Richard Anderson (actor)

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Richard Norman Anderson (born August 8, 1926 in Long Branch , New Jersey - † August 31, 2017 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American actor . His best-known role is that of Oscar Goldman in the television series The Six Million Dollar Man .

Live and act

Richard Anderson was born in New Jersey in 1926 to Olga Lurie and Harry Anderson . He played theater as an amateur actor in high school and studied at the University of Los Angeles until 1944 . From 1946 to 1947 he received acting training at the Actor's Lab there . Anderson made his debut in 1946 as an extra - he played a spearman - in the play Volpone at the Las Palmas Theater.

Shortly thereafter, offers from the film followed. Anderson's roles were often smooth and correct types, cultured and urban suit and uniform wearers, as in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece Paths to Fame , where he was seen alongside Kirk Douglas in the role of a major . He also often played good sons or sons-in-law, such as the cultivated Alan Stewart in Martin Ritt's southern drama The Long Hot Summer . Anderson's film characters often had no rough edges and were mostly on the "right side of the law".

Anderson was one of the busiest American television actors in the 1960s and 1970s, appearing as a guest on many television series such as Der Chef , Big Valley , Mannix , FBI , Columbo, and Smoking Colts . He starred in the Perry Mason lawyer series . His role as Oscar Goldman in the 1970s television series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Seven Million Dollar Woman is one of his most famous. He was also seen in the pilot of Knight Rider , where he played the role of Dr. Ralph Wesley played. Anderson was a regular actor on television until the late 1990s. In the US, Anderson was also known as the commercial spokesman for the Shell Oil Company as "The Shell Answer Man".

Private life

Anderson was married twice; both marriages were divorced: from 1955 to 1956 with Carol Lee Ladd, Alan Ladd's stepdaughter ; and from 1961 to 1973 with Katharine Thalberg, the daughter of Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg . The second marriage had three children. He died at his Beverly Hills home on August 31, 2017, aged 91.

The actor was honored with a Golden Palm on the Walk of Stars in Palm Springs , California in October 2007 .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Richard Anderson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Krebs, Albin (September 5, 1976). "The Faces Are Familiar" . The New York Times . "... boss of 'The $ 6-million Man', who hails from Long Branch ..."
  2. ↑ Anderson, Richard In: Stanley Kubrick Encyclopedia (English). Retrieved August 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ Richard Anderson Biography (1926-) (English) at Filmreference.com.Abgerufen on August 13, 2013.
  4. ↑ Paths of Glory (Paths of Glory) (PDF, 1.1 MB) Matthis Kepser. A film booklet. fb10.uni-bremen.de. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
  5. ↑ The long hot summer at splashmovies.de. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
  6. ↑ Richard Anderson at tvparadies.net. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
  7. ↑ Richard Anderson at imdb.com (English).
  8. ↑ Richard Anderson at riflemanconnors.com. (English). Retrieved August 13, 2013.
  9. ↑ Obituary of the Hollywood Reporter , accessed September 1, 2017.
  10. ↑ Richard Anderson ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 236 kB) Walk of Stars at palmspringswalkofstars.com. Retrieved August 13, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.palmspringswalkofstars.com
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Richard Norman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Branch , New Jersey , United States
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2017
Place of death Beverly Hills