Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 20, 1922
Died
Aug 07, 1992
Place of Birth
Clayton, Illinois, USA
Credits
184 titles
John Anderson
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
John, 316
Story Editor
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
Annie McGuire
Eight Men Out
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Aaron's Way
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
$weepstake$
Thomas Singer
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