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Lanscroft (The Butler and the Maid)
Played by Harvey Korman
Lanscroft is the wealthy husband played by Harvey Korman in The Carol Burnett Show's The Butler and the Maid (Season 9, 1976). Too refined to cut his own food, he answers his wife's suspicions about other women by having his butler trade…
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Lanscroft is the wealthy husband played by Harvey Korman in The Carol Burnett Show's The Butler and the Maid (Season 9, 1976). Too refined to cut his own food, he answers his wife's suspicions about other women by having his butler trade slaps and insults with her maid on his behalf.
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