Conrad Bain, a veteran stage and film actor who became a star as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African American brothers in the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," has died.

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 ...

Actor Conrad Bain, best known for his role on the 1970s and '80s television comedy "Diff'rent Strokes" as a wealthy, white New Yorker who adopts two young black boys from Harlem, has died at age ...

Conrad Bain played the role of Phillip Drummond, the wealthy Park Avenue businessman who takes in the two young brothers, Arnold and Willis, after their mother's passing.

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 ...

This just in: Conrad Bain, the veteran actor of stage and screen -- and most prominently TV -- has died. He was 89. Bain, best known as Mr. Drummond, the starchy plutocrat of that long-ago hit ...

Aw, file this under: Wait, he wasn't already dead? But Conrad Bain, Mr. Drummond from Diff'rent Strokes has died. That leaves just Todd Bridges as the only remaining living cast member of that ...

Todd Bridges at the bottom left, with Charlotte Rae, Conrad Bain, Dana Plato, and, of course, Gary Coleman in a promotional image from 'Diff'rent Strokes' "The first three years, me and Gary were ...

Actor Conrad Bain, best known for his role on the 1970s and '80s television comedy "Diff'rent Strokes" as a wealthy, white New Yorker who adopts two young black boys from Harlem, has died at age ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Conrad Bain, who starred as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," has died.