John Anderson
Acting
- Born:
- 1922-10-20
- Died:
- 1992-08-07
- Place of birth:
- Clayton, Illinois, USA
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)).
Known For
Filmography
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Bed of Lies
Daddy
Babe Ruth
In Broad Daylight
Follow Your Heart
Deadly Innocents
Quantum Leap
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
Annie McGuire
Eight Men Out
Aaron's Way
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Jake and the Fatman
American Harvest
Scorpion
Heart of the City
Never Too Young to Die
Dream West
I-Man
Matlock
North and South
MacGyver
Murder, She Wrote
Hunter
Sins of the Past
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
The First Time
Voyagers!
Matt Houston
Silver Spoons
Bret Maverick
Zoot Suit
Out of the Blue
Smokey and the Bandit II
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
Hart to Hart
In Search of Historic Jesus
Backstairs at the White House
$weepstake$
The Deerslayer
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
Dallas
The Last Hurrah
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
The Incredible Hulk
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Lou Grant
The Force of Evil
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
Quincy, M.E.
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
Bridger
The Dark Side of Innocence
The Quest
The Quest
Death Among Friends
The Specialist
Bronk
Dead Man on the Run
The Rockford Files
Little House on the Prairie
Petrocelli
The Dove
Manhunter
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Heatwave!
Lincoln: Trial by Fire
Executive Action
The Counsellor
Hitched
Call to Danger
Set This Town on Fire
Molly and Lawless John
The Stepmother
Kung Fu
M*A*S*H
The Bob Newhart Show
Emergency!
The Sixth Sense
Bearcats!
Cannon
Man and Boy
Soldier Blue
Cotton Comes to Harlem
The Andersonville Trial
The Animals
Young Billy Young
The Great Bank Robbery
Hawaii Five-O
Heaven with a Gun
Here Come the Brides
Lancer
5 Card Stud
A Man Called Gannon
Day of the Evil Gun
Mannix
Cimarron Strip
Welcome to Hard Times
A Covenant with Death
The Fortune Cookie
Occasional Wife
The Rat Patrol
Felony Squad
Tarzan
Namu, the Killer Whale
Scalplock
The F.B.I.
The Big Valley
The Legend of Jesse James
The Hallelujah Trail
The Satan Bug
For the Love of Willadean
Kraft Suspense Theatre
My Favorite Martian
The Great Adventure
Redigo
The Fugitive
The Outer Limits
The Lieutenant
Stoney Burke
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Virginian
Sam Benedict
Ride the High Country
Geronimo
Walk on the Wild Side
Ben Casey
Dr. Kildare
87th Precinct
Cain's Hundred
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Harrigan and Son
Peter Loves Mary
Route 66
Stagecoach West
The Westerner
Outlaws
Thriller
The Tall Man
Psycho
The Detectives
Adventures in Paradise
The Rebel
The Twilight Zone
Johnny Ringo
Law of the Plainsman
Laramie
Bonanza
Last Train from Gun Hill
Black Saddle
Rawhide
Bat Masterson
Lawman
Yancy Derringer
The Rifleman
Bronco
Peter Gunn
Steve Canyon
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
Sea Hunt
Trackdown
The Walter Winchell File
Perry Mason
Have Gun, Will Travel
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Panic!
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Lassie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Inside Detective
Rebel Range