Dan Resin

Dan Resin (February 22, 1931 – July 31, 2010) was an American actor born in South Bend, Indiana, whose career spanned Broadway, film, and television across several decades. His parents divorced when he was three years old. He met the woman who would become his wife during seventh grade. Resin earned a degree from Indiana University Bloomington in 1954, where he joined the Alpha Iota Chapter of the Theta Chi fraternity. Following graduation, he was drafted into the United States Army and stationed at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. After his military discharge, he completed additional studies at Columbia University in New York City.

Before establishing himself as an actor, Resin held a variety of positions, working as a singer and serving as Master of Ceremonies at both the Roxy Theater and Radio City Music Hall. His Broadway career ran from 1956 to 1966 and included a number of notable productions. He portrayed Freddie Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady in 1956 and appeared in the original off-Broadway production of Once Upon a Mattress, remaining with the show when it transferred successfully to Broadway. His additional Broadway credits included On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Fade Out - Fade In, The Young Abe Lincoln, My Fair Ladies, and Don't Drink the Water.

Resin accumulated a substantial film career alongside his stage work. He portrayed Dr. Beeper in the 1980 comedy Caddyshack, a role for which he became widely recognized. He played a young Richard Nixon in the 1972 parody film Richard, and his other film appearances included The Happy Hooker (1975), The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover, The Sunshine Boys, Wise Guys, Deadhead Miles, Crazy Joe, God Told Me To, Hail, Soggy Bottom USA, That's Adequate, If Ever I See You Again, The Man With One Red Shoe, and Music Box.

His television work included the CBS series On Our Own and the NBC program Go USA, as well as the soap opera Edge of Night, Lovers and Friends, and the David Frost Review. He made appearances on the children's program Captain Kangaroo and was featured in the 1978 syndicated comedy Madhouse Brigade, as well as the series Remember WENN and New York Undercover, and the television film Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again. Resin also became broadly familiar to general audiences through television commercials, most notably as the Ty-D-Bol man. During the 1970s and 1980s he filmed as many as two or three commercials per week, and during one Super Bowl broadcast he had two starring commercials air consecutively.

Resin and his wife, Margaret, lived in Union City, New Jersey, before relocating to Weehawken and later Secaucus. The couple had three daughters: Elizabeth, Maryanne, and Alexandra. Following a semi-retirement from acting, Resin served as an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion. He died on July 31, 2010, from complications of Parkinson's disease at the age of 79, survived by his wife of 55 years and their three daughters.