Look Inside Richard Dean Anderson’s Red-Cedar Residence in Malibu (2024)

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Where does Richard Dean Anderson reside? ›

Personal life. Anderson divides his time among Vancouver, Los Angeles and northern Minnesota. A self-described "winter sports fanatic", he loves hockey and skiing.

Richard Dean Anderson Biography and Trivia

Richard Dean Anderson broke both his arms in two separate accidents and was forced to retire at the age of 16, while playing high school hockey.

Richard Dean Anderson Obituary

Richard married his sweetheart Opal Bessent in Durant, Oklahoma on July 8, 1967.

Question: Whatever happened to Richard Dean Anderson, star of MacGyver and Stargate? He's still alive. He no longer seems to be acting, however. His most recent credit was for a single episode of a now-cancelled series, six years ago.

Personal life. James is married with two children and lives in Sussex.

Wylie Quinn Anderson

Richard Dean Anderson / Daughter

Thirty years after he rose to fame as a secret agent who abhorred guns, Richard Dean Anderson has described US gun lobbyists as "despicable".

Shares last name with Richard Dean Anderson, and played the grandfather of MacGyver (1985). Despite this, there is no relation. He guest starred in episodes of 3 different TV westerns as the former commander of a Civil War prison camp who was now trying to hide under an assumed name to escape his past.

Anderson used to do all of his own stunts but not any more. “I won't be jumping off of buildings again,” he said laughing. “My back has been compressed and operated on, my feet have been surgically cut up and I have a knee that's just going wacky. So I do my own driving, and I ski and skate.

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Now settled in Malibu, he helped design and build his own house - which featured in Architectural Digest – and is a single dad to his 16-year-old daughter Wylie Anderson.

Who are Richard Dean Anderson's parents? ›

His father, Stuart Anderson, was a teacher at a local high school and his mother, Jocelyn, was an artist who was talented in both sculpting and painting. He and his three younger brothers (Jeffrey, Thomas, and James) grew up in Roseville, a suburb of Minneapolis.

In seasons 1 and 2, MacGyver was portrayed living in a waterfront apartment in Venice Beach. In season 3, he moved onto a houseboat at an unspecified location, though implied still to be in Los Angeles (the actual shooting took place at Coal Harbour, near downtown Vancouver).

Wylie Quinn Anderson

Richard Dean Anderson / Daughter

Why did Richard Dean Anderson/Jack O'Neill leave the show? Anderson left the show after Season 8 wrapped to spend more time with his daughter, and O'Neill left the SGC after he was promoted the rank of Major General, and (presumably) to head "Homeworld Security" department.