READ MORE: Kate Garraway: David Beckham and Matt Hancock offer their supportHe also co-starred in the 1978 NBC miniseries Little Women.
On the big screen, he appeared in Airplane II: The Sequel, Happy Hour, The White Buffalo and Arnold Schwarzenegger first major pic Stay Hungry.
Richard and his wife Jean, were meant to star alongside each other in an upcoming movie Breaking News In Yuba County, that was scheduled to film this summer.
In 2007, they co-starred together in theatre piece, Love Letters. The pair met on the set of 1986's Designing Women, in which he had a recurring role as the love interest of one of the leads played by Annie Potts.
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