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)).

Filmography (182 Appearances)

Rebel Range

TBA

The American Adventure

TBA

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

1994

24 Hour Psycho

1993

Bed of Lies

1992

Daddy

1991

Babe Ruth

1991

In Broad Daylight

1991

Follow Your Heart

1990

Deadly Innocents

1989

Quantum Leap

1989

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal

1989

Annie McGuire

1988

Eight Men Out

1988

Aaron's Way

1988

Star Trek: The Next Generation

1987

Jake and the Fatman

1987

American Harvest

1987

Scorpion

1986

Heart of the City

1986

Never Too Young to Die

1986

Dream West

1986

I-Man

1986

Matlock

1986

North and South

1985

MacGyver

1985

Murder, She Wrote

1984

Hunter

1984

Sins of the Past

1984

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

1983

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

1982

The First Time

1982

Voyagers!

1982

Matt Houston

1982

Silver Spoons

1982

Bret Maverick

1981

Zoot Suit

1981

Out of the Blue

1981

Smokey and the Bandit II

1980

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

1980

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

1979

Hart to Hart

1979

In Search of Historic Jesus

1979

Backstairs at the White House

1979

$weepstake$

1979

The Deerslayer

1978

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

1978

Dallas

1978

The Last Hurrah

1977

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

1977

The Incredible Hulk

1977

The Lincoln Conspiracy

1977

Lou Grant

1977

The Force of Evil

1977

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

1977

Quincy, M.E.

1976

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

1976

Bridger

1976

The Dark Side of Innocence

1976

The Quest

1976

The Quest

1976

Death Among Friends

1975

The Specialist

1975

Bronk

1975

Dead Man on the Run

1975

The Rockford Files

1974

Little House on the Prairie

1974

Petrocelli

1974

The Dove

1974

Manhunter

1974

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

1974

Heatwave!

1974

Lincoln: Trial by Fire

1974

Executive Action

1973

Counselor at Crime

1973

Hitched

1973

Call to Danger

1973

Set This Town on Fire

1973

Molly and Lawless John

1972

The Stepmother

1972

Kung Fu

1972

M*A*S*H

1972

The Bob Newhart Show

1972

Emergency!

1972

The Sixth Sense

1972

Bearcats!

1971

Cannon

1971

Man and Boy

1971

Soldier Blue

1970

Cotton Comes to Harlem

1970

The Andersonville Trial

1970

The Animals

1970

Young Billy Young

1969

The Great Bank Robbery

1969

Heaven with a Gun

1969

Here Come the Brides

1968

Lancer

1968

Hawaii Five-O

1968

5 Card Stud

1968

A Man Called Gannon

1968

Day of the Evil Gun

1968

Mannix

1967

Cimarron Strip

1967

Welcome to Hard Times

1967

A Covenant with Death

1967

The Fortune Cookie

1966

Occasional Wife

1966

Felony Squad

1966

The Rat Patrol

1966

Tarzan

1966

Namu, the Killer Whale

1966

Scalplock

1966

The F.B.I.

1965

The Big Valley

1965

The Legend of Jesse James

1965

The Hallelujah Trail

1965

The Satan Bug

1965

For the Love of Willadean

1964

Kraft Suspense Theatre

1963

My Favorite Martian

1963

The Great Adventure

1963

Redigo

1963

The Fugitive

1963

The Outer Limits

1963

The Lieutenant

1963

Stoney Burke

1962

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962

The Virginian

1962

Sam Benedict

1962

Ride the High Country

1962

Geronimo

1962

Walk on the Wild Side

1962

Ben Casey

1961

Dr. Kildare

1961

87th Precinct

1961

Cain's Hundred

1961

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

1960

Harrigan and Son

1960

Peter Loves Mary

1960

Route 66

1960

Stagecoach West

1960

The Westerner

1960

Outlaws

1960

Thriller

1960

The Tall Man

1960

Psycho

1960

The Detectives

1959

Adventures in Paradise

1959

The Rebel

1959

Johnny Ringo

1959

The Twilight Zone

1959

Law of the Plainsman

1959

Laramie

1959

Bonanza

1959

Last Train from Gun Hill

1959

Black Saddle

1959

Rawhide

1959

Bat Masterson

1958

Lawman

1958

Yancy Derringer

1958

The Rifleman

1958

Bronco

1958

Peter Gunn

1958

Steve Canyon

1958

Wanted: Dead or Alive

1958

The True Story of Lynn Stuart

1958

Sea Hunt

1958

Trackdown

1957

The Walter Winchell File

1957

Perry Mason

1957

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

1957

Panic!

1957

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

Cheyenne

1955

Gunsmoke

1955

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

1955

Lassie

1954

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

1951 Debut

Inside Detective

1950
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