Dick Sargent

Replacing a familiar face mid-series is the most thankless assignment in television, and Sargent took it on with remarkable grace. Stepping in as the second Darrin on Bewitched meant being compared, weekly, to a man the audience already loved, yet he played the part on his own terms and kept the show standing until the end. I find that quiet professionalism more admirable than flashier careers. Even his stage name, borrowed from a magazine illustrator, suggests a working actor's pragmatism. He died in 1994, but for me he remains the patron saint of every performer asked to follow someone else and decent enough to simply do the work.

This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.

Name (English)

Dick Sargent

Name (Japanese)

ディック・サージェント

Reading

でぃっく・さーじぇんと

Born

April 19, 1930 – July 8, 1994

Origin

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Sargent
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q441356

Tags

• California
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.