Job Film and television actor
Years active 1947-present
Known for Senior officers, wise counsellors
Top Roles Henry Malvine, Alan Stewart, Dr. Innes, Maj. Saint, Chief Quinn
Top GenresDrama, Comedy, Romance, Musical, Film Adaptation, Crime
Top TopicsBook-Based, Based on Play, Aviation
Top Collaborators , (Director), (Producer),
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Richard Anderson Overview:

Character actor, Richard Anderson, was born Richard Norman Anderson on Aug 8, 1926 in Long Branch, NJ. Anderson appeared in over 180 film and TV roles. His best known films include Scaramouche (as Philippe de Valmorin), Dream Wife (as Henry Malvine), Forbidden Planet (as Chief Quinn) and The Long Hot Summer (as Alan Stewart). Anderson died at the age of 91 on Aug 31, 2017 in Beverly Hills, CA .

MINO BIO:

Lean-faced and brainy-looking, Richard Anderson found a niche as senior officers and wise counsellors in successful TV series (most notably The Six Million Dollar Man) after his days as an MGM contract player were over.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

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However he won one Honorary Award in 1981 -- Ben Burtt, Richard L. Anderson .

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1926 – 2017

By Marisa on Oct 4, 2017 From The Timothy Carey Experience

Better late than never, folks. , Timothy’s co-star in Paths of Glory (1957) (two years later they both appeared in The Gunfight at Dodge City, though not together), passed away on August 31 (my birthday!) of this year at the age of 91. He was of course best known for his role a... Read full article


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Richard Anderson Quotes:

Alan Stewart: My people have stood off Indians, Yankees, carpetbaggers. The least they could expect of me is to stand up to a Varner.


Chief Engineer Quinn: I'll bet any quantum mechanic in the service would give the rest of his life to fool around with this gadget.


Philippe de Valmorin: [about a revolutionary pamphlet] Well, what do you think of it?
Andre Moreau: Well, the grammar is appalling. On the first page you've doubled two negatives, split an infinitive and missed out three commas.
Philippe de Valmorin: Negatives, infinitives, commas... he prattles punctuation while France is in agony!


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Richard Anderson Facts
Studied at the Actors Laboratory in Los Angeles, which later became the Actors Studio in New York.

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) and "The Bionic Woman" (1976). Leo G. Carroll, Martin E. Brooks, David Hasselhoff and Fred Dalton Thompson are among the other actors to have done this.

In "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974), 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.

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