Richard Gates

Richard Gates was born on Dec 24, 1947 in USA. Richard Gates's big-screen debut came with The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk directed by Larry Peerce in 1967, strarring Frank Hardy (as Rick Gates). Richard Gates is known for Pleasures directed by Sharron Miller, Joanna Cassidy stars as Lillian Benton and Linda Purl as Eve Harper. The upcoming new tvshow Richard Gates plays is The Popcorn Kid - Season 1 which will be released on Mar 23, 1987.

Rick married Janie Yuguchi, a special education teacher, in Los Angeles on February 27th, 1982. They have two daughters -- Katy, born in April 1986, and Kelsey, born in May 1989. Rick was hospitalized due to an attack of cardiomyopathy in November 1989, and took a year off from work.He resumed acting for a short while, but it had lost it's luster completely. He walked away from the profession to focus on raising his kids in 1992. Rick returned to the stage in 2010, doing "As You Like It" in a local (LA) theatre. He dabbles in scene workshops for fun (with Joan Darling), and acted in a short film with Sundance writer/director Peter Gazdeg in 2016.