Posted on 08/31/2017 4:42:59 PM PDT by SMGFan
Richard Anderson, the Emmy-nominated actor who played Oscar Goldman in both hit 1970s series “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman,” died August 31. He was 91.
Anderson’s credits spanned more than 180 film and TV roles over six decades after starting his Hollywood career as a messenger at MGM. But he will be best remembered for playing Goldman, the handler of the bionic duo played by Lee Majors and Lyndsay Wagner. Combined, the series ran for 150 episodes and several TV movies — two of which Anderson produced.
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Same here, although his face is familiar. Still, it looks like he had a very full career as a character actor.
He played a Captain.
They not only kept him in the credits, they kept him on salary.
Gail Patrick Jackson, producer of the show did most of the casting with Erle Stanley Gardner’s approval. She was the one who wanted Ray Collins and got him. She said later that Ray was already in his 60’s when the show started and in reality probably would have been long retired as a policeman but he was what the show needed.
Didn't watch it, just heard the promos.
I remember him from the movie “Murder by Natural Causes”. It is still one of my favorite movies.
RIP. Good actor.
Every time I rip a pair of pants, especially when I rip out the crotch...”I’ve got a blowout, damper 3”
That was one hell of a scene!
Great actor who will be missed.
Waiting for the Hollywood remake “The Six Million Dollar Trans”
He played in Westerns, too. I remember him in the Rifleman.
Was in classic movie “FORBIDDEN PLANET”
Also in TORA, TORA, TORA
Tragg was always fun to watch on PM.
He spent his whole agency’s budget on high technology but apparently there was only enough money for an inept agent that couldn’t use the single issue revolver.
For the time, 6M and BW were good shows.
RIP Oscar Goldman.
“I want confirmation” starts at 3:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=463gjCaXd0c
“You want confirmation”? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHFoR6KqzAY
“Forbidden Planet” had a huge number of future stars or at least future familiar faces.
I was only 10 when it came out but I still am in love with Altaira. Didn’t every professor in those 50s sci fi movies have a beautiful daughter?
They didnt have the six million dollars.
Yeah I only remember Majors. Wasn’t he married to Loni Anderson?
Ray Collins started out on Broadway and was a very respected stage actor who was always in demand. Then he joined Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater Group. Welles took Collins with him to Hollywood and the rest is history.
I always liked his Lt. Arthur Tragg character, I can’t remember a time though anyone that called him Arthur on the series.
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