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Richard Norman Anderson (born August 8, 1926) is an American actor in film

Film

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and television

Television

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.

Anderson was born in Long Branch, New Jersey

Long Branch, New Jersey

Long Branch is a City in Monmouth County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 31,340....
, the son of Olga (née

Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
Lurie) and Harry Anderson. He is probably best known for his role as Lee Majors

Lee Majors

Lee Majors is an American actor, primarily known for several high profile roles on television in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.Majors is known for his roles as Barbara Stanwyck's husband's illegitimate son, Heath Barkley, on The Big Valley , as Arthur Hill's law partner/friend, Jess Brandon, on Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law , as Colone...
's and Lindsay Wagner

Lindsay Wagner

Lindsay Jean Wagner is an Emmy Award winning American actor, best known for her role as Jaime Sommers in the 1970s TV series The Bionic Woman....
's boss, Oscar Goldman

Oscar Goldman

Oscar Goldman is a fictional character created by Martin Caidin and introduced in his 1972 novel Cyborg . In the 1970s, he was portrayed by Richard Anderson in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman television series which were based upon Cyborg....
, in both The Six Million Dollar Man
The Six Million Dollar Man

The Six Million Dollar Man is an United States television series about a fictional cyborg working for the OSI . The show was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin, and during pre-production, that was the proposed title of the series....
and The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman

The Bionic Woman is an United States Television program which spin-off from The Six Million Dollar Man. It starred Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers , a tennis professional who was nearly killed in a Parachuting accident, and was rebuilt by Oscar Goldman and Dr....
TV series and their three subsequent TV movies.

On the big screen, his many films included the science-fiction classic Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 in film science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen....
and the gripping World War I drama Paths of Glory
Paths of Glory

Paths of Glory is a war film film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb....
directed by Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
, in which Anderson played the prosecuting attorney.

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Richard Norman Anderson (born August 8, 1926) is an American actor in film

Film

Television

Long Branch, New Jersey

Long Branch is a City in Monmouth County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 31,340....
, the son of Olga (née

Married and maiden names

Lee Majors

Lindsay Wagner

Lindsay Jean Wagner is an Emmy Award winning American actor, best known for her role as Jaime Sommers in the 1970s TV series The Bionic Woman....
's boss, Oscar Goldman

Oscar Goldman

Stanley Kubrick

Joanne Woodward

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an United States Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes Film Festival award-winning actress. Woodward, widow of Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer....
) in 1958's The Long, Hot Summer
The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer is a 1958 film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, and Orson Welles. The film is based on stories by William Faulkner, primarily "The Hamlet." The film was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, with Newman winning the award for Best Actor Award ....
and a suspicious military officer in the 1964 drama Seven Days in May.

But it is the remarkable number of television series in his career for which Anderson will be best remembered. From Zorro in the late '50s to dozens of roles in the decades to come, he was one of the medium's busiest character actors.

The 1960s found Anderson making appearances in Perry Mason
Perry Mason

Perry Mason is a fictional character, a defense Lawyer who originally was the main character in numerous pieces of detective fiction authored by Erle Stanley Gardner....
(in 22 episodes as police lieutenant Steve Drumm, replacing the character of Lt. Tragg), The Untouchables, The Rifleman
The Rifleman

The Rifleman is an United States Western television program that ran from on American Broadcasting Company, from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963, a production of Four Star Television....
, Death Valley Days
Death Valley Days

Death Valley Days is a long-running United States old-time radio and television Anthology series about true stories of the American Old West, particularly the Death Valley area....
, The Eleventh Hour
The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)

The Eleventh Hour is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey , Jack Ging , and Ralph Bellamy , which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on National Broadcasting Company from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964....
, I Spy
I spy

I spy is a guessing game usually played in families with young children, partly to assist in both observation and in alphabet familiarity. I spy is often played as a car game....
, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television program that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968....
, The Fugitive
The Fugitive (TV series)

The Fugitive is an United States television series produced by Quinn Martin and United Artists Television that aired on American Broadcasting Corporation from 1963-1967....
, Bonanza
Bonanza

Bonanza is an United States television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons, it is among the longest running Western television series and continues to air in syndication....
, The Invaders
The Invaders

The Invaders, a Quinn Martin, is an American Broadcasting Company science fiction television program created by Larry Cohen that ran in the United States for two seasons, from January 10, 1967 to March 26, 1968....
, and The Big Valley
The Big Valley

The Big Valley is an American television series Western fiction which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1965 to 1969. It was created by A.I....
, among others. In 1961-1962, Anderson co-starred with Marilyn Maxwell

Marilyn Maxwell

Marilyn Maxwell , born Marvel Marilyn Maxwell, was an American actress and entertainer.Noted for her blonde hair and sexy persona she appeared in several films and radio programs, and entertained the troops during World War II and the Korean War on United Service Organizations tours with Bob Hope....
in an ABC production of Bus Stop
Bus stop

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, a drama

Drama

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about travelers passing through a bus depot and diner in the fictitious town of Sunrise, Colorado

Colorado

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
.

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
Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
, Ironside
Ironside (TV series)

Ironside is a Universal Studios television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to February 6, 1975. The character's debut was in a TV-movie on March 28, 1967....
, Columbo
Columbo

Columbo is an American crime fiction TV series, starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department....
and The Love Boat
The Love Boat

The Love Boat is an United States television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the American Broadcasting Company from 1977 in television until 1986 in television....
. Anderson was just as busy in the 1980s on Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels is a Television program about three women who work for a private investigator agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men....
, Knight Rider
Knight Rider

Knight Rider is an United States television series that originally ran from September 26, 1982, to August 8, 1986. The series was broadcast on NBC and starred David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, a high-tech modern-day knight fighting crime....
, Remington Steele
Remington Steele

Remington Steele is an United States television series, produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 in television to 1987 in television....
, Cover Up
Cover Up

Cover Up is a CBS television series created by Glen A. Larson that ran from September 22, 1984 to April 6, 1985. The series lasted one season and starred Jennifer O'Neill, Jon-Erik Hexum, Antony Hamilton, and Richard Anderson....
, The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy was an United States television program produced for American Broadcasting Company and originally broadcast from 1981 in television to 1986 in television....
, Simon & Simon
Simon & Simon

Simon & Simon is a 1980s detective television series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker....
, and Murder, She Wrote. Anderson also had a recurring role as Sen. Buck Fallmont on Dynasty
Dynasty (TV series)

Dynasty is an United States prime time television soap opera that aired on American Broadcasting Company from January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989....
from 1986-1987.

In the 1990s, Anderson served as narrator of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues was a spin off to the 1972-1975 television series, Kung Fu . This series debuted in broadcast syndication for four seasons, from January 27, 1993 to January 1, 1997, and the show was broadcast in over 70 countries....
. He may also be remembered as a commercial spokesperson for the Shell Oil Company

Shell Oil Company

Shell Oil Company is the United States-based affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational corporation oil company of Anglo Netherlands origins, which is amongst the largest oil company in the world....
in the United States known as the "The Shell Answer Man". Created by the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather

Ogilvy & Mather

Ogilvy & Mather is an international advertising, marketing, and public relations agency based in New York City and owned by the WPP Group. The company operates 497 offices in 125 countries around the world and employs approximately 16,000 professionals....
, "The Shell Answer Man" appeared in commercials from 1976 to 1982.

Filmography

Go for Broke!
Go for Broke! (1951 film)

Go for Broke! is a war film released in 1951. It was directed by Robert Pirosh, produced by Dore Schary and starred Van Johnson, several veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Henry Nakamura....
as a Debarkation officer who has difficulty with Japanese names.
Scaramouche
Scaramouche (1952 film)

Scaramouche is a 1952 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romantic adventure film based on the 1921 novel Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini as well as the Scaramouche starring Ram?n Novarro....
as Philippe de Valmorin.
Paths of Glory
Paths of Glory

Paths of Glory is a war film film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb....
as a French military prosecutor in World War I.
A Gathering of Eagles
A Gathering of Eagles

A Gathering of Eagles is a 1963 movie about the Cold War and the pressures of command. The plot is patterned after the film Twelve O'Clock High, which producer-screenwriter Sy Bartlett also wrote, with elements also mirroring Above and Beyond , a film written by his collaborator, Beirne Lay, Jr.....
as Colonel Josten.
Seconds
Seconds (film)

Seconds is a 1966 in film Cinema of the United States film starring Rock Hudson. Characterized sometimes as a science fiction Thriller , but with elements of Horror film, neo-noir, psychedelia, and drama, the film was directed by John Frankenheimer with a screenplay by Lewis John Carlino....
as a conspiratorial plastic surgeon
Plastic surgery

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.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 United States-Japanese film that dramatizes the Empire of Japan attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production....
as a Naval captain who ignores first warnings of Japanese activity at Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor is a harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu, Hawaii. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base....
.
Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 in film science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen....
as Engineering Officer Quinn
Gettysburg
Gettysburg (film)

Gettysburg is a 1993 film that dramatizes the decisive Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. It was directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, who also wrote the screenplay, a close adaptation of Michael Shaara's 1974 novel The Killer Angels, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1975....
as General
General

A General officer is an Officer of high military rank. The term or equivalent is used by nearly every country in the world. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is just called general....
George G. Meade
Hit the Deck
Hit the Deck (1955 film)

Hit the Deck is a 1955 in film musical film directed by Roy Rowland and starring Jane Powell. Tony Martin , Debbie Reynolds, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Raymond, Ann Miller, Russ Tamblyn,and Vic Damone....
as Marco Javier, aide to Rear Admiral Smith (Walter Pidgeon
Walter Pidgeon

Walter Davis Pidgeon was an American actor of Canada birth, who lived most of his life in the United States, and eventually became a U.S. citizen....
).
The Long, Hot Summer
The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer is a 1958 film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, and Orson Welles. The film is based on stories by William Faulkner, primarily "The Hamlet." The film was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, with Newman winning the award for Best Actor Award ....
(1958) as Allen Stewart, love interest of Clara Varner.

In 1979, he starred, with Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook

Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an United States actor. He is best known for his appearances in several TV series, such as Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt....
, Katharine Ross

Katharine Ross

Katharine Juliet Ross is an Academy Award-nominated American film and theatre actress. Trained at the San Francisco Workshop, she is perhaps best known for her role as Elaine Robinson in the 1967 film The Graduate, opposite Dustin Hoffman, and her role as Etta Place in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, opposite Paul Newman a...
, and Barry Bostwick

Barry Bostwick

Barry Knapp Bostwick is an United States actor and singer. He is arguably best known for playing Brad Majors in the 1975 cult following classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, replacing Peter Scolari as Mr....
in the TV movie "Murder by Natural Causes".

Richard Anderson

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