. . . or Lane Smith, a natural to play Rather
A nice choice looks wise, but he died last year. Of course, that might be your point . . .
Too bad Howard Beal died before his time.
Indeed it was. However, I did not know (or recall) that he'd died until I went looking for him on IMDB to see if had a more recent role than Perry White on Lois & Clark back in the mid-90s. Lou Gerhig's disease. How sad.