Richard Dean Anderson

As of December, 2004, it is unknown how limited his role will be for the show's 9th (and possibly final) season. He has also stated that he is a vegan. In Season 8, he opted to have a reduced role in the Stargate SG-1 series due to his reduced availability. In 2003, Grandy was named co-host of The WMAL Morning News, a light current-events chat show on WMAL-AM in Washington, D.C. Although he has never married he has a daughter (Wylie Quinn Annarose) by his one-time partner Apryl Prose. Grandy later served as president and CEO of Goodwill Industries from 1995-2000, became a political commentator on National Public Radio, and served as a Visiting Professor teaching a course on non-profit organizations at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs. He currently stars in the series Stargate SG-1 as General (formerly Colonel) Jack O'Neill, based on the movie Stargate starring Kurt Russell. In 1994, he entered the race for Governor of Iowa against incumbent Terry Branstad; he lost the election by 4%.

Jeff Webber from 1976 to 1981), but came to fame with the hit television series MacGyver. During his four terms in Congress, he served on a variety of committees, including the House Ways and Means, Agriculture, Standards of Official Conduct, and Education and the Workforce. Richard Dean Anderson (born January 23, 1950 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American actor who started his acting career in soap opera (appearing on General Hospital as Dr. Although he tried to distance himself from his acting career, he told People magazine, "If there were no Gopher, there would be no Fred Grandy for Congress.". Grandy, who campaigned as a Republican, won the election in 1986 by 3,000 votes. He also served as a speechwriter for Congressman Wiley Mayne (R-Iowa).

Prior to college, he was the roommate of David Eisenhower (grandson of President Eisenhower) at Phillips Exeter Academy and later was best man at Eisenhower's wedding to Julie Nixon. He played the dimwitted Burl "Gopher" Smith for nine years on The Love Boat, but his political interests preceded his acting career. Grandy received his bachelor's degree in English from Harvard University in 1970, and is fluent in both French and Arabic. television series, The Love Boat, before his election in 1986 to the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa.

Fred Grandy (born June 29, 1948) was an actor on the U.S.