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Richard Kline

Teaches at Actors Technique NY Kids & Teens

Richard Kline is an icon comedy actor and known director. He shot to fame in the iconic 70's series "Three's Company" with John Ritter. Aside from Three's Company (1976), Richard has appeared in numerous other television, film and stage prods, including Adam Sandler's "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry" (2007), Beverly Hills Ninja (1997), The Wizard in the Regional Tour of Broadway's "Wicked," Mary Tyler Moore Show, Maude, St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues and much more. 

Richard grew up New York City, attended Queens College and has a Masters in Theatre from Northwestern University. He is known to millions of TV watchers as ‘Larry’ on the classic sitcom Three’s Company, now enjoying cult status on Nick-At-Nite. For the same Nickelodeon network he played Noah’s dad on the series Noah Knows Best. He co-starred on NBC’s Inside Schwartz playing the father of Breckin Meyer. He appeared as Capt. E.J. Smith in the South Bay Civic Light Opera’s 10th anniversary production of Titanic. His most recent Los Angeles stage appearance was opposite Annie Potts (Designing Women) in DIVA at the Pasadena Playhouse. He has performed the solo show Boychik written by Richard Krevolin at New York’s Theatre Four and at many venues in Los Angeles. (For more information on Richard’s credits, click here.).

After serving as a lieutenant in Vietnam, Richard made his professional debut at the prestigious Lincoln Center Repertory Company in 1971. Regional theatre credits include Cincinnati’s -- Death of A Salesman, Chicago-- Chemin de Fer with Dennis Franz, Washington D.C.’s Folger Shakespeare Theatre in the title role of Henry V and Berowne in Love’s Labor’s Lost. An accomplished singer as well, Richard has appeared in the musical They’re Playing Our Song, Do I Hear A Waltz?, The Rothschilds, and Hello Again. His Broadway debut came in 1990 in the musical City of Angels, his film debut in Barry Levinson’s Liberty Heights and his TV debut on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. In the American premiere of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s By Jeeves, he played Jeeves both at the Godspeed Opera and The Kennedy Center. He has an apparent affinity for the works of Neil Simon having done 6 of his plays, including a National Tour of Canada in Jake’s Women. 

As a director, Richard won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for his direction of Noel Coward’s Present Laughter. He has directed Bruce Davison, Burt Reynolds and Billy Connolly in their television series as well as directing NBC weatherman Fritz Coleman in his one-man show It’s Me! Dad! both for the stage and television. Other directing credits include Rumors(with Bernie Koppel), Rough Crossing, The Great Sebastians, Breaking Legs(with Pat Harrington), and the Theatre League tour of Leader of the Pack. In April 2006, he directed the solo show, Computer Geek at Chicago’s Improv Olympic.

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