John Anderson
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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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
M*A*S*H
7.911
Cheyenne
5.8
Trackdown
6.4
Cain's Hundred
4.7
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
6.8
Star Trek: The Next Generation
8.368
Kung Fu
7.6
The Great Adventure
0
Little House on the Prairie
7.937
Kraft Suspense Theatre
5.3
The F.B.I.
5.5
Silver Spoons
6.3
Matlock
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Route 66
6.3
The Bob Newhart Show
7.5
The Twilight Zone
8.447
The Twilight Zone
8.447
The Twilight Zone
8.447
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
6.3
MacGyver
7.7
Quantum Leap
8
Gunsmoke
6.6
Hart to Hart
6.831
Perry Mason
7.7
Lassie
6.1
Voyagers!
7.506
Cannon
6.5
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Hunter
7.2
The Twilight Zone
8.447
Backstairs at the White House
5.9
Dallas
6.8
Sea Hunt
6.559
The Tall Man
6.3
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
87th Precinct
7.5
Redigo
5
The Quest
6.4
Outlaws
6.2
Felony Squad
6.4
Aaron's Way
5
Rawhide
7.2
Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4
Cimarron Strip
5
The Fugitive
7.2
The Virginian
6.5
Lancer
4.7
Thriller
6.417
Yancy Derringer
5.6
Peter Gunn
6.5
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
6.579
Matt Houston
6.2
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
6.2
The Big Valley
6.1
Here Come the Brides
6
Adventures in Paradise
5.7
Bronco
5.2
Tarzan
6.7
The Sixth Sense
6.3
Occasional Wife
7.5
Black Saddle
6
Wanted: Dead or Alive
6.894
The Rebel
5.1
The Rifleman
7
Bat Masterson
6.1
Ben Casey
5.6
Laramie
6.4
The Rat Patrol
7.2
Law of the Plainsman
6
The Detectives
5.6
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Heart of the City
5
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
The Lieutenant
6
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
6
Stoney Burke
5.7
Johnny Ringo
5.7
The Legend of Jesse James
4.8
Annie McGuire
5
Dr. Kildare
5.5
The Walter Winchell File
5
The Outer Limits
7.8
The Fugitive
7.2
Panic!
0
Dream West
5
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
North and South
7.417
Law of the Plainsman
6
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.774
Rawhide
7.2
The F.B.I.
5.5
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
Law of the Plainsman
6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Harrigan and Son
0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
8.6
Perry Mason
7.7
The Rat Patrol
7.2
Perry Mason
7.7
Quincy, M.E.
7.5
The Rifleman
7
Bearcats!
6.2
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
The Virginian
6.5
The Rockford Files
7.5
Jake and the Fatman
6.041
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
6.579
Kung Fu
7.6
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
Quincy, M.E.
7.5
Emergency!
7.8
My Favorite Martian
6
The Incredible Hulk
7.242
Quincy, M.E.
7.5
Stagecoach West
6
The Westerner
6.8
Bonanza
7.5
The Rifleman
7
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
7.8
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
7.8
Kung Fu
7.6
Bonanza
7.5
Trackdown
6.4
Bret Maverick
4
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
5.1
Bronk
6.2
Inside Detective
0
Lou Grant
7.25
Peter Loves Mary
5
Sam Benedict
6
Petrocelli
7
Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4
Mannix
6.7
Movies
Psycho
8.422
Heaven with a Gun
5.5
5 Card Stud
6.253
The Satan Bug
6.1
Eight Men Out
6.901
I-Man
5
Executive Action
6.4
Soldier Blue
6.8
Ride the High Country
7.048
Geronimo
5.4
Scalplock
6.5
Young Billy Young
5.9
24 Hour Psycho
4
Namu, the Killer Whale
4.417
Zoot Suit
6.1
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
6.1
The Animals
3.7
The Stepmother
3.917
The Lincoln Conspiracy
5.6
Manhunter
6.5
The Force of Evil
6
The Great Bank Robbery
6.3
Man and Boy
6
In Broad Daylight
5.7
Welcome to Hard Times
5
The Quest
10
Daddy
4.444
A Covenant with Death
5
Follow Your Heart
0
Last Train from Gun Hill
7.1
In Search of Historic Jesus
4.3
Heatwave!
5.9
The Dark Side of Innocence
0
Molly and Lawless John
3
Set This Town on Fire
0
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
6.682
A Man Called Gannon
4.4
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
5.9
The Fortune Cookie
7.2
Smokey and the Bandit II
5.532
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
6.7
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
7
The Last Hurrah
0
Day of the Evil Gun
6.2
The Andersonville Trial
6.7
Cotton Comes to Harlem
6.2
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
6.3
The Specialist
3.5
The Dove
6.35
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
6.2
Babe Ruth
6
Never Too Young to Die
4.6
The Hallelujah Trail
6.047
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
4.643
Deadly Innocents
7
Counselor at Crime
5.6
Call to Danger
0
Walk on the Wild Side
6.6
American Harvest
0
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
0
The Deerslayer
5
Sins of the Past
5
Scorpion
4.3
Bed of Lies
5
For the Love of Willadean
6
Bridger
0
Out of the Blue
6.913
Dead Man on the Run
6
Hitched
6
The First Time
4
Rebel Range
0