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John Anderson
Actor
Died August 7, 1992 (69 years)
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
| 1992 | Bed of Lies · as Price Daniel, Sr. |
| 1991 | Daddy · as George Watson |
| 1989 | Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal · as George Dutton |
| 1989 | Deadly Innocents · as Gus |
| 1989 | Quantum Leap (TV Series) · as Pat Knight |
| 1988 | Eight Men Out · as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis |
| 1987 | Square One TV (TV Series) · as Roark |
| 1987 | Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series) · as Kevin Uxbridge |
| 1987 | Jake and the Fatman (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1986 | Never Too Young to Die · as Arliss |
| 1986 | I-Man · as Holbrook |
| 1986 | Scorpion · as Noel G. Koch |
| 1986 | Perfect Strangers (TV Series) · as Grandpa Beaumont 'Buzz' Appleton |
| 1986 | Matlock (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1986 | Starman (TV Series) · as Rayfield |
| 1985 | MacGyver (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1985 | North and South (TV Series) · as William Hazard |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Andrew Dixon |
| 1984 | Riptide (1984) (TV Series) · as Walter Truman |
| 1984 | Hunter (TV Series) · as Winston Taggert |
| 1983 | Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1982 | Silver Spoons (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1982 | Voyagers! (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1981 | Zoot Suit · as Judge F.W. Charles |
| 1981 | Bret Maverick (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1981 | The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) · as General Gerald Stocker |
| 1981 | The Fall Guy (TV Series) · as Al Barton |
| 1980 | Out of the Blue · as T.V. Interviewer |
| 1980 | Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1980 | Sanford (TV Series) · as Judge |
| 1980 | Smokey and the Bandit II · as Governor |
| 1979 | In Search of Historic Jesus · as Caiaphas |
| 1979 | Hart to Hart (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1978 | Dallas (TV Series) · as Dr. Herbert Styles |
| 1977 | The Lincoln Conspiracy · as Abraham Lincoln |
| 1977 | The Last Hurrah · as Amos Force |
| 1977 | Lou Grant (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1977 | The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1977 | ABC Weekend Special (TV Series) · as Curtis George |
| 1976 | The Quest · as Army Officer |
| 1976 | America at the Movies · as Elder Hammond |
| 1976 | The Quest (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1976 | Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (TV Series) · as Scotty |
| 1975 | The Specialist · as Pike Smith |
| 1975 | The Jeffersons (TV Series) · as Mr. Claymore |
| 1974 | Manhunter · as Aaron Denver |
| 1974 | The Dove · as Mike Turk |
| 1974 | Petrocelli (TV Series) · as Joshua Forbes |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files (TV Series) · as Gerald A. O'Malley |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1973 | Executive Action · as Halliday |
| 1973 | Counselor at Crime · as Don Vito Albanese |
| 1973 | Brock's Last Case · as Joe Cuspis |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as John Albright |
| 1972 | The Stepmother · as Inspector Darnezi |
| 1972 | Molly and Lawless John · as Sheriff Marvin Parker |
| 1972 | M*A*S*H (TV Series) · as General Collins |
| 1972 | Kung Fu (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1972 | The Bob Newhart Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1972 | Emergency! (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1971 | Man and Boy · as Stretch |
| 1971 | McMillan and Wife (TV Series) · as Sandy King |
| 1971 | Cannon (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1970 | Cotton Comes to Harlem · as Capt. Bryce |
| 1970 | The Animals · as Sheriff Allan Pierce |
| 1970 | The Andersonville Trial · as Ambrose Spencer |
| 1970 | Soldier Blue · as Col. Iverson |
| 1969 | Heaven with a Gun · as Ase Beck |
| 1969 | Young Billy Young · as Boone |
| 1969 | The Great Bank Robbery · as Mayor Kincaid |
| 1969 | Night Gallery (TV Series) · as Sheriff |
| 1968 | 5 Card Stud · as Marshal Dana |
| 1968 | Day of the Evil Gun · as Captain Jefferson Addis |
| 1968 | Massacre Harbor · as Maj. Indrus |
| 1968 | Here Come the Brides (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) · as Brig. General Earl Rigney |
| 1967 | Welcome to Hard Times · as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple |
| 1967 | A Covenant with Death · as Dietrich |
| 1967 | Cimarron Strip (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1967 | Mannix (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1966 | The Fortune Cookie · as Abraham Lincoln |
| 1966 | Namu, the Killer Whale · as Joe Clausen |
| 1966 | Scalplock · as Standish |
| 1966 | Tarzan (1966) (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1966 | Occasional Wife (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1966 | The Iron Horse (TV Series) · as Burton Standish |
| 1966 | The Rat Patrol (TV Series) · as Major Indrus |
| 1965 | The Hallelujah Trail · as Sgt. Buell |
| 1965 | The Satan Bug · as Agent Reagan |
| 1965 | The Big Valley (TV Series) · as Matt Bentell |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Adam MacDonald |
| 1964 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) · as Dr. Janus |
| 1963 | My Favorite Martian (TV Series) · as Capt. Farrow |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits (TV Series) · as Ebonite Interrogator |
| 1963 | The Lieutenant (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1963 | The Fugitive (TV Series) · as Justin Briggs |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) · as Rankin |
| 1962 | Ride the High Country · as Elder Hammond |
| 1962 | Geronimo · as Jeremiah Burns |
| 1962 | Walk on the Wild Side · as Preacher |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) · as Adam |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Sam McLain |
| 1960 | Psycho · as California Charlie |
| 1960 | The Wackiest Ship in the Army · as Sailor |
| 1960 | The Westerner (TV Series) · as Leth Ritchie |
| 1960 | Thriller (TV Series) · as Jacob Grant |
| 1960 | Stagecoach West (TV Series) · as Cole Dawson |
| 1960 | Dante (TV Series) · as Harrigan |
| 1960 | Route 66 (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1960 | The Tall Man (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | Last Train from Gun Hill · as Salesman |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) · as Maj. Cantwell |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | The Detectives (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | The Rebel (TV Series) · as Ezra Taber |
| 1959 | Laramie (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Capt. 'Skipper' Farver |
| 1959 | The Untouchables (TV Series) · as George McPhail |
| 1958 | Cimarron City (TV Series) · as Sheriff Jim Martin |
| 1958 | Yancy Derringer (TV Series) · as Wayne Raven |
| 1958 | Bronco (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | The Rifleman (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV Series) · as Deputy Sheriff Fix |
| 1958 | Lawman (TV Series) · as Hassayampa Edwards |
| 1958 | Bat Masterson (TV Series) · as Major Liam Mars |
| 1958 | Peter Gunn (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as George Andrews |
| 1957 | Tombstone Territory (TV Series) · as Allen Danbury |
| 1957 | Trackdown (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) · as Charley Mason |
| 1957 | The Californians (TV Series) · as Reed Bullard |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as Roy Kelsey |
| 1955 | Target Zero · as Undetermined Role |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Les McConnell |
| 1955 | The Phil Silvers Show (TV Series) · as Film Theatre Orderly |
| 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1955 | Cheyenne (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Nicholson |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) · as Farmer Wills |
| 1954 | Lassie (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as George Lynch |
| 1952 | The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (TV Series) · as Cafe Owner |
| 1952 | Gang Busters (TV Series) · as actor |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America (TV Series) · as actor |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Amos Force |