If I had to cast the character of Dr. Lars Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, I guess I would cast the late Victor Buono.

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I pictured Lars as looking like David Hyde Pierce.

I pictured Lars as looking like David Hyde Pierce.

I was going to say DHP. I think he might've been good.

Ted described in the episode where Lars is fooling around with Sue Ann as a tall blond haired fellow. So DHP fits but if were talking an actor back then I really don't know.

Just a note: David Hyde Pierce is even younger than I thought, born in 1959. I realize this is all hypothetical, but to actually have played Lars he would have been pretty young indeed, as MaryFan1 alluded to...!

I pictured Troy Donahue as Lars.

I'm sure I've seen on the spinoff Phyllis,pictures in Audrey and Jonathan's

living room,a three picture frame one of Bess and one of a blond man I take

to be Lars.

I always get an image of a John Dever,looking Lars with a fussy personality

of a Tony Randall character.