Richard Anderson
| Richard Anderson | |
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 Anderson at the Big Apple Convention in Manhattan, October 2, 2010. |
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| Born | Richard Norman Anderson August 8, 1926 Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1947–present |
| Spouse | Carol Lee Ladd (1955-1956) (divorced) Katharine Thalberg (1961-1973) (divorced) 3 daughters |
Richard Norman Anderson (born August 8, 1926) is an American actor in film and television, known to TV audiences as Steve Austin's (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers' (Lindsay Wagner) boss, Oscar Goldman, in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman TV series and their three subsequent TV movies: The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987), Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989) and Bionic Ever After? (1994).[1]
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[edit] Early life
Anderson was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, the son of Olga (née Lurie) and Harry Anderson. (Referred to as 'Randy' Or 'Randerson by friends and family)[2][3]
[edit] Career
On the big screen, his many films included the science-fiction classic Forbidden Planet (1956) and the World War I drama Paths of Glory (1957) directed by Stanley Kubrick, in which Anderson played the prosecuting attorney. He was the object of the unrequited love of Clara Varner (Joanne Woodward) in The Long, Hot Summer (1958) and a suspicious military officer in Seven Days in May (1964).
The 1960s found Anderson making appearances in Perry Mason (in 22 episodes as police lieutenant Steve Drumm, replacing the character of Lt. Tragg), The Untouchables, The Rifleman, Daniel Boone, Death Valley Days, Thriller (US TV series), The Eleventh Hour, I Spy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Fugitive (as brother in law to the protagonist Dr Richard Kimble), Bonanza, The Green Hornet, The Invaders, and The Big Valley, among others. In 1961-1962, Anderson co-starred with Marilyn Maxwell in an ABC production of Bus Stop, a drama about travelers passing through a bus depot and diner in the fictitious town of Sunrise, Colorado.
In addition to his appearances on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman in the 1970s, Anderson also guest starred on Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, Ironside, Columbo and The Love Boat. He also appeared in the made for TV movie, The Night Strangler as the villain, Dr. Richard Malcolm. Anderson was just as busy in the 1980s on Charlie's Angels, Matt Houston, Knight Rider, Remington Steele, Cover Up, The A-Team, The Fall Guy, Simon & Simon, and Murder, She Wrote. Anderson also had a recurring role as Senator Buck Fallmont on Dynasty from 1986-1987. He portrayed President Lyndon Johnson in the 1987 miniseries Hoover vs. The Kennedys.
In the 1990s, Anderson served as narrator and a recurring guest star for Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. He also served as a commercial spokesperson for the Shell Oil Company in the United States known as "The Shell Answer Man".[4] "The Shell Answer Man" appeared in commercials from 1976 to 1982. In 1999 and 2000, he costarred with Dick Van Patten, Richard Roundtree, Deborah Winters, and Hugh O'Brian in the Warren Chaney miniseries, Y2K - World in Crisis.[5][6][7]
[edit] Partial filmography
- La perla (1947)
- The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
- Grounds for Marriage (1951)
- Payment on Demand (1951)
- Cause for Alarm! (1951)
- Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)
- The People Against O'Hara (1951)
- Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
- The Unknown Man (1951)
- Scaramouche (1952), as Philippe de Valmorin
- The Story of Three Loves (1953)
- I Love Melvin (1953)
- Dream Wife (1953)
- Give a Girl a Break (1953)
- Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
- The Student Prince (1954)
- Hit the Deck (1955), as Marco Javier
- It's a Dog's Life (1955)
- Forbidden Planet (1956), as Engineering Officer Quinn
- Paths of Glory (1957), as a French military prosecutor
- The Long, Hot Summer (1958), as Alan Stewart
- Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
- Compulsion (1959)
- The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
- The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)
- A Gathering of Eagles (1963), as Colonel Josten
- Johnny Cool (1963)
- Seven Days in May (1964)
- Kitten with a Whip (1964)
- Seconds (1966), as Dr. Innes
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) as Navy Captain John B. Earle
- Perry Mason Returns (1985) as Ken Braddock
- Hoover vs. The Kennedys (1987) as Lyndon B. Johnson
- Gettysburg (1993), as General George G. Meade
- Breakout (1998)
- In the Lake of the Woods (1996)
- Bionic Ever After (1994)
- The Glass Shield (1994)
[edit] References
- ^ NNDB (Richard Anderson)
- ^ Krebs, Albin. "The Faces Are Familiar", The New York Times, September 5, 1976. Accessed March 4, 2011. ", boss of 'The $6-million Man,' who hails from Long Branch..."
- ^ Biography (1926-)
- ^ King, Byron, The Shell Answer Man, Energy Bulletin, Post Carbon Institute 02/27/2007 [1] Created by the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather,
- ^ Internet Movie Database (World in Crisis) [2]
- ^ Screened Reviews (Y2K: World in Crisis)
- ^ LibraryThing Review [3]
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