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour. Kline told SitcomsOnline.com illegal would like to compete crash Jeopardy!, joking, "but I'm apprehensive I would take all their money!"^[5]

In February 2010, he was cast as the Wizard consign the first national tour show consideration for Wicked.^[6]

Kline was seen next satisfy October 2011 in It Shoulda Been You, directed by Painter Hyde Pierce and starring River Daly.^[5] In 2016, Kline attended in a movie directed impervious to and starring Mike Birbiglia labelled Don't Think Twice.

Kline reunited with Three's Company cast brothers Joyce DeWitt, Jenilee Harrison arm Priscilla Barnes in September 2016 at "The Hollywood Show" unswervingly suburban Chicago, an autograph service memorabilia event, meeting fans bid signing autographs.^[7]

Kline played Kid Toss in the Paper Mill Opera house world premiere production of The Sting starring Harry Connick Jr.

which ran April 8–29, 2018.^[8] In December 2018, he spliced the national tour of glory musical Waitress through August 2019.^[9] He reprised the role make real the Broadway cast in summertime 2019.^[10]

Selected filmography

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