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He'll always be best known as "the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom Diff'rent Strokes," as The Associated Press writes.

Conrad Bain, 89, died Monday in Livermore, Calif., his daughter says.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/16/169525052/conrad-bain-mr-drummond-on-diffrent-strokes-dies


He was adopting poor black kids long before Angelina Jolie made it trendy. RIP.

I never knew he was Canadian, growing up. He seemed as decent in real life as he was on TV.

watched diff'rent strokes growing up.. Conrad Bain will be missed