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Richard Anderson, left, and Lee Majors in an episode of “The Six Million Dollar Man.”
ABC; thumbnail, Fred Prouser/Reuters, 2012
Richard Anderson
Died on August 31, 2017 at age 91
Mr. Anderson was a character actor known for playing sturdy authority figures in films and on television, most notably the government agent who doled out perilous missions on two popular series, “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman.”
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.