Richard Sanders (born August 23, 1940)[1] is a retired American actor and screenwriter.
He played quirky news anchorman Les Nessman on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982).
[citation needed] After graduating from college, Sanders studied Shakespearean theatre in England on a Fulbright Scholarship, and served a stint with the Peace Corps in the states of Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
He has guest-appeared on other television shows, including Lou Grant, Kojak, The Rockford Files, Alice, Newhart, Murder, She Wrote, Designing Women, and Married... with Children, and has also acted in the mini-series Roots: The Next Generations, the animated series Inhumanoids, the horror film Lovers Lane, and the Robert De Niro/Cuba Gooding Jr. film Men of Honor.
In 1993, he starred in the computer game Day of the Tentacle as the voice of Bernard Bernoulli.