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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Oscar was 91. I feel so ... old
I remember him from several episodes of “Zorro” (1957).
RIP
The best-selling poster in history.
My haiku:
Richard Anderson,
A kind wise soul, R I P,
Goodbye, you sci-fi icon.
Actually, his name was left in the credits after his departure because Raymond Burr insisted on it so that Ray Collins would still be paid per episode.
He was also in a the first made for TV Perry Mason movie in 1985, Perry Mason Returns. He was the killer in the movie.
Oh yeah, either one is fine.
We have “Night Stalker” on DVD and that includes the series and the two TV movies.
I really think they’re so much better than a lot of the stuff on TV these days.
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