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Richard "Dick" Gautier (born October 30, 1931, in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

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, California
California

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) is an actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, comedian
Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laughter. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy....
, composer
Composer

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, singer and author
Author

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. Among his most well-known television roles are for Hymie the Robot in the television series Get Smart
Get Smart

Get Smart is an United States comedy television series that Satire the Spy fiction genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 of CONTROL, a secret U.S....
, and Robin Hood
Robin Hood

Robin Hood is an archetype figure in English folklore, whose story originates from Middle Ages times but who remains significant in popular culture where he is known for robbing the rich to give to the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny....
 in the short-lived TV comedy series When Things Were Rotten
When Things Were Rotten

When Things Were Rotten was an United States situation comedy television series created in 1975 by Mel Brooks and aired for half a season by American Broadcasting Company....
, a Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks is an United States film director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and Film producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parody....
 send-up of the classic legend.

ier started his career as a night-club comic and a singer for dance orchestras; he joined ASCAP in 1959 after serving in the United States Navy
United States Navy

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Richard "Dick" Gautier (born October 30, 1931, in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
) is an actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, comedian
Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laughter. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy....
, composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
, singer and author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
. Among his most well-known television roles are for Hymie the Robot in the television series Get Smart
Get Smart

Get Smart is an United States comedy television series that Satire the Spy fiction genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 of CONTROL, a secret U.S....
, and Robin Hood
Robin Hood

Robin Hood is an archetype figure in English folklore, whose story originates from Middle Ages times but who remains significant in popular culture where he is known for robbing the rich to give to the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny....
 in the short-lived TV comedy series When Things Were Rotten
When Things Were Rotten

When Things Were Rotten was an United States situation comedy television series created in 1975 by Mel Brooks and aired for half a season by American Broadcasting Company....
, a Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks is an United States film director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and Film producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parody....
 send-up of the classic legend.

Career


Early career

Gautier started his career as a night-club comic and a singer for dance orchestras; he joined ASCAP in 1959 after serving in the United States Navy
United States Navy

The United States Navy is the navy of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy currently has approximately 331,682 personnel on active duty as of 31 December 2008 and 124,000 in the United States Navy Reserve....
. In 1960, he portrayed fictional rock 'n roll star Conrad Birdie in the original Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 production of Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical theater with a book by Michael Stewart , lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.Originally titled Let's Go Steady, the satire on United States society is set in 1958....
, receiving a Tony Award
Tony Award

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 nomination for his performance. Gautier has three children. He is divorced from actress Barbara Stuart
Barbara Stuart

Barbara Stuart is an United States actress....
, an Illinois
Illinois

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 native.

As a game show panelist

During the '70s and '80s, Gautier was well-known as a frequent game show
Game show

A game show is a type of television program in which members of the public or celebrity, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving problems for money and/or prizes....
 panelist, appearing on Match Game
Match Game

Match Game was an United States television game show featuring contestants attempting to match celebrities' answers to fill-in-the-blank questions....
, Tattletales
Tattletales

Tattletales was a game show which first aired on the CBS daytime schedule on February 18, 1974. It was hosted by Bert Convy, with several announcers Jack Clark , Gene Wood , Johnny Olson and John Harlan providing the voiceover at various times....
, Showoffs
Showoffs

Showoffs was a Mark Goodson game show that aired on the American Broadcasting Company television network from June 30 to December 26, 1975. Bobby Van as the host and Gene Wood was the announcer....
, You Don't Say!
You Don't Say!

You Don't Say! was an American television game show that had three separate runs on television. The first version aired on NBC daytime from April 1, 1963 to September 26, 1969 ....
, Liar's Club
Liar's Club

Liar's Club was an American comedy game show, produced by Ralph Andrews. It was first seen in 1969 with Rod Serling as host, and returned for a three-season syndicated run from 1976 to 1979....
, Password Plus, Body Language
Body language

Body language is a term for communication using body movements or gestures instead of, or in addition to, sounds, verbal language or other communication....
, Super Password, Win, Lose or Draw
Win, Lose or Draw

Win, Lose or Draw was an United States television game show that aired from 1987 to 1990 on syndication and NBC. It was taped at CBS Television City, often in Studio 33, and occasionally in Studio 31....
, and the TV version of Can You Top This?
Can You Top This?

Can You Top This? was a popular radio panel show in which comedians told jokes. The unrehearsed program, sponsored at one point by Colgate-Palmolive, was created by veteran vaudeville "Senator" Edward Ford, who claimed he was taking part in a joke session at a New York theatrical club when he conceived the idea....
. He also briefly tried his hand at emceeing on the early 1970s celebrity couples game It's Your Bet
It's Your Bet

It's Your Bet was an United States television game show which aired in television syndication from 1969-1973.The series was a revised version of the NBC game show I'll Bet, which aired in 1965, and was a Ralph Andrews production....
.

Role as Batman

In 1972, when Burt Ward
Burt Ward

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 and Yvonne Craig
Yvonne Craig

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 reprised their Batman roles (as Robin
Robin (comics)

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 and Batgirl
Batgirl

Batgirl is the name of several fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics -- the most popular of which is Barbara Gordon -- depicted as female counterparts to the superhero Batman....
 respectively) for a TV public service announcement about equal pay for women, Adam West
Adam West

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 (who was trying to distance himself from the Batman role at the time) was absent. Instead, Gautier filled-in for West as Batman.

Voice-over roles

Gautier has performed several voice-over
Voice acting

Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animation characters and radio and audio dramas and comedy, doing voice-overs in radio and television Television advertisements, radio drama, dubbing foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides....
 roles in animation
Animated cartoon

An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn film for the Movie theater, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot . This is distinct from the term "animation" or "animated film", as not all follow the definition....
, including Rodimus Prime
Rodimus Prime

Rodimus Prime is a fictional character from the Transformers Transformers Universes....
 in the third season of the Transformers animated series from 1986-1987 (taking over for Judd Nelson
Judd Nelson

'Judd Asher Nelson' is an United States actor. He is arguably most known for his roles as John Bender in The Breakfast Club, Alec Newbary in St....
, who previously performed the role in the 1986 Transformers movie
The Transformers: The Movie

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), as well as Serpentor
Serpentor

Serpentor is a fictional character from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, a line of military-themed toys created by Hasbro. He was introduced in 1986 as a toy with an air chariot and introduced in the animated series that same year in the five part mini-series G.I....
 in the G.I. Joe series. He was also narrator for Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel

The Discovery Channel is an United States satellite and cable TV channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications....
's Search for Adventure.

Caricatures of celebrities

He is known for his caricature
Caricature

A caricature is either a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness, or in literature, a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others....
s of celebrities, and has written several instructional books on caricature, drawing
Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
, and cartooning
Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. Traditionally much of this work was, and still is, humorous, and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes....
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