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Richard Dean Anderson
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Introduction

• - Presentation
• His childhood
• His career
• Stargate SG-1

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Presentation

• He was born on 23 January 1950 in Minneapolis
  (USA) in the state of Minnesota, so he is 62
  years old. Minneapolis is a big city in the North
  of America with about 370.000 inhabitants. He
  lived in Minneapolis up to the age of 17. He is
  the eldest of a family of 4 boys.
• His father, Stuart Anderson was an English and
  drama teacher in a High School, he was also a
  jazz bassist.
• His mother, Jocelyn, was a talented painter and
  sculptress .

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His childhood

• Richard loves sports, especially ice-hockey.
• Like a lot of boys of Minnesota, Richard dreamt
  of becoming a professionnal hockey player.
• But at 16 years old, he broke his two arms in 2
  different accidents. That put an end to his dream
  becoming a professional player.
• Richard Dean Anderson loves adventure,
  exploration, ... At 17 years old he traveled on
  bike from his home to the East cost, crossing
  Canada to Alaska. He cycled 5641 miles (9 078
  km).

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His career

• He settled in Los Angeles where he worked as a
  street artist (as a mimic and juggler), he sang
  in a cabaret, he also worked for Marineland where
  he wrote, produced and played in shows.
• After that he played in theatres, he sang and
  played the guitar in a group Ricky Dean and
  Dante with his friend Carl Dante.
• In 1985, Richard signed up to play Mac Gyver on
  the ABC channel. He played Mac Gyver for 7 years.
  He played a clever and an adventure hero.

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Career continuation

• After that he made few films such as In the Eyes
  of a Stranger, Through the Eyes of a Killer in
  1992 and in 1994 Beyond Betrayal.
• He played in another serie Stargate SG-1, he was
  the main actor (colonel Jack Oneill). Its a
  science fiction series with aliens a lot of
  galaxies. It was like Stars Wars where they could
  travel to lot of galaxies. This new series began
  in Febuary 1997 in Vancouver and finished in the
  summer of 2007.

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Stargate SG-1
Christopher Judge, Amanda Tapping, Richard Dean
Anderson and Michael Shanks form the SG-1
team. Christopher Judge (Tealc) is a Jaffa,in
other words an alien, Amanda Tapping (capitain
Samantha Carter) is an astrophysicist and an
expert in star doors, Richard Dean Anderson
(Colonel Jack ONeill) manage the SG-1 team and
Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson) is an expert in
ancient history.
Christopher Judge, Amanda Tapping, Richard Dean
Anderson and Michael Shanks