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Alias Name(s): Richard Saunders
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: 8-23-1940
Birth Name: Richard Kinard Sanders
Alias Name(s): Richard Saunders
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: 8-23-1940
Birth Name: Richard Kinard Sanders
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1940, Sanders' career started as a young lad in 1950. He is a writer, producer and character actor on stage and screen who is best known for the television role he played in the late 70's and early 80's as the dedicated and nerdy news director for WKRP radio in Cincinnati. After studying acting in the U.S. and abroad, Sanders served in the Peace Corp for a...
Most Recent Appearance
Top 10 Holiday Moments
Sunday 11 December 2005 on TV Land
The Top 10 Holiday Moments
Richard attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
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Studying along side Richard at Carnegie was fellow character actor Rene Auberjonois.
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When the WKRP crew would shoot outside the studio, it got so hot that Richard could be found lying underneath a bench inbetween scenes he was needed for.
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Richard has served as President of Blood Star, Inc. in Woodinville, WA.
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For the bulk of his Peace Corp duty in the late 1960s Richard served with the State Theatre of Paraiba, Brazil directing actors and stage movement.
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Richard: (regarding the character Les Nessman) He was just a stickler for the rules. Everybody else was kind of laid back — certainly Tim [Reid] and Howard [Hesseman], you know, Venus Flytrap and Johnny Fever. He was like the straight arrow. He couldn't believe the station had become rock and roll from what it had been, and he always thought his job was the most important job at the station anyway, because he was in charge of news, sports, weather, traffic and farm reports
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Richard: Les Nessman was a perfectionist who didn't know how to relate to people at all. He was a very serious guy, kind of a throwback
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Other Appearances
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Inhumanoids
Dr. Derek Bright |
The New WKRP in Cincinnati
Les Nessman |
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WKRP in Cincinnati
Les Nessman |
You Can't Take It With You
Paul Sycamore |
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227
Nightmare on 227 Dean |
ABC Weekend Specials
The Joke's on Mr. Little Mr. Little |
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ALF
Pennsylvania 6-5000 Hogarth |
Alice
Alice's Blind Date Arnold |
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Barnaby Jones
The Wife Beater Joe Keller |
Batman Beyond
Spellbound Mr. Deakins |
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Nothing In Common
Gone Fishing Fred Dooley |
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WKRP in Cincinnati
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This series is based on the toy collection of Hasbro. It fallow the other successful toy collection and their series, such as Transformers, G.I. Joe and Visionaries. Special about this show is... more The New WKRP in Cincinnati
The New WKRP in Cincinnati was a short lived series about the next gang at Cincinnati's WKRP. It ran for only two seasons. more
WKRP in CincinnatiWKRP in Cincinnati , an MTM production, was created by Hugh Wilson, who had previously written scripts for MTM's The Bob Newhart Show and served as a producer on the short-lived MTM production... more You Can't Take It With You
coming soon... more
