<P> During that last season, a west coast trip led to an introduction to sitcom icon Ozzie Nelson, which, in turn, led to an appearance on Ozzie and Harriet (as per Nelson's habit of hiring athletes for guest spots on the show). Suddenly, acting was an option, and an increasingly attractive one, given Gleason's stillborn baseball career . He moved to New York City, eventually joining The Actors Studio, where he would study for four years before moving to Los Angeles . </P> <P> Gleason starred in many movies, and became well - known initially as Dr. David Thornton on All My Children, playing the role from 1976 to 1978 . He guest - starred in "The Trouble with Harry" and "Fire", two episodes of The A-Team . Gleason was known to Star Wars fans for his role as Jeremitt Towani in the 1985 made - for - TV film Ewoks: The Battle for Endor . He played the villainous Clarence Beeks, the Duke brothers' inside trader, in the 1983 comedy Trading Places starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy . He also played Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson, the blowhard police official, in Die Hard . </P> <P> Gleason played Richard Vernon, the disciplinarian school assistant principal, in the seminal 1985 film The Breakfast Club . He played similar characters in the 1988 film Johnny Be Good (as a high school football coach) and on several episodes of the TV sitcom Boy Meets World (as a university dean). He directly parodied his Breakfast Club role in the 2000 A-Teens music video for "Dancing Queen" and in the 2001 comedy film Not Another Teen Movie . </P> <P> In 2002, he appeared in episodes of Dawson's Creek as Larry Newman, the sex - and - violence obsessed chief of a B movie studio . He appeared as a nonsensical judge in an episode of Drake & Josh . He also appeared in an episode of George Lopez as the brother of George's boss, a crazy old drunk . In 2005, he appeared as the Sheriff in the horror film Abominable . His final appearance before his death was in an independent film called The Book of Caleb . </P>

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