Richard Sanders

Acting

Richard Sanders

Born 1940-08-23 · Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

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

Acting credits

Men of Honor poster
7.5

Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story. Their relationship starts out on the rocks, but fate ultimately conspires to bring the men together into a setting of mutual respect, triumph and honor.

Men of Honor

2000

Valley Girl poster
6.0

Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.

Valley Girl

1983

The Nude Bomb poster
5.3

When KAOS develops a bomb that can dissolve all clothing, Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil the evil plot.

The Nude Bomb

1980

Good Against Evil poster
4.8

Dack Rambo and Elyssa Davalos star as sweethearts Andy Stuart and Jessica Gordon. The course of true love is messed up when Satan claims Jessica as his own personal property. Desperately, Andy turns to a pair of priests, Fathers Kemschler and Wheatley, for spiritual guidance, not to mention a bit of brute force in purging poor Jessica of her demons.

Good Against Evil

1977

Lovers Lane poster
4.0

A man with a hook for a hand escapes from a mental institution to go after the children of his previous victims.

Lovers Lane

2000

No artwork available
10.0

A day in the life of the stagnant suburban couple Bob and Joy as they attempt to deal with their overbearing neighbor Joe, each in their own unique way. A front yard scuffle sets into motion a play of paranoia and suspicion that ends up putting a dark spin on the notion of a happy accident. Turning from a comedy to a thriller/suspense

Sly Dog

2005

The Invisible Woman poster
7.5

In a research lab, a scientist's pet chimpanzee mixes up an invisibility formula. A young woman accidentally drinks the solution and becomes invisible.

The Invisible Woman

1983

Neon City poster
5.0

"Mad Max" clone set in the not-too-distant future about a group of people trying to escape to a safe haven called Neon City after a solar disaster that has decimated the Earth.

Neon City

1991

Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker poster
6.6

A rebellious 17-year-old girl ignores parental advice and joins her friends as a beach-bound regular on the local hitchhiking circuit, being picked up, ultimately, by a homicidal maniac.

Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker

1979

Ruby and Oswald poster
8.0

The most accurate portrait ever made of the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the subsequent assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Ruby and Oswald

1978

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace poster
7.1

Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence. Mason steps in to defend the man.

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace

1988

Bud and Lou poster
5.5

An inaccuracy-riddled behind-the-scenes drama about the stormy partnership of the famed comedy team that came out of burlesque to conquer radio, movies and television.

Bud and Lou

1978

Trouble in High Timber Country poster
7.0

A proud patriarch battles union organizers and a powerful conglomerate threatening the family-owned lumber and mining operation which he runs with his three sons, his daughter and his nephew in this pilot film to "The Yeagers" TV series that actually ended months before it aired.

Trouble in High Timber Country

1980

The Beans of Egypt, Maine poster
6.0

The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than any daytime television soap opera; especially Beal Bean, and especially Beal Bean shirtless. When Reuben Bean is sent to prison for resisting arrest for out-of-season deer hunting, Beal takes up with Reuben's woman Roberta. He also has a child by Earlene, with a triangle of sex complicated by poverty.

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

1994

Found Money poster
9.0

Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.

Found Money

1983

Batman Beyond: School Days and Spellbound poster
6.0

As Terry takes up the mantle of the Dark Knight, he finds the pressure of High School just as demanding.Terry confronts the evil of the hypnotic Spellbinder.

Batman Beyond: School Days and Spellbound

2004

The Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places poster
2.0

Henry Crawford is tricked into job swapping by an old friend with an evil plan.

The Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places

1989

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn poster
5.5

In this sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Alexander's story is told in both the past and the present. Alexander's parents send him away from home for being too sensitive and not helping enough on their farm. He goes to Los Angeles in hopes of going to art school, but when he can't find a job as a minor, he turns to prostitution. After being arrested, he wants to head to Arizona to marry Dawn, but he falls into a lucrative job/relationship with a gay football star.

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

1977

Simon & Simon: In Trouble Again poster
8.0

En route to delivering an expensive yacht, Rick stops off in Seattle to visit A.J., who works there as an attorney. However, their reunion is disrupted and their investigative skills called into service when the yacht is hijacked--with mom on board.

Simon & Simon: In Trouble Again

1995

Lincoln: Trial by Fire poster
NR

Cliff Robertson narrates this dramatization focuses on the little-known life-and-death struggle of power between President Lincoln and his general in command of the Army of the Potomac, George McClellan, and the events leading to the Emancipation Proclamation.

Lincoln: Trial by Fire

1974

Keefer poster
8.0

An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.

Keefer

1978

Behind the camera