Richard Kline grew up in 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.

Last Fall he co-starred on NBC’s Inside Schwartz playing the father of Breckin Meyer. His most recent Los Angeles stage appearance was as Capt. E.J. Smith in the South Bay Civic Light Opera’s 10th anniversary production of Titanic. He has performed the solo show Boychik written by Richard Krevolin at New York’s Theatre Four and at many venues in Los Angeles.

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. Among his many television credits are Gilmore Girls, Judging Amy, That 70’s Show, NYPD Blue, Dream On, LA Law.

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. His daughter, Colby is attending Northwestern University as a sophmore.
Richard has relocated to the East Coast, as of September 2005.

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