Sean Richards
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| Sean Richards | |||||||||||||||
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| Sunset Beach character | |||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Randy Spelling | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1997–99 | ||||||||||||||
| First appearance | January 10, 1997 | ||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | December 31, 1999 | ||||||||||||||
| Created by | Robert Guza, Jr. | ||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Gary Tomlin, Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent | ||||||||||||||
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Sean Richards is a fictional character from the US NBC soap opera Sunset Beach, played by Randy Spelling.
In 1997, it was announced that Randy Spelling had been cast as Sean. Spelling is the son of Sunset Beach creator Aaron Spelling.[1] Sean was billed as a "screwed up rich kid, recently expelled from private school."[2]
Sean was featured in a high-profile storyline in which an earthquake and tsunami occur in Sunset Beach. The storyline was created in a bid to gain ratings.[3] Spelling's character becomes trapped under water with on-screen love interest Emily Davis (Cristi Harris). Spelling and Harris were required to perform stunts sequences for the scenes, though, Spelling said were fun to film. On-screen characters were flung into the sea from a capsized boat. While Spelling was dropped down an eighty degree incline wall into a water tank. Then had to tread water, until he and Harris dove down wearing formal clothes, into the safety of an air shaft. Spelling said that they found the experience "really disorienting".[3]