RIP Richard Folmer

 

Shreveport theater icon, actor and teacher Richard Folmer dead at age 79

Shreveport Times
By Meredith G. White
January 11, 2022

Richard Sloan Folmer, a beloved staple in the Shreveport arts community, died on Tuesday, Jan. 11 according to the Shreveport Little Theatre's Facebook page.

Folmer co-founded The Company Repertory Theatre and served as its artistic director. He also served as the drama teacher at Caddo Magnet High School, the theatre director at Emmett Hook Center Theatre and was the artistic director at the East Bank Theatre for the Bossier Arts Council.

He was a well-known actor, appearing in a variety of notable stage plays, television shows and films, including "Walker, Texas Ranger," "Murder in the Heartland," and "Straw Dogs."

His cause of death has not been released.

Folmer is preceded in death by his son Sloan Folmer and survived by his wife, Ginger Folmer.

 

FOLMER, Richard (Richard Sloan Folmer)

Born: 1942, Homer, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 1/11/2022, Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.A.

 

Richard Folmer’s westerns – actor:

North and South: Book 3, Heaven and Hell (TV) – 1994 (agent)

Walker, Texas Ranger (TV) – 1995, 1996, 1997 (coin exchange manager, Benny Salvino,Carmine Furillo, Commissioner Mark Simpson)

Longmire (TV) – 2013 (Gerry Solomon)