Richard "Dick" Schaal, a pioneer at the Second City comedy theater in Chicago, the former husband of the actress Valerie Harper and a familiar face from a plethora of character roles on movies and television, including "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Rhoda," died Tuesday. He was 86.
On film, he appeared (among others) in "Slaughterhouse-Five: and, in 1966, "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" and "Once Bitten."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...05-column.html