Biography: Richard Anderson appeared in high school plays, served a hitch in the Army and, upon his discharge, began doing summer stock, radio work, a movie bit part (a wounded soldier in "Twelve O'Clock High (1949)") and all the other minor jobs required of your basic struggling actor. He did comedy scenes on a "screen test"-like TV series called "Lights, Camera, Action!" (1950)" and impressed the right peo ... show all Richard Anderson appeared in high school plays, served a hitch in the Army and, upon his discharge, began doing summer stock, radio work, a movie bit part (a wounded soldier in "Twelve O'Clock High (1949)") and all the other minor jobs required of your basic struggling actor. He did comedy scenes on a "screen test"-like TV series called "Lights, Camera, Action!" (1950)" and impressed the right people at MGM, who offered him a contract. After leaving MGM he continued to dabble in movies while at the same time becoming a huge presence on TV. He was a regular (Police Lt. Drum) during the last season of TV's "Perry Mason" (1957)"; in the series' last episode, he interrogates witnesses to a murder in a TV studio--the witnesses being played by the "Perry Mason" crew. In the high-rated last episode of "Fugitive, The" (1963)" he plays Richard Kimble's (David Janssen ) brother-in-law, and is briefly suspected of being the real killer of Kimble's wife. A regular on "Six Million Dollar Man, The" (1974)", Anderson has more recently produced the TV-movie reprises of that series. hide |
