Richard Anderson

'Richard Anderson' (qv) 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)_ (qv)) 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)_ (qv) 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)_ (qv); 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 _The Fugitive (1963)_ (qv) he plays Richard Kimble's ('David Janssen' (qv)) brother-in-law, and is briefly suspected of being the real killer of Kimble's wife. A regular on _The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)_ (qv), Anderson has more recently produced the TV-movie reprises of that series.::Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>