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Anderson Richard Dean
Birth at
23 January 1950
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Richard Anderson is an American film actor. Anderson is originally from Minneapolis and his parents are Jocelyn Rae Carter and Stuart Jay Anderson. The beginning of Richard's acting career was the role of doctor Jeff Webber in the television series General Hospital between 1976 and 1981. In addition, he had the opportunity to play the role of Adam in the TV series “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”.
Richard became famous after the release of the television series "Secret Agent McGyver" broadcast
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Richard Anderson is an American film actor.
Anderson is originally from Minneapolis and his parents are Jocelyn Rae Carter and Stuart Jay Anderson. The beginning of Richard's acting career was the role of doctor Jeff Webber in the television series
General Hospital between 1976 and 1981. In addition, he had the opportunity to play the role of Adam in the TV series “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”.
Richard became famous after the release of the television series
"Secret Agent McGyver" broadcast between 1985 and 1992. The series was incredibly popular throughout the show.
In 1995, Anderson had the chance to play the main role in the humorous television series Legend, consisting of only twelve episodes and telling about a detective author who, against his own will, was forced to portray himself as the hero of his novels.
In the period from 1997 to 2005, Richard played the main role of Colonel Jack O’Neill in the television series “Stargate: SG-1”, which became a continuation of the film “Stargate” with Kurt Russell.
In the sixth season of the series, Richard asked to reduce the participation of his character in the script, because he wanted to devote his time to raising his daughter. His character was gradually removed from the script, and by the end of the eighth season he was no longer a member of the regular cast, preferring to be a guest artist. His character appeared in two episodes of the tenth season of the series, as well as in three episodes of the third season of the series Stargate: Atlantis.
In the fall of 2004, during a dinner timed to coincide with the 57th anniversary of the BBC, the actor was presented with the Air Force Association award for his contribution to the formation of a positive image of the US Air Force as a lead actor and executive producer of the project.
Stargate: SG-1" . During the same dinner, Richard was dubbed an honorary brigadier general.