John Anderson
Actor
Born October 20, 1922 in Clayton, Illinois, USA
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
Rebel Range
Fisk Madden
The American Adventure
Mark Twain / Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice)
John, 316
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
Bed of Lies
Price Daniel, Sr.
Daddy
George Watson
Babe Ruth
Judge Landis
In Broad Daylight
Wes Westerman
Follow Your Heart
Josh Lowe
Deadly Innocents
Gus
Quantum Leap
Pat Knight
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
George Dutton
Eight Men Out
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Kevin Uxbridge
Jake and the Fatman
Ace Thompson
American Harvest
Judge Meriweather
Scorpion
Noel G. Koch
Heart of the City
Warren
Never Too Young to Die
Arliss
Dream West
Brig. Gen. Brooke
I-Man
Holbrook
Matlock
Sam Chandler
North and South
William Hazard
MacGyver
Harry Jackson
Murder, She Wrote
Andrew Dixon
Hunter
Winston Taggert
Sins of the Past
Rev. Donald Randolph
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Stanley Willard
The First Time
Paul Cooper
Voyagers!
Matt Houston
Silver Spoons
Captain Stark
Bret Maverick
General Frye
Zoot Suit
Judge F.W. Charles
Out of the Blue
T.V. Interviewer
Smokey and the Bandit II
Governor
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
Col. Clayborn
Hart to Hart
In Search of Historic Jesus
Caiaphas
Backstairs at the White House
Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Deerslayer
Hutter
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
Patrick Breen
Dallas
Dr. Herbert Styles
The Last Hurrah
Amos Force
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Alexander Majors
The Incredible Hulk
Mike Calahan
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Abraham Lincoln
Lou Grant
Russell Grainger
The Force of Evil
Sheriff John Carrington
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
Floyd Carrington
Quincy, M.E.
Justin DeWilde
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
Scotty
Bridger
President Andrew Jackson
The Dark Side of Innocence
Stephen Hancock
The Quest
Army Officer
The Quest
Death Among Friends
Capt. Lewis
The Specialist
Pike Smith
Bronk
Colonel Hecker
Dead Man on the Run
Jason Monroe
The Rockford Files
Gerald A. O'Malley
Little House on the Prairie
Amos Pike
Petrocelli
Joshua Forbes
The Dove
Mike Turk
Manhunter
Aaron Denver
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Col. John Lockport
Heatwave!
Toler
Lincoln: Trial by Fire
President Lincoln
Executive Action
Halliday
Counselor at Crime
Don Vito Albanese
Hitched
Jomer Cruett
Call to Danger
Edward McClure
Set This Town on Fire
Henry Kealey
Molly and Lawless John
Sheriff Marvin Parker
The Stepmother
Inspector Darnezi
Kung Fu
Jack Youngblood
M*A*S*H
General Collins
The Bob Newhart Show
Mr. Charlie Colton
Emergency!
Captain Bob Roberts
The Sixth Sense
Bearcats!
Judge Juan O'Brien
Cannon
Man and Boy
Stretch
Soldier Blue
Col. Iverson
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Capt. Bryce
The Andersonville Trial
Ambrose Spencer
The Animals
Sheriff Allan Pierce
Young Billy Young
Boone
The Great Bank Robbery
Mayor Kincaid
Heaven with a Gun
Ase Beck
Here Come the Brides
Lancer
Hawaii Five-O
Brig. General Earl Rigney
5 Card Stud
Marshal Dana
A Man Called Gannon
Capper
Day of the Evil Gun
Captain Jefferson Addis
Mannix
George Blake
Cimarron Strip
Welcome to Hard Times
Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
A Covenant with Death
Dietrich
The Fortune Cookie
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Occasional Wife
The Rat Patrol
Major Indrus
Felony Squad
Lt. Mike Reineck
Tarzan
Namu, the Killer Whale
Joe Clausen
Scalplock
Standish
The F.B.I.
Adam MacDonald
The Big Valley
Matt Bentell
The Legend of Jesse James
Moss Canby
The Hallelujah Trail
Sgt. Buell
The Satan Bug
Agent Reagan
The Guide
For the Love of Willadean
Farmer Wills
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Rankin
My Favorite Martian
Capt. Farrow
The Great Adventure
Colonel Knowlton
Redigo
The Fugitive
Justin Briggs
The Outer Limits
Ebonite Interrogator
The Lieutenant
Joe Hammond
Stoney Burke
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Luke Hunter
The Virginian
Major Cass
Sam Benedict
James Bradley
Ride the High Country
Elder Hammond
Geronimo
Jeremiah Burns
Walk on the Wild Side
Preacher
Ben Casey
Dr. Kildare
Vernon Hackett
87th Precinct
Cain's Hundred
Kenneth Drake
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Sailor (uncredited)
Harrigan and Son
Earl
Route 66
Stagecoach West
Cole Dawson
The Westerner
Leth Ritchie
Outlaws
Thriller
Jacob Grant
The Tall Man
Psycho
California Charlie
The Detectives
Adventures in Paradise
Benson
The Rebel
Ezra Taber
The Twilight Zone
Capt. 'Skipper' Farver
Johnny Ringo
Cartwright
Law of the Plainsman
Clyde Santee
Laramie
Bonanza
Sam Masters
Last Train from Gun Hill
Salesman
Black Saddle
Clyde Wicker
Rawhide
Captain James Rankin
Bat Masterson
Major Liam Mars
Lawman
Hassayampa Edwards
Yancy Derringer
Wayne Raven
The Rifleman
Bronco
Peter Gunn
Steve Canyon
Sergeant Bulla
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Deputy Sheriff Fix
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
Doc
Sea Hunt
Trackdown
The Walter Winchell File
Perry Mason
George Andrews
Have Gun, Will Travel
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Paul Russell
Panic!
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Fisk Madden
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Nicholson
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke
Ben Siple
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Lassie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball