"Six Million Dollar Man," "Bionic Woman" actor Richard Anderson dies

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Source: WBAY, ABC affiliate in Green Bay, WI

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Anderson, the tall, handsome actor best known for costarring simultaneously in the popular 1970s television shows “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman,” has died at age 91.

Anderson died of natural causes on Thursday, family spokesman Jonathan Taylor told The Associated Press.

“The Six Million Dollar Man” brought a new wave of supernatural heroes to television. Based on the novel “Cyborg” by Martin Caidin, it starred Lee Majors as U.S. astronaut Steve Austin, who is severely injured in a crash. The government saves his life by rebuilding his body with atom-powered artificial limbs and other parts, giving him superhuman strength, speed and other powers.

Anderson played Oscar Goldman, Majors’ boss at the secret government spy agency the astronaut went to work for after becoming a cyborg.


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RIP, Oscar.

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1. HBO is running The Long Hot Summer (1958) with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward,

Orson Welles, Angela Lansbury and Paul Anderson. Just watched it on demand.

William Faulkner story.

Wow.

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2. Here he is

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3. Puts the rising costs of medical care in perspective, doesn't it?

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These days, a six million dollar man is probably a guy in a car wreck with a few broken bones, lacerations, and contusions being treated for about 2 days...



I joke, but also want to say that Richard Anderson's character was a positive persona that got beamed into my house on the airwaves, to be seen on a small B&W television back in the mid-1970's. Rest In Peace,

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