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Richard Norman Anderson was an American film and television actor. Among his best-known roles was his portrayal of Oscar Goldman, the boss of Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman television series between 1974 and 1978 and their subsequent television movies: The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987), Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989) and Bionic Ever After? (1994). Appeared as Matthew Lowry in The Wagon Train in 1959. Anderson appeared in several episodes of the TV series Perry Mason.
Birth Name
Richard Norman Anderson
Born
Sunday, 08 August 1926
Died
Thursday, 31 August 2017
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Classic Hollywood Cinemas | Self | 2016 |
| Talent Watch | Self - Guest | 2012 |
| Beyond the Marquee | Self - Guest | 2011 |
| Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger | Himself / Self | 2010 |
| When the World Breaks | Self | 2010 |
| Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films | Husband (archive footage) / Husband | 2003 |
| Sciography | Himself | 2000 |
| Breakout | American Businessman | 1998 |
| E! Mysteries & Scandals | Self | 1998 |
| Extreme Ghostbusters | Jack Stone | 1997 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Classic Hollywood Cinemas | Self | 2016 |
| Talent Watch | Self - Guest | 2012 |
| Beyond the Marquee | Self - Guest | 2011 |
| Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger | Himself / Self | 2010 |
| When the World Breaks | Self | 2010 |
| Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films | Husband (archive footage) / Husband | 2003 |
| Sciography | Himself | 2000 |
| Breakout | American Businessman | 1998 |
| E! Mysteries & Scandals | Self | 1998 |
| Extreme Ghostbusters | Jack Stone | 1997 |
| In the Lake of the Woods | Claude Rasmussen | 1996 |
| Bionic Ever After? | Oscar Goldman | 1994 |
| The Glass Shield | Watch Commander Clarence Massey | 1994 |
| Gettysburg | Maj. Gen. George G. Meade | 1993 |
| Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Narrator, Capt. Stiles, Captain Bartlett Stiles / Narrator | 1993 |
| The Player | Richard Anderson | 1992 |
| Lucky Chances | Mr. Duke | 1990 |
| Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman | Oscar Goldman | 1989 |
| Stranger on My Land | Maj. Walters | 1988 |
| Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War | Lyndon Johnson | 1987 |
| The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman | Oscar Goldman | 1987 |
| The Stepford Children | Lawrence Danton | 1987 |
| Perry Mason Returns | Ken Braddock | 1985 |
| Kane & Abel | Alan Lloyd | 1985 |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Tom Northcliff | 1985 |
| Danger Bay | Tagard | 1984 |
| Murder, She Wrote | Lew Bracken | 1984 |
| Cover Up | Henry Towler | 1984 |
| Automan | Carl Donovan | 1983 |
| Hardcastle and McCormick | J.J. Norcross | 1983 |
| The A-Team | Dr. A.M. Richter | 1983 |
| Matt Houston | Carl Conrad, Wayne Slocum | 1982 |
| Knight Rider | Dr. Ralph Wesley | 1982 |
| Bring 'Em Back Alive | Douglas MacArthur | 1982 |
| Darkroom | Bill Bellamy | 1981 |
| Simon & Simon | Alfred Klein, Jeffrey Newhall, John Price | 1981 |
| The Fall Guy | Sam Garrick | 1981 |
| Nero Wolfe | Chester Winslow | 1981 |
| Dynasty | Buck Fallmont | 1981 |
| Condominium | Henry Churchbridge | 1980 |
| Dan August: Once Is Never Enough | Chief George Untermeyer | 1980 |
| The French Atlantic Affair | Terrence Crown | 1979 |
| The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo | Eric | 1979 |
| Murder by Natural Causes | George Brubaker | 1979 |
| Pearl | Cmdr. Michael North | 1978 |
| Never Give Up | 1978 | |
| The Love Boat | Dr. Art Akers | 1977 |
| Fantasy Island | Clifton Forbes, Doctor David, Edgar Linton, Richard Martinique | 1977 |
| Charlie's Angels | Sam Knight | 1976 |
| The Bionic Woman | Oscar Goldman | 1976 |
| Dinah! | Self | 1974 |
| Black Eye | Dole | 1974 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | Oscar Goldman | 1974 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping | Oscar Goldman | 1973 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War | Oscar Goldman | 1973 |
| The New Perry Mason | Ray Norman | 1973 |
| Jarrett | Spencer Loomis | 1973 |
| Barnaby Jones | Frank Cassidy | 1973 |
| The Night Strangler | Dr. Richard Malcolm | 1973 |
| Play It As It Lays | Les Goodwin | 1972 |
| Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole | Dr. Ben Cole | 1972 |
| Jigsaw | Douglas Parker | 1972 |
| The Streets of San Francisco | Hoyt Llewellyn | 1972 |
| The Longest Night | Harvey Eaton | 1972 |
| The Honkers | Royce Owens | 1972 |
| The Astronaut | Dr. Wylie | 1972 |
| Cannon | Mr. Gibson, Ross Byron | 1971 |
| Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law | Fred Palmer | 1971 |
| O'Hara, U.S. Treasury | Treasury Agent | 1971 |
| Columbo | Bryce Chadwick | 1971 |
| Longstreet | Daniel Bates | 1971 |
| Doctors' Wives | Dist. Atty. Douglas | 1971 |
| Alias Smith and Jones | James Quirt | 1971 |
| Dan August | Chief George Untermeyer | 1970 |
| Macho Callahan | Officer | 1970 |
| Menace on the Mountain | Maj. Galt | 1970 |
| Along Came a Spider | Dist. Atty. Freiberg / District Attorney Freiberg | 1970 |
| Tora! Tora! Tora! | Captain John Earle / Captain John B. Earle | 1970 |
| Bracken's World | Norton Burns | 1969 |
| The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | Dr. Lensky | 1969 |
| My Friend Tony | Chief Orr | 1969 |
| Mod Squad | Tom Cole | 1968 |
| Land of the Giants | Joe Simmons | 1968 |
| Hawaii Five-O | Eugene Goodman | 1968 |
| Mannix | District Attorney Bartlett | 1967 |
| Ironside | Darren Sanford, Dean Glenville, Rod Ballard, Ted Channing, Walter Conway | 1967 |
| Judd for the Defense | Steve Duer, Thad Crutcher | 1967 |
| Ghostbreakers | Timothy Selfridge | 1967 |
| Cimarron Strip | Captain Bragg | 1967 |
| The Ride to Hangman's Tree | Steven Carlson | 1967 |
| The Invaders | Blake | 1967 |
| Seconds | Dr. Innes | 1966 |
| Mission: Impossible | Judge Wilson Chase | 1966 |
| T.H.E. Cat | Percy Hagan | 1966 |
| The Felony Squad | Gwinn, Charles Douglas, Leonard Barrow | 1966 |
| The Green Hornet | Phil Trager | 1966 |
| The Wild Wild West | Commissioner James Jeffers | 1965 |
| The F.B.I. | Alex Ramsey, Charles Fillmore, Christian Palmer, Clifford Banning, Dan Wheaton, Dr. Latimer, Higgins | 1965 |
| The Big Valley | Hen Matson, Mel Trevor, Nathan Springer, Travers, Warden Garreck | 1965 |
| I Spy | Dr. Paul Loden | 1965 |
| Run for Your Life | Captain Swain | 1965 |
| Kitten with a Whip | Grant | 1964 |
| Karen | Teddy LaFarge | 1964 |
| Daniel Boone | Sergeant Rafferty | 1964 |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Col. Adam Pattner, Senator Steve Bryant | 1964 |
| Slattery's People | Jim Cummings | 1964 |
| 12 O'Clock High | Brig. Gen. Phil Doud | 1964 |
| Seven Days in May | Col. Murdock | 1964 |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | General John Doe | 1963 |
| Redigo | Tom Walker | 1963 |
| The Fugitive | Leonard Taft, George Forster, Chief Barney Vilattic, Lieutenant Sloan, Colonel Lawrence | 1963 |
| The Lieutenant | Lt. Col. Clinton Hiland, Col. Clinton Hiland | 1963 |
| Johnny Cool | Correspondent | 1963 |
| A Gathering of Eagles | Col. Ralph Josten | 1963 |
| The Eleventh Hour | Calvin Hopp | 1962 |
| Combat! | Sergeant Perkins | 1962 |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Eddie Turtin | 1962 |
| The Virginian | Harry Clark | 1962 |
| Bus Stop | D.A. Glenn Wagner | 1961 |
| Target: The Corruptors! | Earl Gilmore | 1961 |
| Dr. Kildare | Dr. Norman Phelps | 1961 |
| Kraft Mystery Theater | Hal Dryden | 1961 |
| The Wackiest Ship in the Army | Lt. Dennis M. Foster / Dennis Foster | 1960 |
| Hong Kong | Roger Hardy | 1960 |
| Checkmate | Victor Sando | 1960 |
| Thriller | Oliver Judson | 1960 |
| Law of the Plainsman | Lee Talent | 1959 |
| Bonanza | Jamison Fillmore | 1959 |
| The Gunfight at Dodge City | Dave Rudabaugh | 1959 |
| Compulsion | Max Steiner | 1959 |
| The Untouchables | Sidney Rogers / Zoran Bresnovitch | 1959 |
| The Rifleman | Duke Jennings, Griff, Harry Chase, Jason Gowdy, Lariat Jones, Tom Birch | 1958 |
| Steve Canyon | Ben Radin | 1958 |
| Wanted: Dead or Alive | Jim Kramer, Tom | 1958 |
| Curse of the Faceless Man | Dr. Paul Mallon | 1958 |
| Frontier Justice | Sheriff John Bates | 1958 |
| The Long, Hot Summer | Alan Stewart | 1958 |
| Merry Andrew | Ugo | 1958 |
| Paths of Glory | Maj. Saint-Auban | 1957 |
| Zorro | Ricardo del Amo | 1957 |
| The Court of Last Resort | Harold Quinn | 1957 |
| Perry Mason | Police Lt. Steve Drumm, Edward Lewis, Jason Foster | 1957 |
| Wagon Train | Matthew Lowry | 1957 |
| The Buster Keaton Story | Tom McAffee | 1957 |
| Three Brave Men | Naval Lt. Bill Horton / Lt. Bill Horton | 1956 |
| Zane Grey Theatre | Adam Stuart, Sheriff John Bates | 1956 |
| Playhouse 90 | Pete | 1956 |
| The Search for Bridey Murphy | Dr. Deering | 1956 |
| A Cry in the Night | Owen Clark | 1956 |
| Forbidden Planet | Chief Quinn / Chief Engineer Quinn | 1956 |
| It's a Dog's Life | George Oakley | 1955 |
| Matinee Theatre | Alec | 1955 |
| The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial | Hayden | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | Maj. Aaron Coltraine, Gregorio, Samuel | 1955 |
| Hit the Deck | Lt. Jackson | 1955 |
| The Millionaire | Rod Matthews | 1955 |
| The Magical World of Disney | Major Galt | 1954 |
| Betrayed | John | 1954 |
| Captain Midnight | Lieutenant Olson | 1954 |
| The Student Prince | Lucas | 1954 |
| Escape from Fort Bravo | Lt. Beecher | 1953 |
| Give a Girl a Break | Burton Bradshaw | 1953 |
| Dream Wife | Henry Malvine | 1953 |
| I Love Melvin | Harry Flack | 1953 |
| The Story of Three Loves | Marcel / Marcel (segment "Equilibrium") | 1953 |
| The Case Against the 20% Federal Admissions Tax on Motion Picture Theatres | 1953 | |
| Fearless Fagan | Capt. Daniels / Capt. Daniels - Company J | 1952 |
| Holiday for Sinners | Father Victor Carducci | 1952 |
| Scaramouche | Philippe de Valmorin / Philippe de Valmorin (Marcus Brutus) | 1952 |
| Death Valley Days | Judge Lander | 1952 |
| Just This Once | Tom Winters | 1952 |
| The Unknown Man | Bob Masen | 1951 |
| Across the Wide Missouri | Dick Richardson / Dick | 1951 |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Hayden | 1951 |
| The People Against O'Hara | Jeff Chapman | 1951 |
| Rich, Young and Pretty | Bob Lennart | 1951 |
| No Questions Asked | Detective Walter O'Bannion | 1951 |
| Go for Broke! | Lieutenant | 1951 |
| Cause for Alarm! | Lonesome Sailor | 1951 |
| Storm Warning | Interne | 1951 |
| Payment on Demand | Jim Boland / Jim | 1951 |
| Grounds for Marriage | Tommy | 1951 |
| The Magnificent Yankee | Reynolds | 1950 |
| A Life of Her Own | Hosiery Man | 1950 |
| Mama Rosa | Mama's son | 1950 |
| The Vanishing Westerner | Deputy Sheriff Jeff Jackson | 1950 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Chorus Member | 1948 |
| The Pearl | 1947 |
Producer Filmography
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