Alan Rachins dead at 82: Actor starred on LA Law and Dharma & Greg Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com Published: 21:11, 2 November 2024 | Updated: 21:44, 2 November 2024 e-mail View comments Alan Rachins, the beloved TV star of such hit series as LA Law and Dharma & Greg, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 82.
He succumbed to heart failure while asleep at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center early Saturday morning, his widow Joanna Frank told The Hollywood Reporter . Rachins became a household name in the 1980s and 1990s LA Law, in which he played the rich, tough-as-nails, philandering attorney Douglas Brackman. In a switch that showed his range, he also played a marijuana-smoking hippie with a fondness for conspiracy theories on the sitcom Dharma & Greg from 1997 to 2002.
He also enjoyed a varied stage career, including a run in the original off-Broadway production of the boundary-breaking revue Oh! Calcutta. Alan Rachins, the beloved TV star of such hit series as LA Law and Dharma & Greg, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 82; pictured on LA Law Read More Corbin Bernsen set to return as Arnie Becker in ABC's L.A.
Law sequel series alongside original co-star Blair Underwood Rachins was born in 1942 to a Jewish family in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up under the thumb of what he described as a 'domineering father.' Arts and entertainment became an escape valve for young Rachins, who was particularly inspired by the 1955 picture R.