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Obituary: Actor Richard Anderson, 91, best known for his television roles in shows like The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, and Perry Mason, has died of natural causes:

The actor, who stood 6-feet-4, had begun his career in 1949 with a small role as a wounded soldier in "12 O'Clock High." Soon after, his comedy scenes in a TV series called "Lights, Camera, Action!" drew the attention of MGM, which offered him a screen test and a contract.

He had decided to try acting after watching Gary Cooper movies, and at the screen test he performed a scene from Cooper's "The Cowboy and the Lady."

At MGM he played secondary roles in such movies as "The Magnificent Yankee," ''Across the Wide Missouri," ''Scaramouche," ''The Story of Three Loves," ''The Student Prince," ''Hit the Deck" and "Forbidden Planet."

Anderson was an extremely busy actor playing in The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman simultaneously.

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