# RIP Mr. Drummond... Conrad Bain dead at 89 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403 "2013-01-16T18:08:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/1 "2013-01-16T18:08:22Z")
[Story here.](http://www.tmz.com/2013/01/16/conrad-bain-dead-diffrent-strokes/) Hard to believe he outlived two of his TV kids. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/2 "2013-01-16T18:18:26Z")
Wahtchoo talkin 'bout, Willis? (too soon?) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/3 "2013-01-16T18:24:41Z")
His identical twin (Bonar Bain, a.k.a. Hank Bain, a.k.a. Zontar) just keeps on trucking, though! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/4 "2013-01-16T18:25:50Z")
It would have been cool if his twin had been named Darnoc. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/5 "2013-01-16T19:45:41Z")
He seemed like a likable role model, playing himself, rather than being an actor playing a role. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/6 "2013-01-16T20:30:46Z")
Was it one, or a series of different strokes that killed him? ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/7 "2013-01-16T20:36:56Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Was it one, or a series of different strokes that killed him? You owe me a new keyboard, mine now has lemonade spit all over it. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/8 "2013-01-16T20:45:36Z")
Wow, I figured he died a long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/9 "2013-01-16T20:52:06Z")
“Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men’s room.” - Jenna Maroney ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/10 "2013-01-16T23:52:50Z")
He seemed like a really nice guy. Todd Bridges calls him a [father figure](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/01/16/diffrent-strokes-dad-conrad-bain-dies-at-age-8/) off screen. I first remember him from _Maude_. He played Walter’s old army buddy friend. Walter was Maude’s husband. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/11 "2013-01-17T00:01:13Z")
Great photo with Conrad Bain, as Arthur Harmon) (left) and American actors Bill Macy (as Walter Findlay) and Rue McClanahan (as Vivian Harmon) in a scene from Maude. [http://www.wsoctv.com/photo/entertainment/conrad-bain-diffrent-strokes-dead-89/pnJ2s/](http://www.wsoctv.com/photo/entertainment/conrad-bain-diffrent-strokes-dead-89/pnJ2s/) Bill Macy is the only one left alive. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/12 "2013-01-17T03:41:57Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Great photo with Conrad Bain, as Arthur Harmon) (left) and American actors Bill Macy (as Walter Findlay) and Rue McClanahan (as Vivian Harmon) in a scene from Maude. > [http://www.wsoctv.com/photo/entertainment/conrad-bain-diffrent-strokes-dead-89/pnJ2s/](http://www.wsoctv.com/photo/entertainment/conrad-bain-diffrent-strokes-dead-89/pnJ2s/) > > Bill Macy is the only one left alive. ☹ God! Bill Macy is still alive! The last time I saw him was when he played a demon in an outstanding episode of [_Millennium_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somehow,_Satan_Got_Behind_Me), and that was more than fifteen years ago and he looked ancient then! > [@hogarth](#): > > His identical twin (Bonar Bain, a.k.a. Hank Bain, a.k.a. Zontar) just keeps on trucking, though! I assume that was from that great SCTV episode? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-drummond-conrad-bain-dead-at-89/647403/13 "2013-01-17T15:44:48Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > I assume that was from that great SCTV episode? Of course. They renamed Bonar Bain to Hank Bain, presumably because the name “Bonar” sounded too phony.