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Richard Anderson
Age: 83
Height: 6' 4"
Birth Place: Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Born: Aug. 8th, 1926
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Richard Anderson's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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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:
- Is a spokesperson for the Kiplinger Newsletter and The Fragile X Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors of Veteran's Park.
- 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).
- He had three daughters, Ashley (b. circa 1962), Brooke (b. circa 1964), and Deva (b. circa 1966).
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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