Richard Sanders

ActorWriter Aug 23 (age 85) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA 1948–2005 (57 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Biography

Richard Kinard Sanders is a retired American actor and screenwriter. He played quirky news anchorman Les Nessman on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.

Known For

Film

Men of Honor

Donny Moor Bartender

Film

WKRP in Cincinnati

Les Nessman

Film

Valley Girl

Drivers' Ed Teacher

Film

The Nude Bomb

German Delegate

Film

Inhumanoids

8.1 1986

Film

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace

Chester Lackberry

Film

Neon City

Dickie Devine

Film

ALF

Hogarth

Filmography

Acting (54)

Movies (20)

Sly Dog

2005

as Joe Reeves

Men of Honor

2000

as Donny Moor Bartender

7.5

Lovers Lane

2000

as Dr. Jack Grefe

3.9

Simon & Simon: In Trouble Again

1995

as Dr. Budwig

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

Neon City

as Dickie Devine

The Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places

1989

as Dr. Dark

2.0

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace

1988

as Chester Lackberry

7.1

Valley Girl

1983

as Drivers' Ed Teacher

The Invisible Woman

as Orville

Found Money

as Robbins

The Nude Bomb

1980

as German Delegate

5.3

Trouble in High Timber Country

1980

as Lester

Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker

as Mr. Fogarty

Ruby and Oswald

as Agent Kelley

Keefer

as Bemmel

Bud and Lou

as Doctor

Good Against Evil

as The Doctor

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

1977

as Travis

5.5

Lincoln: Trial by Fire

1974

as Minister Adams

Television (34)

Rose Red

2002

as Mr. Stanton

6.8

Batman Beyond

1999

as Mr. Deakins (voice)

8.2

Unhappily Ever After

1995

as Mr. Peabody

7.1

The New WKRP in Cincinnati

1991

as Les Nessman

7.0

Gravedale High

1990

as Ben Franklin (voice)

6.0

Coach

1989

as Warren Graustark

6.7

Married... with Children

as Mr. Conner

Nothing In Common

as Dooley

ALF

as Hogarth

Designing Women

Inhumanoids

Blacke's Magic

Sidekicks

Growing Pains

as Luther

Berrenger's

as Frank Chapman

Murder, She Wrote

as Arnold Megrim

Night Court

as Clark Edwards

Who's the Boss?

Charles in Charge

as Professor Smalley

Goodnight, Beantown

Newhart

as Cecil Breech

It Takes Two

Simon & Simon

Solid Gold

as Self

Knots Landing

as Harry Nold

Ike

as Correspondent

Fantasy Island

as Mr. Bandwell

WKRP in Cincinnati

as Les Nessman

Rafferty

Alice

The Rockford Files

as Samuel Romney

Kojak

as Drunk

McCloud

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948

as Prosecuting Attorney

6.3

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Found Money

1983

Writer