John Anderson
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)).
Movies
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
24 Hour Psycho
California Charlie (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
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
George Dutton
Eight Men Out
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
American Harvest
Judge Meriweather
Scorpion
Noel G. Koch
Never Too Young to Die
Arliss
I-Man
Holbrook
Sins of the Past
Rev. Donald Randolph
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Stanley Willard
The First Time
Paul Cooper
Zoot Suit
Judge F.W. Charles
Out of the Blue
T.V. Interviewer
Smokey and the Bandit II
Governor
In Search of Historic Jesus
Caiaphas
The Deerslayer
Hutter
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
Patrick Breen
The Last Hurrah
Amos Force
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Alexander Majors
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Abraham Lincoln
The Force of Evil
Sheriff John Carrington
Bridger
President Andrew Jackson
The Dark Side of Innocence
Stephen Hancock
The Quest
Army Officer
Death Among Friends
Capt. Lewis
The Specialist
Pike Smith
Dead Man on the Run
Jason Monroe
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
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
5 Card Stud
Marshal Dana
A Man Called Gannon
Capper
Day of the Evil Gun
Captain Jefferson Addis
Welcome to Hard Times
Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
A Covenant with Death
Dietrich
The Fortune Cookie
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Namu, the Killer Whale
Joe Clausen
Scalplock
Standish
The Hallelujah Trail
Sgt. Buell
The Satan Bug
Agent Reagan
For the Love of Willadean
Farmer Wills
Ride the High Country
Elder Hammond
Geronimo
Jeremiah Burns
Walk on the Wild Side
Preacher
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Sailor (uncredited)
Psycho
California Charlie
Last Train from Gun Hill
Salesman
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
Doc
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Rebel Range
Fisk Madden
TV Series
Quantum Leap
Pat Knight
1 Episode
Annie McGuire
1 Episode
Aaron's Way
2 Episodes
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Kevin Uxbridge
1 Episode
Jake and the Fatman
Ace Thompson
1 Episode
Heart of the City
Warren
1 Episode
Dream West
Brig. Gen. Brooke
3 Episodes
Matlock
Sam Chandler
1 Episode
North and South
William Hazard
1 Episode
MacGyver
Harry Jackson
5 Episodes
Murder, She Wrote
Andrew Dixon
1 Episode
Hunter
Winston Taggert
1 Episode
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1 Episode
Voyagers!
1 Episode
Matt Houston
2 Episodes
Silver Spoons
1 Episode
Bret Maverick
General Frye
1 Episode
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1 Episode
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
Col. Clayborn
1 Episode
Hart to Hart
1 Episode
Backstairs at the White House
Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4 Episodes
$weepstake$
Thomas Singer
1 Episode
Dallas
Dr. Herbert Styles
7 Episodes
The Incredible Hulk
Mike Calahan
1 Episode
Lou Grant
Russell Grainger
1 Episode
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
Floyd Carrington
1 Episode
Quincy, M.E.
Justin DeWilde
1 Episode
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
Scotty
7 Episodes
The Quest
1 Episode
Bronk
Colonel Hecker
1 Episode
The Rockford Files
Gerald A. O'Malley
1 Episode
Little House on the Prairie
1 Episode
Petrocelli
Joshua Forbes
1 Episode
Kung Fu
Jack Youngblood
1 Episode
M*A*S*H
General Collins
1 Episode
The Bob Newhart Show
1 Episode
Emergency!
Captain Bob Roberts
1 Episode
The Sixth Sense
1 Episode
Bearcats!
Judge Juan O'Brien
1 Episode
Cannon
1 Episode
Here Come the Brides
1 Episode
Lancer
1 Episode
Hawaii Five-O
Brig. General Earl Rigney
1 Episode
Mannix
George Blake
1 Episode
Cimarron Strip
1 Episode
Occasional Wife
1 Episode
The Rat Patrol
Major Indrus
2 Episodes
Felony Squad
Lt. Mike Reineck
1 Episode
Tarzan
2 Episodes
The F.B.I.
Adam MacDonald
1 Episode
The Big Valley
Matt Bentell
2 Episodes
The Legend of Jesse James
Moss Canby
1 Episode
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Rankin
1 Episode
My Favorite Martian
Capt. Farrow
1 Episode
The Great Adventure
Colonel Knowlton
1 Episode
Redigo
1 Episode
The Fugitive
Justin Briggs
1 Episode
The Outer Limits
Ebonite Interrogator
1 Episode
The Lieutenant
Joe Hammond
1 Episode
Stoney Burke
2 Episodes
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Luke Hunter
1 Episode
The Virginian
Major Cass
1 Episode
Sam Benedict
James Bradley
1 Episode
Ben Casey
3 Episodes
Dr. Kildare
Vernon Hackett
1 Episode
87th Precinct
1 Episode
Cain's Hundred
Kenneth Drake
1 Episode
Harrigan and Son
Earl
1 Episode
Peter Loves Mary
Bill Horton
1 Episode
Route 66
1 Episode
Stagecoach West
Cole Dawson
1 Episode
The Westerner
Leth Ritchie
1 Episode
Outlaws
2 Episodes
Thriller
Jacob Grant
1 Episode
The Tall Man
1 Episode
The Detectives
3 Episodes
Adventures in Paradise
Benson
1 Episode
The Rebel
Ezra Taber
1 Episode
The Twilight Zone
Capt. 'Skipper' Farver
1 Episode
Johnny Ringo
Cartwright
1 Episode
Law of the Plainsman
Clyde Santee
1 Episode
Laramie
1 Episode
Bonanza
Sam Masters
1 Episode
Black Saddle
Clyde Wicker
2 Episodes
Rawhide
Captain James Rankin
1 Episode
Bat Masterson
Major Liam Mars
1 Episode
Lawman
Hassayampa Edwards
1 Episode
Yancy Derringer
Wayne Raven
1 Episode
The Rifleman
7 Episodes
Bronco
1 Episode
Peter Gunn
1 Episode
Steve Canyon
Sergeant Bulla
1 Episode
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Deputy Sheriff Fix
1 Episode
Sea Hunt
3 Episodes
Trackdown
1 Episode
The Walter Winchell File
1 Episode
Perry Mason
George Andrews
1 Episode
Have Gun, Will Travel
1 Episode
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Paul Russell
1 Episode
Panic!
1 Episode
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Fisk Madden
1 Episode
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Nicholson
1 Episode
Cheyenne
1 Episode
Gunsmoke
Ben Siple
1 Episode
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
2 Episodes
Lassie
1 Episode
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1 Episode
Inside Detective
Theater manager
1 Episode