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Richard Lawson (b. Rickey Lee Lawson on March 7, 1947 in Loma Linda, California, USA) is an African-American actor who has starred in movies and on television.He is best known in the science fiction community as Ryan in the 1982 hit movie Poltergeist
and in the 1983 mini series V as Dr. Ben Taylor.

His first feature film was in the classic 1971 movie Dirty Harry
, his other well known rolls was in the 1979 movie The Main Event, the 1984 drama movie Streets of Fire
as Officer Ed Price. Richard's most recent movie is Guess Who in 2005.

Lawson's first on-going starring role in a television series was in Australian drama Hotel Story in 1977. That series was cancelled before the first episode had gone to air. He later starred 1980s series Chicago Story, took the on-going role of Nick Kimball in night time soap opera Dynasty from 1986-1987, appeared in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd as Det. Nathaniel Hawthorne from 1989-1991, and was in the day time soap opera All My Children as Lucas Barnes from 1992-1994.

Richard has made many guest appearances on tv shows including Kojak, Get Christie Love!
, Sister, Sister, The District, and The Division.

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