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Karl Mayer is a fictional character played by actor Richard Burgi and created by television producer and screenwriter Marc Cherry for the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. He is the ex-husband of one of the titular characters housewife Susan Mayer (played by Teri Hatcher) and the father of Julie Mayer (played by Andrea Bowen) as well as a successful practitioner of family law.