# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-sanders
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:28:36.845Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-sanders"
name: "Richard Sanders"
slug: "richard-sanders"
description: "Richard Sanders is a retired American actor and screenwriter. He played quirky news anchorman Les Nessman on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982). Most of his acting career has been on television."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nU00A4ujVjDK1kmakvI4F46yUr4.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1940-08-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.03
  momentum:             2.37220447284345
  historical:           5.972193333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761687/"
    handle:    "nm0761687"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%86%D8%B1%DA%88_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88%D8%B1%D8%B2_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "رچرڈ سینڈرز (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sanders_(akteur)"
    title: "Richard Sanders (akteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "ريتشارد ساندرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%95%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "ڕیچارد ساندەرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sanders_(actor)"
    title: "Richard Sanders (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EC%B2%98%EB%93%9C_%EC%83%8C%EB%8D%94%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "리처드 샌더스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7328879"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1212505"
    title: "Richard Sanders"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump