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Richard Sanders (born August 23, 1940 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American character actor. He is best known for playing the quirky news anchorman Les Nessman on the television sitcom, WKRP in Cincinnati.

Sanders was enrolled in the Fine Arts Department at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie Mellon University) as an acting major from 1958 to 1962. There he was a classmate of Rene Auberjonois and Aubrey Wilson, amongst others.

After graduation, Sanders studied Shakespearean theatre in England on a Fulbright Scholarship, and served a stint with the Peace Corps in Brazil.

In addition to being an actor, Sanders is a scriptwriter, having written, amongst other things, several episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati.

Sanders' last noted television appearance was in a 1990 episode of Coach entitled "The Break Up".

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