Richard Gilliland

Veteran actor Richard Gilliland died last week at the age of 71. Born in 1950 in Fort Worth, Texas. Gilliland got his career start at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago. While there, he took on the role of Jesus in Godspell opposite Joe Mantegna’s Judas. After arriving in Los Angeles, the actor landed…

American actor Richard Gilliland, who played JD Shackleford on the television series Designing Women, died on March 18, 2021. (1986-1992). Texas’s Fort Worth is where Gilliland was born. He graduated from Shawnee Mission South High School in Overland Park, Kansas, in 1968. He took part in both plays and musicals. In 1987, he was hitched…