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Robert Lansing
Actor
Born June 5, 1928Died October 23, 1994 (66 years)
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Robert Lansing (June 5, 1928 - October 23, 1994) was an American stage, film and television actor.
Born in San Diego, California as Robert Howell Brown, he reportedly took his acting surname from the state capital of Michigan. As a young actor in New York City, he was hired to join a stock company in Michigan but was told he would first have to join Actors Equity Association. Equity would not allow him to join as "Robert Brown" since there was already another actor using that name. Since the stock company was based in Lansing, this became the actor's new surname.
In the 1961–1962 television season, Lansing appeared as Detective Steve Carella on NBC's 87th Precinct series based on the Ed McBain detective novels. His costars were Gena Rowlands, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, and Norman Fell. In 1961, he played the outlaw Frank Dalton in a two-part episode of NBC's The Outlaws with Barton MacLane. On film, Lansing starred in the late-1950s sci-fi film 4D Man (which included a young Patty Duke).
Other notable television roles include portrayals of an alcoholic college professor in ABC's drama Channing, as General George Custer on Chuck Connors's NBC series Branded, as Gil Green in the 1963 episode "Fear Begins at Forty" on the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, in a 1965 episode of I Spy, 1965 Gunsmoke as a bounty hunter, as a parole officer in a 1968 episode (A Time To Love - A Time To Cry) of The Mod Squad and as intergalactic secret agent Gary Seven in a 1968 episode "Assignment: Earth" on Star Trek. He appeared as General Frank Savage on Twelve O'Clock High, as an international secret agent in The Man Who Never Was, as Lt. Jack Curtis on Automan and as Control on The Equalizer. He made a notable appearance on The Twilight Zone episode "The Long Morrow". His final role was that of "Paul Blaisdell" on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.
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Robert Lansing (June 5, 1928 - October 23, 1994) was an American stage, film and television actor.
Born in San Diego, California as Robert Howell Brown, he reportedly took his acting surname from the state capital of Michigan. As a young actor in New York City, he was hired to join a stock company in Michigan but was told he would first have to join Actors Equity Association. Equity would not allow him to join as "Robert Brown" since there was already another actor using that name. Since the stock company was based in Lansing, this became the actor's new surname.
In the 1961–1962 television season, Lansing appeared as Detective Steve Carella on NBC's 87th Precinct series based on the Ed McBain detective novels. His costars were Gena Rowlands, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, and Norman Fell. In 1961, he played the outlaw Frank Dalton in a two-part episode of NBC's The Outlaws with Barton MacLane. On film, Lansing starred in the late-1950s sci-fi film 4D Man (which included a young Patty Duke).
Other notable television roles include portrayals of an alcoholic college professor in ABC's drama Channing, as General George Custer on Chuck Connors's NBC series Branded, as Gil Green in the 1963 episode "Fear Begins at Forty" on the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, in a 1965 episode of I Spy, 1965 Gunsmoke as a bounty hunter, as a parole officer in a 1968 episode (A Time To Love - A Time To Cry) of The Mod Squad and as intergalactic secret agent Gary Seven in a 1968 episode "Assignment: Earth" on Star Trek. He appeared as General Frank Savage on Twelve O'Clock High, as an international secret agent in The Man Who Never Was, as Lt. Jack Curtis on Automan and as Control on The Equalizer. He made a notable appearance on The Twilight Zone episode "The Long Morrow". His final role was that of "Paul Blaisdell" on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.
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Filmography
| 2004 | The Best TV Shows That Never Were · as Gary Seven |
| 1993 | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV Series) · as Paul Blaisdell |
| 1990 | Against the Law (TV Series) · as Coach |
| 1990 | Law & Order (TV Series) · as Coo Peter O'farrell |
| 1989 | Submarine: Steel Boats, Iron Men · as Narrator |
| 1989 | Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman · as Gen. Mcallister |
| 1988 | Monsters (TV Series) |
| 1988 | American Experience (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1988 | After School · as C.a. Thomas |
| 1988 | The Equalizer: The mystery of Manon · as Control |
| 1987 | |
| 1987 | Memories of Manon · as Control |
| 1985 | The Equalizer (TV Series) · as Control |
| 1985 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) (TV Series) · as G. William Howe |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Herb Walsh |
| 1983 | Automan (TV Series) · as Lt. Jack Curtis |
| 1983 | Hotel (TV Series) |
| 1981 | Simon & Simon (TV Series) |
| 1980 | |
| 1980 | S.H.E: Security Hazards Expert · as Owen Hooper |
| 1980 | Island Claws · as Moody |
| 1977 | Empire of the Ants · as Dan Stokely |
| 1977 | Scalpel · as Dr. Phillip Reynolds |
| 1976 | Bittersweet Love · as Howard |
| 1976 | Acapulco Gold · as Carl Solborg |
| 1975 | Crime Club · as Alex Norton |
| 1973 | |
| 1973 | The Evil Touch (TV Series) |
| 1972 | The Rookies (TV Series) |
| 1972 | Black Jack · as Major Reason |
| 1972 | The Astronaut · as John Phillips |
| 1971 | The Grissom Gang · as Dave Fenner |
| 1971 | Great Performances (TV Series) · as Horace Bixby |
| 1970 | The Interns (TV Series) · as Lieutenant |
| 1969 | It Takes All Kinds · as Tony Gunther |
| 1969 | Medical Center (TV Series) · as Eric Crawford |
| 1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) · as David Croft |
| 1968 | Journey to the Unknown (TV Series) |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad (TV Series) |
| 1968 | The Doris Day Show (TV Series) · as Sgt. Bill Winston |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Fred Martin |
| 1967 | Danger Has Two Faces · as Peter Murphy |
| 1967 | Mannix (TV Series) · as George Edward Diamond |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) · as Fred Hickman |
| 1967 | The High Chaparral (TV Series) · as Marshall Virgil Packer |
| 1967 | Cimarron Strip (TV Series) |
| 1967 | The Flying Nun (TV Series) · as Mr. Sanders |
| 1966 | The Monroes (TV Series) |
| 1966 | The Man Who Never Was (TV Series) · as Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright |
| 1966 | Star Trek (TV Series) · as Gary Seven |
| 1966 | Namu, the Killer Whale · as Hank Donner |
| 1966 | An Eye for an Eye · as Bill Talion |
| 1965 | The Loner (TV Series) · as Hibbard |
| 1965 | Branded (TV Series) |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone (TV Series) · as Capt. Robert Ives |
| 1964 | Slattery's People (TV Series) · as Peter Markham |
| 1964 | 12 O'Clock High (TV Series) · as Brigadier General Frank Savage |
| 1963 | Under the Yum Yum Tree · as Dr. Charles Howard |
| 1963 | Temple Houston (TV Series) · as Judge Galen Stanke |
| 1963 | Channing (TV Series) · as Harrison Keith |
| 1963 | A Gathering of Eagles · as Sgt. Banning |
| 1962 | The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) · as Gil Green |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as George Calhoun |
| 1962 | Saints and Sinners (TV Series) · as Don Colley |
| 1962 | Sam Benedict (TV Series) |
| 1961 | 87th Precinct (TV Series) · as Detective Steve Carella |
| 1961 | The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) · as Mooney |
| 1960 | The Law and Mr. Jones (TV Series) · as Burt |
| 1960 | Insight (TV Series) · as Elliot Winters |
| 1960 | Michael Shayne (TV Series) · as Jack Howard |
| 1960 | Outlaws (TV Series) |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) · as Barry Sironde |
| 1960 | Thriller (TV Series) · as Lieutenant Brian Rome |
| 1960 | The Tall Man (TV Series) |
| 1960 | The Pusher · as Steve Carella |
| 1959 | 4D Man · as Dr. Scott Nelson |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Douglas Stansfield |
| 1959 | Deadline (TV Series) · as William Key |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | One Step Beyond (TV Series) · as Jared Corning |
| 1958 | The Donna Reed Show (TV Series) |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Judge Arthur Forbes |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Luke Frazer |
| 1954 | Camera Three (TV Series) · as Jewel |
| 1953 | The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) · as Jay Smallwood |
| 1953 | You Are There (TV Series) · as William Jennings Bryan, U.s. Secretary Of State |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as James Wilson |
| 1952 | CBS Television Workshop (TV Series) · as Ted |
| 1950 | The Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1949 | The Big Story (TV Series) · as Giles Norman |
| 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre (TV Series) · as Phil Dunlop |