'Diff'rent Strokes' Star Conrad Bain Dead at 89
January 16, 2013
Remembered
Actor Conrad Bain, best known for playing father figure Phillip Drummond on “Diff’rent Strokes,” has died in Livermore, CA at age 89, just weeks shy of his 90th birthday. The cause of death has not been released.
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Conrad became a household name as Dr. Arthur Harmon on the hit show “Maude” and went on to star in “Diff’rent Strokes” as Park Avenue millionaire Phillip Drummond opposite Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges.
Bain is survived by his four children, and a twin brother, Bonar,
Coleman died in 2010 at age 42. Co-star Dana Plato died of a drug overdose in 1999 at age 34.
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