Serious mourning in the show "actor Richard Gilliland dies"
Serious mourning in the show: Richard Gilland , a prolific actor who in his nearly 50-year career has included Designing Women, Thirtysomething and series regular roles in Just Our Luck, Operation Petticoat and Heartland, is dead. He was 71 years old. His family said it is died on March 18 in Los Angeles after a short, unspecified illness.
Born on 23 January 1950 in Fort Worth, Texas, Gilliland appeared on dozens of television shows, ranging from The Streets of San Francisco, Medical Center, a recurring role on McMillan & Wife and Marcus Welby, MD in the 70s to The Waltons, Fantasy Island and The Love Boat to St. Elsewhere, Night Court, Matlock, Judging Amy, Becker, Crossing Jordan, 24, CSI, Criminal Minds, Dexter and Murder, She Wrote. She also starred in the 1978 NBC miniseries Little Women.
Serious Mourning in the Show: Richard Gilliland's Career
He was also a regular in three of the comedies of the ABC in the 70s and 80s: Play a WWII Navy officer alongside John Astin in Operation Petticoat (1977-79), a television reporter who finds a genius in a bottle (TK Carter) in 1983's Just Our Luck and the role of the similar character's son-in-law to Archie Bunker by Brian Keith in the Heartland (1989).
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It was during his recurring period of five seasons in Designing Women from CBS that Gilliland met his future wife, series star Jean Smart. He played a Major League Baseball talent scout who was Mary Jo's (Annie Potts) boyfriend during her first five seasons from 1986-91. During this time he also renewed XNUMX-year-old ABC as Jeffrey Milgrom, who leaves his second wife for Ellyn (Polly Draper) only to leave her for his first wife.