John Anderson
Actor

John Anderson

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Known For Acting
Known Credits 1
Birthday October 20, 1922 (103 years old)
Place of Birth Clayton, Illinois, USA
Also Known As John R. Anderson
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Biography

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 (181)

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone 1994
Bed of Lies 1992
In Broad Daylight 1991
Daddy 1991
Babe Ruth 1991
Follow Your Heart 1990
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal 1989
Deadly Innocents 1989
Quantum Leap 1989
Eight Men Out 1988
Aaron's Way 1988
Annie McGuire 1988
American Harvest 1987
Star Trek: The Next Generation 1987
Jake and the Fatman 1987
I-Man 1986
Never Too Young to Die 1986
Scorpion 1986
Matlock 1986
Heart of the City 1986
Dream West 1986
MacGyver 1985
North and South 1985
Sins of the Past 1984
Hunter 1984
Murder, She Wrote 1984
Scarecrow and Mrs. King 1983
Missing Children: A Mother's Story 1982
The First Time 1982
Silver Spoons 1982
Voyagers! 1982
Matt Houston 1982
Zoot Suit 1981
Out of the Blue 1981
Bret Maverick 1981
Smokey and the Bandit II 1980
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe 1980
In Search of Historic Jesus 1979
Hart to Hart 1979
Backstairs at the White House 1979
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo 1979
$weepstake$ 1979
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival 1978
The Deerslayer 1978
Dallas 1978
The Lincoln Conspiracy 1977
The Force of Evil 1977
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion 1977
The Last Hurrah 1977
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected 1977
The Incredible Hulk 1977
Lou Grant 1977
The Quest 1976
The Dark Side of Innocence 1976
Bridger 1976
The Quest 1976
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II 1976
Quincy, M.E. 1976
The Specialist 1975
Dead Man on the Run 1975
Death Among Friends 1975
Bronk 1975
Smile Jenny, You're Dead 1974
Manhunter 1974
Heatwave! 1974
The Dove 1974
Lincoln: Trial by Fire 1974
Little House on the Prairie 1974
The Rockford Files 1974
Petrocelli 1974
Executive Action 1973
Set This Town on Fire 1973
Counselor at Crime 1973
Call to Danger 1973
Hitched 1973
The Stepmother 1972
Molly and Lawless John 1972
M*A*S*H 1972
Kung Fu 1972
The Bob Newhart Show 1972
The Sixth Sense 1972
Emergency! 1972
Man and Boy 1971
Cannon 1971
Bearcats! 1971
Soldier Blue 1970
The Animals 1970
The Andersonville Trial 1970
Cotton Comes to Harlem 1970
Heaven with a Gun 1969
Young Billy Young 1969
The Great Bank Robbery 1969
5 Card Stud 1968
A Man Called Gannon 1968
Day of the Evil Gun 1968
Hawaii Five-O 1968
Lancer 1968
Here Come the Brides 1968
Welcome to Hard Times 1967
A Covenant with Death 1967
Cimarron Strip 1967
Mannix 1967
Scalplock 1966
Namu, the Killer Whale 1966
The Fortune Cookie 1966
Tarzan 1966
Occasional Wife 1966
The Rat Patrol 1966
Felony Squad 1966
The Satan Bug 1965
The Hallelujah Trail 1965
The F.B.I. 1965
The Big Valley 1965
The Legend of Jesse James 1965
For the Love of Willadean 1964
The Great Adventure 1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre 1963
Redigo 1963
The Fugitive 1963
The Outer Limits 1963
My Favorite Martian 1963
The Lieutenant 1963
Ride the High Country 1962
Geronimo 1962
Walk on the Wild Side 1962
The Virginian 1962
Stoney Burke 1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962
Sam Benedict 1962
Cain's Hundred 1961
87th Precinct 1961
Ben Casey 1961
Dr. Kildare 1961
Psycho 1960
The Wackiest Ship in the Army 1960
Route 66 1960
The Tall Man 1960
Outlaws 1960
Thriller 1960
Harrigan and Son 1960
Stagecoach West 1960
The Westerner 1960
Peter Loves Mary 1960
Last Train from Gun Hill 1959
The Twilight Zone 1959
Rawhide 1959
Adventures in Paradise 1959
Black Saddle 1959
The Rebel 1959
Laramie 1959
Law of the Plainsman 1959
The Detectives 1959
Johnny Ringo 1959
Bonanza 1959
The True Story of Lynn Stuart 1958
Sea Hunt 1958
Yancy Derringer 1958
Peter Gunn 1958
Bronco 1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive 1958
The Rifleman 1958
Bat Masterson 1958
Lawman 1958
Steve Canyon 1958
Trackdown 1957
Perry Mason 1957
Have Gun, Will Travel 1957
Richard Diamond, Private Detective 1957
The Walter Winchell File 1957
Panic! 1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre 1956
Cheyenne 1955
Gunsmoke 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp 1955
Lassie 1954
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951
Inside Detective 1950
Rebel Range
The American Adventure