John Anderson
Acting
Born 1922-10-20
Died 1992-08-07
Clayton, Illinois, USA
184 credits
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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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Acting
47 credits
Perry Mason
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Dallas
Hunter
The Fugitive
Little House on the Prairie
Bonanza
Murder, She Wrote
MacGyver
Quantum Leap
The Rifleman
M*A*S*H
Hawaii Five-O
Mannix
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Twilight Zone
Emergency!
The Virginian
The Rockford Files
Have Gun, Will Travel
Matlock
Quincy, M.E.
Dr. Kildare
The Bob Newhart Show
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Incredible Hulk
Rawhide
Jake and the Fatman
Psycho
Lawman
The Big Valley
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Thriller
Gunsmoke
The F.B.I.
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Outer Limits
Bat Masterson
North and South
Lou Grant
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Adventures in Paradise
My Favorite Martian
The Rebel
Felony Squad
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13 credits
Lassie
Hart to Hart
Cheyenne
Cannon
Peter Gunn
Ben Casey
Route 66
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Laramie
Tarzan
Matt Houston
Sea Hunt
The Detectives
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