Richard Biggs

Richard James Biggs II, noted for his portrayals in Days of Our Lives and Babylon 5, was born on March 18, 1960, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. 

From an age as tender as thirteen, he was diagnosed with hearing problems, and was partially deaf in one ear, entirely deaf in the other. After pursuing theatre at the University of Southern California on a fellowship, Biggs taught at a high school in Los Angeles for a short span of time before securing his first significant television stint as Dr Marcus Hunter on Days of Our Lives. Ever since then, he made extensive use of his reputation to generate funds for the Aliso Academy, a deaf children’s exclusive school in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. 

He played Dr Stephen Franklin on the blockbuster science fiction television series Babylon 5 from 1994 to 1998, and reiterated the act in the ultimate chapter of the spin-off programme Crusade. Following Babylon 5, he went on to star in productions like Any Day Now Click to look into! >> Read More... and Strong Medicine, as well as the serial opera Guiding Light, where he portrayed Clayton Boudreaux. Some of Biggs’ theatrical credits consist of The Tempest Click to look into! >> Read More... , Cymbeline, and The Taming of the Shrew.

He tied knots with Lori Gebers in 1998. 

Biggs was a mainstay on the television series Strong Medicine at the moment of his demise, and his character was wiped out in an off-screen car accident shortly after. On Tremors: The Series, he featured a local scientist on a regular basis. We Interrupt This Program, a short film was Biggs’ ultimate cinematic presentation, which he performed alongside his Babylon 5 co-star Bruce Boxleitner Bruce Boxleitner is an American television and fil >> Read More... . It was released as a sister group to the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead-on DVD. His final television character was that of an FBI officer in a 2004 episode of the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh titled “The Gary Grill,” which was dedicated to his memory. Throughout his entire career, he only earned one award – the Soap Opera Digest Award for Supporting Actor. 

At 44 years of age, on May 22, 2004, Richard Biggs died from difficulties ascribed to an aortic dissection at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Centre.