Richard Anderson's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Six Million Dollar Man Oscar Goldman The Bionic Woman Oscar Goldman Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Narrator Perry Mason Lt. Steve D… Zorro (1957) Ricardo del… Cover Up Henry Towler Kane & Abel Alan Lloyd Dan August Chief Georg… Redigo Tom Walker Karen (1964) Teddy LaFarge Mama Rosa Mama's son Target: The Corruptors Earl Gilmore

Main Movie Roles 1993 - Gettysburg 1992 - The Player 1970 - Tora! Tora! Tora! 1966 - Seconds 1964 - Kitten with a Whip 1964 - Seven Days in May 1960 - The Wackiest Ship in the Army 1959 - Compulsion 1958 - The Long, Hot Summer 1957 - Paths of Glory 1956 - Forbidden Planet 1952 - Scaramouche 1951 - Storm Warning 1951 - The People Against O'Hara 1951 - Go For Broke! 1951 - Across the Wide Missouri 1947 - La perla

BIOGRAPHY:

Richard Anderson appeared in high school plays, served a hitch in the Army and, upon his discharge, began doing summer stock, radio work, a movie bit part (a wounded soldier in Twelve O'Clock High (1949)) and all the other minor jobs required of your basic struggling actor. He did comedy scenes on a "screen test"-like TV series called "Lights, Camera, Action!" (1950) and impressed the right people at MGM, who offered him a contract. After leaving MGM he continued to dabble in movies while at the same time becoming a huge presence on TV. He was a regular (Police Lt. Drum) during the last season of TV's "Perry Mason" (1957); in the series' last episode, he interrogates witnesses to a murder in a TV studio--the witnesses being played by the "Perry Mason" crew. In the high-rated last episode of "The Fugitive" (1963) he plays Richard Kimble's (David Janssen (I)) brother-in-law, and is briefly suspected of being the real killer of Kimble's wife. A regular on "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974), Anderson has more recently produced the TV-movie reprises of that series.


TRIVIA:

• Influenced to become an actor after seeing 'Gary Cooper (I)' (qv) on the screen, his initial screen test for MGM was from Cooper's _The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)_ (qv). He later had the privilege of meeting the star.
• In July 2005, appeared as a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina along with 'Ty Hardin' (qv), 'Henry Darrow' (qv), 'Donna Douglas (I)' (qv), 'Elena Verdugo' (qv), 'Jo Morrow' (qv), 'Ed Nelson (I)' (qv) and 'Lorna Gray (I)' (qv).
• Is one of the very few actors to play the same regular character on two different series simultaneously. From 1976 to 1978, he played Oscar Goldman on both _"The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974)_ (qv) and _"The Bionic Woman" (1976)_ (qv). 'Leo G. Carroll' (qv), 'Martin E. Brooks' (qv), 'David Hasselhoff' (qv) and 'Fred Dalton Thompson' (qv) are among the other actors to have done this.
• Is a spokesperson for the Kiplinger Newsletter and The Fragile X Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors of Veteran's Park.
• In _"The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974)_ (qv), Richard's character worked for a government department called the OSI. In real life, he did an orientation video for a real government department called the OSI, which was very different from the fictional one.
• His second wife was the daughter of 'Norma Shearer' (qv) and 'Irving Thalberg' (qv).
• Studied at the Actors Laboratory in Los Angeles, which later became the Actors Studio in New York.
• His first wife was the daughter of 'Alan Ladd (I)' (qv).