Richard Anderson

Biography

Richard Norman Anderson (born August 8, 1926) was an American film and television actor. Among his best-known roles is his portrayal of Oscar Goldman, the boss of Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman television series 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) andBionic Ever After? (1994).

Known for

The Six Million Dollar Man

18 January 1974

Murder, She Wrote

30 September 1984

Acting roles

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
—	Das 6 Millionen Dollar Girl	Oscar Goldman
2021	Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!	Self
2018	Rottentail	Thomas
2010	The Frankenstein Syndrome	Marquez
2010	Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger	Himself
2006	Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet	Self
2003	Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films	Husband (archive footage)
1997	Extreme Ghostbusters
1996	In the Lake of the Woods	Claude Rasmussen
1994	The Glass Shield	Watch Cmmdr. Clarence Massey
1994	Bionic Ever After?	Oscar Goldman
1993	Gettysburg	Maj. Gen. George G. Meade
1993	Kung Fu: The Legend Continues	Narrator / Captain Bartlett Stiles
1992	The Player	Richard Anderson
1990	Lucky Chances	Mr. Duke
1989	Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman	Oscar Goldman
1988	Stranger on My Land	Maj. Walters
1987	The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman	Oscar Goldman
1987	The Stepford Children	Lawrence Danton
1987	Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War	Lyndon Johnson
1985	The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Tom Northcliff
1985	Kane & Abel	Alan Lloyd
1985	Perry Mason Returns	Ken Braddock
1984	Murder, She Wrote	Lew Bracken
1984	Cover Up	Henry Towler
1984	Cover Up	Henry Towler
1983	The A-Team	Dr. A.M. Richter
1983	Automan
1983	Hardcastle and McCormick
1983	Whiz Kids
1982	Knight Rider	Dr. Ralph Wesley
1982	Matt Houston
1982	Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix	Dr. Ralph Wesley
1982	Bring 'Em Back Alive
1981	The Fall Guy
1981	Dynasty	Buck Fallmont
1981	Simon & Simon
1981	Darkroom
1981	Nero Wolfe
1980	Condominium	Henry Churchbridge
1980	Dan August: Once Is Never Enough	Chief George Untermeyer
1980	Dan August: The Jealousy Factor	Chief
1979	Murder by Natural Causes	George Brubaker
1979	The French Atlantic Affair	Terrence Crown
1978	Never Give Up	US green beret officer
1978	Pearl	Cmdr. Michael North
1978	The Immigrants	Thomas Seldon
1977	The Love Boat	Art Akers
1976	The Bionic Woman	Oscar Goldman
1976	Charlie's Angels	Sam Knight
1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Oscar Goldman
1974	Black Eye	Dole
1973	The Night Strangler	Dr. Richard Malcolm
1973	Barnaby Jones	Frank Cassidy
1973	The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War	Oscar Goldman
1973	The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping	Oscar Goldman
1973	The New Perry Mason
1973	Jarrett	Spencer Loomis
1973	Partners in Crime	Roger Goldsmith
1972	The Streets of San Francisco
1972	Play It as It Lays	Les Goodwin
1972	The Astronaut	Dr. Wylie
1972	Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole	Dr. Ben Cole
1972	The Honkers	Royce Owens
1972	The Longest Night	Harvey Eaton
1972	Jigsaw
1972	Delphi Bureau
1971	Columbo	Bryce Chadwick
1971	Cannon
1971	Alias Smith and Jones
1971	Macho Callahan	Officer
1971	Doctors' Wives	D.A. Douglas
1971	Longstreet
1971	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law	Fred Palmer
1971	Dead Men Tell No Tales	Tom Austin
1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Captain John B. Earle
1970	Dan August	Chief George Untermeyer
1970	Along Came a Spider	District Attorney Freiberg
1970	Menace on the Mountain	Maj. Galt
1969	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969	Bracken's World
1969	My Friend Tony
1968	Hawaii Five-O	Eugene Goodman
1968	Land of the Giants	Joe Simmons
1968	The Mod Squad
1967	Ironside
1967	Ironside	Dean Glenville
1967	Ironside	Rod Ballard
1967	Ironside	Walter Conway
1967	The Invaders	Blake
1967	Mannix
1967	The Ride to Hangman's Tree	Carlson
1967	Cimarron Strip
1967	The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk	Fenton Hardy
1967	Judd for the Defense
1967	Ghostbreakers	Timothy Selfridge
1966	Seconds	Dr. Innes
1966	Mission: Impossible	Judge Wilson Chase
1966	The Green Hornet	Phil Trager
1966	Felony Squad
1966	T.H.E. Cat	Percy Hagan
1965	The Wild Wild West
1965	The Big Valley	Travers
1965	The Big Valley	Nathan Springer
1965	The Big Valley	Warden Garreck
1965	The Big Valley	Mel Trevor
1965	The Big Valley	Hen Matson
1965	The F.B.I.	Christian Palmer
1965	The F.B.I.	Alex Ramsey
1965	The F.B.I.	Charles Fillmore
1965	The F.B.I.	Dr. Latimer
1965	The F.B.I.	Clifford Banning
1965	The F.B.I.	Dan Wheaton
1965	The F.B.I.	Higgins
1965	Run for Your Life	Captain Swain
1964	Seven Days in May	Col. Murdock
1964	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Senator Steve Bryant
1964	Daniel Boone	Sergeant Rafferty
1964	Kitten with a Whip	Grant
1964	12 O'Clock High
1964	12 O'Clock High	Brig. Gen. Phil Doud
1964	Karen
1964	Slattery's People
1963	The Fugitive	Chief Barney Vilattic
1963	The Fugitive	George Forster
1963	The Fugitive	Colonel Lawrence
1963	The Fugitive	Lt. Sloan
1963	The Fugitive	Leonard Taft
1963	A Gathering of Eagles	Col. Ralph Josten
1963	Johnny Cool	Correspondent
1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	General John Doe
1963	The Lieutenant	Col. Clinton Hiland
1963	The Lieutenant	Lt. Col. Clinton Hiland
1963	Redigo
1962	Combat!	Sgt. Perkins
1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Eddie Turtin
1962	The Virginian	Harry Clark
1962	The Eleventh Hour
1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Norman Phelps
1961	Target: The Corruptors!
1961	Bus Stop
1960	The Wackiest Ship in the Army	Dennis Foster
1960	Thriller	Oliver Judson
1960	Checkmate
1960	Hong Kong
1959	Bonanza	Jamison Fillmore
1959	Compulsion	Max Steiner
1959	The Untouchables	Sidney Rogers / Zoran Bresnovitch
1959	The Gunfight at Dodge City	Dave Rudabaugh
1959	Law of the Plainsman	Lee Talent
1958	The Long, Hot Summer	Alan Stewart
1958	The Rifleman
1958	The Rifleman	Jason Gowdy
1958	The Rifleman	Griff
1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Tom
1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Jim Kramer
1958	Curse of the Faceless Man	Dr. Paul Mallon
1957	Paths of Glory	Maj. Saint-Auban
1957	Zorro
1957	Perry Mason	Edward Lewis
1957	Perry Mason	Lt. Steve Drumm
1957	Perry Mason	Jason Foster
1957	The Buster Keaton Story	Tom McAffee
1957	The Court of Last Resort
1956	Forbidden Planet	Chief Engineer Quinn
1956	A Cry in the Night	Owen Clark
1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Sheriff John Bates
1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	David Manning
1956	The Search for Bridey Murphy	Dr. Deering
1956	Three Brave Men	Lt. Bill Horton
1955	Gunsmoke	Gregorio
1955	Gunsmoke	Maj. Aaron Coltraine
1955	Hit the Deck	Lt. Jackson
1955	Matinee Theater
1955	The Millionaire	Rod Matthews
1955	It's a Dog's Life	George Oakley
1954	Betrayed	John (uncredited)
1954	The Student Prince	Lucas
1954	Captain Midnight
1953	Escape from Fort Bravo	Lieutenant Beecher
1953	I Love Melvin	Harry Flack
1953	Dream Wife	Henry Malvine
1953	The Story of Three Loves	Marcel
1953	Give a Girl a Break	Burton Bradshaw
1953	The Case Against the 20% Federal Admissions Tax on Motion Picture Theatres	narrator
1952	Scaramouche	Philippe de Valmorin (Marcus Brutus)
1952	Fearless Fagan	Capt. Daniels
1952	Holiday for Sinners	Father Victor Carducci
1952	Just This Once	Tom Winters
1951	Storm Warning	Interne (uncredited)
1951	Cause for Alarm!	Lonesome Sailor
1951	Across the Wide Missouri	Dick
1951	The People Against O'Hara	Jeff Chapman
1951	Go for Broke!	Lieutenant
1951	Payment on Demand	Jim Boland
1951	No Questions Asked	Detective Walter O'Bannion
1951	The Unknown Man	Bob Masen
1951	Rich, Young and Pretty	Bob Lennart
1951	Grounds for Marriage	Tommy
1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Hayden
1950	The Magnificent Yankee	Reynolds
1950	The Vanishing Westerner	Deputy Sheriff Jeff Jackson
1950	Mama Rosa

Credits

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
2016	Mega Hammerhead	Writer
1994	Bionic Ever After?	Co-Executive Producer
1989	Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman	Co-Producer