Background
Shull was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Zana Marie (née Brown), a court stenographer, and Ulysses Homer Shull, a manufacturing executive.
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Richard Bruce Shull
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Shull attended York High School in Elmhurst, Illinois. The University of Iowa. And served in the United States. Army before starting his Broadway career as a stage manager.
Career
He got his first big break as an actor when he was cast in Minnie"s Boys in 1970. Shull"s screen credits include The Anderson Tapes (1971), Klute (1971), Slither (1973), The Fortune (1975), Splash (1984), Garbo Talks (1984), Unfaithfully Yours (1984), Housesitter (1992) and Private Parts (1997). His television appearances included Love, American Style, Ironside, Good Times, The Rockford Files, Alice, Lou Grant, Hart to Hart, and Holmes & Yo-Yo, as well as numerous television movies.
In a 2012 interview, Shull"s Holmes & Yo-Yo co-star John Schuck remembered him as "a very funny actor and a unique man," adding that Shull "lived in the ’40s.
He bought ’40s clothing, he only used pen and ink, he had his own railroad car which he would attach to trains and travel around the country. He had a 1949 Chevrolet car.
I mean, he truly lived in the past Quite remarkable."
In 1995, Shull co-founded the North American Araucanian Royalist Society (NAARS) with Daniel Paul Morrison.
The NAARS studies the Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia which was founded in 1860 by the Mapuche people of South America.
The NAARS devoted a large portion of issue northern 10 of their official journal, The Steel Crown, to the life of Shull. Shull died of a heart attack while appearing in the play Epic Proportions in New York City.
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Democrat