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John Anderson
1 FOLLOWER • 87 CREDITS • OCT 20, 1922 - AUG 7, 1992 • 69
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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)).
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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
Murder, She Wrote
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The F.B.I.
Gunsmoke
Mannix
Bonanza
Perry Mason
Rawhide
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Matlock
Dr. Kildare
The Incredible Hulk
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jake and the Fatman
Lou Grant
Hawaii Five-O
Quincy, M.E.
The Fugitive
Emergency!
Thriller
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Route 66
Dallas
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Rockford Files
Kung Fu
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Petrocelli
Cannon
Sam Benedict
Bat Masterson
Little House on the Prairie
Quantum Leap
Lancer
The Big Valley
Outlaws
Peter Gunn
Hunter
MacGyver
M*A*S*H
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The Bob Newhart Show
Lassie
Cain's Hundred
Voyagers!
My Favorite Martian
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Bronk
Cimarron Strip
Johnny Ringo
The Rat Patrol
Peter Loves Mary
Laramie
$weepstake$
The Twilight Zone
Tarzan
Yancy Derringer
Panic!
Occasional Wife
87th Precinct
The Lieutenant
The Tall Man
Law of the Plainsman
Bret Maverick
Silver Spoons
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
Redigo
The Quest
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
The Westerner
Annie McGuire
Aaron's Way
Trackdown
Bearcats!
Backstairs at the White House
Last Train from Gun Hill
Psycho
For the Love of Willadean
5 Card Stud
I-Man
The Dove
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Virginian
Call to Danger
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