Richard Anderson
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Richard Anderson, born Richard Norman Anderson (born August 8, 1926 in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA) is an actor in film and television. He is probably best known for his role as Lee Majors's and Lindsay Wagner's boss, Oscar Goldman in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman TV series and their 3 subsequent made for TV movies. Beginning in the early 1950s, Anderson appeared in a number of TV shows including Zorro. The 1960s found Anderson making appearances in The Rifleman, Perry Mason (a recurring role as police lieutenant Steve Drumm, replacing the character of Lt. Tragg), Death Valley Days, I Spy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Fugitive, Bonanza, and Big Valley among others. In addition to his appearances on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman in the 70's, Anderson also guest starred on Gunsmoke, Ironside, and The Love Boat. Anderson was just as busy in the 1980s guest starring on Charlie's Angels, Knight Rider, Remington Steele, Cover Up, The Fall Guy, Simon & Simon, and Murder She Wrote. Anderson also had a recurring role as Sen. Buck Fallmont on Dynasty from 1986-1987.
Motion picture appearances include:
- Go for Broke as a Debarkation officer who has difficulty with Japanese names.
- Scaramouche as Philippe de Valmorin.
- Paths of Glory as a French military prosecutor in World War I.
- Seconds as a conspiratorial plastic surgeon.
- Tora! Tora! Tora! Naval captain who ignores first warnings of Japanese activity at Pearl Harbor.
- Forbidden Planet as Engineering Officer Quinn
- Gettysburg as General George G. Meade
- Hit the Deck as Navy Lieutenant Jackson, aide to Rear Admiral Smith (Walter Pidgeon).
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He also appeared in the movie "Seven Days In May".
