John Anderson
John Robert Anderson (October 20, 1922 – August 7, 1992) A tall, sinewy, austere-looking character actor with silver hair, rugged features and a distinctive voice, John Robert Anderson appeared in hundreds of films and television episodes. Immensely versatile, he was at his best submerging himself in the role of historical figures (he impersonated Abraham Lincoln three times and twice baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, men whom he strongly resembled). He was a familiar presence in westerns and science-fiction serials, usually as upstanding, dignified and generally benign citizens (a rare exception was his Ebonite interrogator in The Outer Limits (1963) episode "Nightmare"). He had a high opinion of Rod Serling and was proud to be featured in four episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959), most memorably as the tuxedo-clad angel Gabriel in "A Passage for Trumpet" (doing for Jack Klugman what Henry Travers did for James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)).
181 acting credits
Acting · 181
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
Perry Mason
1957
Dallas
1978
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Mannix
1967
Bonanza
1959
MacGyver
1985
The Fugitive
1963
M*A*S*H
1972
Little House on the Prairie
1974
Lassie
1954
The Rifleman
1958
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Quantum Leap
1989
The Rockford Files
1974
Quincy, M.E.
1976
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Virginian
1962
Hunter
1984
Dr. Kildare
1961
Matlock
1986
Emergency!
1972
The F.B.I.
1965
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
Cheyenne
1955
Hart to Hart
1979
Ben Casey
1961
The Incredible Hulk
1977
The Big Valley
1965
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Jake and the Fatman
1987
Lawman
1958
Rawhide
1959
Route 66
1960
The Outer Limits
1963
Cannon
1971
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Thriller
1960
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
Lou Grant
1977
Gunsmoke
1955
Bat Masterson
1958
North and South
1985
Sea Hunt
1958
Psycho
1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Matt Houston
1982
The Bob Newhart Show
1972
Peter Gunn
1958
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
My Favorite Martian
1963
The Detectives
1959
The Rebel
1959
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
Tarzan
1966
Lancer
1968
Felony Squad
1966
Laramie
1959
Silver Spoons
1982
Black Saddle
1959
Trackdown
1957
Bronco
1958
The Tall Man
1960
Cain's Hundred
1961
Outlaws
1960
Petrocelli
1974
Johnny Ringo
1959
Law of the Plainsman
1959
87th Precinct
1961
Stagecoach West
1960
The Great Adventure
1963
Sam Benedict
1962
Yancy Derringer
1958
Stoney Burke
1962
The Lieutenant
1963
Cimarron Strip
1967
Voyagers!
1982
Bronk
1975
The Rat Patrol
1966
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
1979
The Legend of Jesse James
1965
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
1976
The Sixth Sense
1972
The Westerner
1960
Bret Maverick
1981
Steve Canyon
1958
Panic!
1957
Here Come the Brides
1968
Occasional Wife
1966
$weepstake$
1979
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980
Heart of the City
1986
The Walter Winchell File
1957
Harrigan and Son
1960
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Peter Loves Mary
1960
Aaron's Way
1988
Redigo
1963
The Quest
1976
Backstairs at the White House
1979
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980
Soldier Blue
1970
Bearcats!
1971
Last Train from Gun Hill
1959
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
Annie McGuire
1988
Eight Men Out
1988
The Satan Bug
1965
Ride the High Country
1962
Heaven with a Gun
1969
Dream West
1986
The Hallelujah Trail
1965
Kung Fu
1972
5 Card Stud
1968
Hitched
1973
Bed of Lies
1992
Walk on the Wild Side
1962
The Fortune Cookie
1966
Out of the Blue
1981
Zoot Suit
1981
Young Billy Young
1969
Never Too Young to Die
1986
Geronimo
1962
Cotton Comes to Harlem
1970
Executive Action
1973
Sins of the Past
1984
Bridger
1976
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
1982
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
1994
Heatwave!
1974
A Covenant with Death
1967
I-Man
1986
Inside Detective
1950
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
1989
Daddy
1991
Day of the Evil Gun
1968
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960
American Harvest
1987
The Great Bank Robbery
1969
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
1977
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
1974
Manhunter
1974
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
1978
In Search of Historic Jesus
1979
Scalplock
1966
In Broad Daylight
1991
Namu, the Killer Whale
1966
The Quest
1976
Molly and Lawless John
1972
The Stepmother
1972
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
Call to Danger
1973
Follow Your Heart
1990
The Last Hurrah
1977
The Dark Side of Innocence
1976
The Animals
1970
The Lincoln Conspiracy
1977
The Deerslayer
1978
The Andersonville Trial
1970
The Dove
1974
For the Love of Willadean
1964
The Specialist
1975
Babe Ruth
1991
Death Among Friends
1975
Set This Town on Fire
1973
Counselor at Crime
1973
The First Time
1982
Deadly Innocents
1989
A Man Called Gannon
1968
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
1958
Scorpion
1986
Dead Man on the Run
1975
Man and Boy
1971
The Force of Evil
1977
Lincoln: Trial by Fire
1974
The American Adventure
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