Conrad Stafford Bain (born February 4, 1923) is a Canadian-American actor, best known to TV audiences as Phillip Drummond from the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes.
Bain was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, the son of Jean Agnes (née Young) and Stafford Harrison Bain, who was a wholesaler. Bain studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts before serving in the Canadian Army during World War II. He then studied in New York at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts...
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Conrad Stafford Bain (born February 4, 1923) is a Canadian-American actor, best known to TV audiences as Phillip Drummond from the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes.
Bain was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, the son of Jean Agnes (née Young) and Stafford Harrison Bain, who was a wholesaler. Bain studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts before serving in the Canadian Army during World War II. He then studied in New York at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where his classmates included actor Charles Durning and comedian Don Rickles; he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1946 before graduating in 1948.
Bain has three children with Monica Sloan, whom he has been married to since 1945. His identical twin brother is Bonar Bain, who once played his fictional evil twin ("Hank Bain") on an episode of SCTV.
After a stint at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival, Bain had further success as a stage actor in the 1956 Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. The...
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