Trivia

Is one of the very few actors to play the same regular character on two different series simultaneously. From 1976-78 he played Oscar Goldman on both The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) and The Bionic Woman (1976). Leo G. Carroll, Martin E. Brooks, David Hasselhoff and Fred Thompson are among the other actors to have done this.

In The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), his character worked for a government department called the OSI. In real life, he did an orientation video for a real government department called the OSI, which was very different from the fictional one.

Influenced to become an actor after seeing Gary Cooper on the screen, his initial screen test for MGM was from Cooper's The Cowboy and the Lady (1938).

When The Bionic Woman (1976) moved to NBC for the 1977-78 season, Anderson became the first actor to play the same role on two shows running on separate networks.

Studied at the Actors Laboratory in Los Angeles, which later became the Actors Studio in New York.

He has three daughters, Ashley (b. circa 1962), Brooke (b. circa 1964), and Deva (b. circa 1966).

His second wife, Katharine Thalberg, moved to Aspen, CO, after her divorce from Anderson. She opened a well-known bookstore, Explore Booksellers, which is still in business. Thalberg passed away in Aspen in January 2006 from cancer at age 70.

Buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

His second wife was the daughter of Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg.

He was the son of Olga Ida (Lurie) and Harry/Henry Anderson. His parents were born in New York, and all of his grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants.

In July 2005 he appeared as a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, NC, along with Ty Hardin, Henry Darrow, Donna Douglas, Elena Verdugo, Jo Morrow, Ed Nelson and Lorna Gray.

Wore a hairpiece for his role as Oscar Goldman in the Bionic franchise. His real hair, as it had copiously thinned out, can be seen in The Case of the Paper Bullets (1964). Ix also toupee-less in Runner in the Dark (1965).