
John Anderson
1 FOLLOWER • 82 CREDITS • OCT 20, 1922 - AUG 7, 1992 • 69
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

Gunsmoke

Murder, She Wrote

Perry Mason

Bonanza

The Virginian

The Twilight Zone

Rawhide

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Quincy, M.E.

Matlock

Dr. Kildare

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Jake and the Fatman

Hawaii Five-O

The F.B.I.

Mannix

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Fugitive

Thriller

Emergency!

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Route 66

Dallas

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Rockford Files

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Trackdown

The Incredible Hulk

Kung Fu

Law of the Plainsman

Cannon

Bat Masterson

Little House on the Prairie

Quantum Leap

Lancer

Outlaws

Peter Gunn

Lou Grant

Hunter

MacGyver

The Bob Newhart Show

M*A*S*H

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Lassie

The Rat Patrol

Cain's Hundred

Voyagers!

Sam Benedict

My Favorite Martian

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Bronk

Cimarron Strip

Johnny Ringo

Laramie

Tarzan

Yancy Derringer

Panic!

87th Precinct

Occasional Wife

The Lieutenant

The Tall Man

Bret Maverick

Silver Spoons

Redigo

The Quest

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

The Westerner

Annie McGuire

Bearcats!

Aaron's Way

Backstairs at the White House

Last Train from Gun Hill

Psycho

For the Love of Willadean

5 Card Stud

I-Man

The Dove

Call to Danger

Hallmark Hall of Fame
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