Biography: Richard Van Vleet is a Marine Corps veteran, private pilot, actor, teacher, director, both stage and screen, screen writer, and novelists. He has appeared in over 72 night time television series and movies and was nominated twice for an Emmy for his work on All My Children where he spent over 13 years and appeared several years on the Guiding Light. “Judge me Not”, a movie he wrote, directed and starred in, won a Best Picture Award. He has two beautiful daughters, Shannon and Heather, two grandchildren, Gretta and Gage, and three great-grandchildren Sloane, Sutton and Charles. Richard lives on a sailboat in California.