Robert Lansing
Acting
Born 1928-06-05
Died 1994-10-23
San Diego, California, USA
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Robert Lansing (June 5, 1928 - October 23, 1994) was an American stage, film and television actor.
Born in San Diego, California as Robert Howell Brown, he reportedly took his acting surname from the state capital of Michigan. As a young actor in New York City, he was hired to join a stock company in Michigan but was told he would first have to join Actors Equity Association. Equity would not allow him to join as "Robert Brown" since there was already another actor using that name. Since the stock company was based in Lansing, this became the actor's new surname.
In the 1961–1962 television season, Lansing appeared as Detective Steve Carella on NBC's 87th Precinct series based on the Ed McBain detective novels. His costars were Gena Rowlands, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, and Norman Fell. In 1961, he played the outlaw Frank Dalton in a two-part episode of NBC's The Outlaws with Barton MacLane. On film, Lansing starred in the late-1950s sci-fi film 4D Man (which included a young Patty Duke).
Other notable television roles include portrayals of an alcoholic college professor in ABC's drama Channing, as General George Custer on Chuck Connors's NBC series Branded, as Gil Green in the 1963 episode "Fear Begins at Forty" on the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, in a 1965 episode of I Spy, 1965 Gunsmoke as a bounty hunter, as a parole officer in a 1968 episode (A Time To Love - A Time To Cry) of The Mod Squad and as intergalactic secret agent Gary Seven in a 1968 episode "Assignment: Earth" on Star Trek. He appeared as General Frank Savage on Twelve O'Clock High, as an international secret agent in The Man Who Never Was, as Lt. Jack Curtis on Automan and as Control on The Equalizer. He made a notable appearance on The Twilight Zone episode "The Long Morrow". His final role was that of "Paul Blaisdell" on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.
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Acting
47 credits
Law & Order
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Star Trek
Murder, She Wrote
Bonanza
Great Performances
Mannix
The Twilight Zone
The Virginian
American Experience
The Equalizer
Daniel Boone
Gunsmoke
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Thriller
The High Chaparral
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
The Name of the Game
One Step Beyond
Monsters
12 O'Clock High
The Loner
Checkmate
The Doris Day Show
Cimarron Strip
87th Precinct
You Are There
Automan
Journey to the Unknown
Saints and Sinners
Empire of the Ants
The DuPont Show of the Week
General Electric Theater
The Man Who Never Was
The Nest
A Gathering of Eagles
The Grissom Gang
Namu, the Killer Whale
Crime Club
False Face
4D Man
Under the Yum Yum Tree
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Island Claws
Killer by Night
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
An Eye for an Eye
Other credits
13 credits
The Donna Reed Show
Simon & Simon
Hotel
The Rookies
Young Doctor Malone
The Mod Squad
Branded
The Tall Man
Sam Benedict
Outlaws
The Monroes
The Evil Touch
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
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