Richard B. Shull

Richard B. Shull (1929-1999) was a character actor, beginning on stage as well as a familiar face in movies and TV. He appeared briefly in Sesame Street Episode 2544 as the mayor, who hands Blue Bird an award in Big Bird's story. Two seasons later, production call sheets for Episode 2840 list Shull as an on-call actor for the scene where the mayor (real New York City mayor David Dinkins) arrives, but the actor is not included in the final episode.Season 22 segments spreadsheet.
On TV, Shull's highest profile role was on the short-lived sitcom Holmes and Yoyo (1976-1977) as Holmes, a detective whose new partner is a robot. He was also a regular on the equally brief Diana Rigg sitcom Diana (1973-1974). He made guest appearances on Alice, Lou Grant, The Rockford Files, As the World Turns, and The Ropers. 
He was busiest, however, on the New York stage, beginning in the 1950s as a stage manager off and on Broadway and progressing to small roles. He had prominent parts in the musicals Minnie's Boys (about the Marx Brothers), Goodtime Charley (with Joel Grey, for which Shull received a Tony nomination), and Victor/Victoria (with Julie Andrews). Straight plays, mostly comedies, included Fools by Neil Simon, the revival of The Front Page, and the 1998 off-Broadway A Flea in Her Ear (directed by Bill Irwin), as well as a 1979 production of The Tempest (as Stephano, with Anthony Hopkins as Prospero).
In film, he was part of the ensemble cast in The Big Bus (directed by James Frawley), as a passenger with only months to live, and played supporting roles in The Anderson Tapes (with Dyan Cannon), Slither (with Sally Kellerman), Splash (as the scientist planning to dissect the mermaid), Tune in Tomorrow (with Peter Falk and Bill McCutcheon), Seize the Day (with Robin Williams), Unfaithfully Yours (with Dudley Moore and Richard Libertini), the Frank Oz film HouseSitter, and Trapped in Paradise.
Shull died during the run of the 1999 Broadway musical Epic Proportions (with Kristin Chenoweth), playing a Cecil B. DeMille parody. 
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*IMDb
*Internet Broadway Database
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