Conrad Bain, Father on 'Diff'rent Strokes', Dies at 89

Conrad Bain, an accomplished stage and film actor who was best known for a late-career role on television as the white adoptive father of two poor black boys on the long-running comedy “Diff'rent Strokes,” died on Monday in Livermore, Calif. He was 89.The "Diff'rent Strokes" actor says he "cried all day" over the loss of his co-star."He will be missed, but never forgotten," surviving castmember Todd Bridges tells Us Weekly.NEW YORK -- Conrad Bain, a veteran stage and film actor who became a star in middle age as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," has died. Bain died Monday of natural causes in hisConrad Bain, a wryly appealing actor who became a household name to millions of TV viewers on the sitcom “Diff'rent Strokes” as a white New York industrialist who adopts two orphans from Harlem, died Jan. 14 in Livermore, Calif. He was 89. His daughter
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