Robert Lansing
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 5, 1928
- Died
- October 23, 1994 (aged 66)
- Birthplace
- San Diego, California, USA
Biography
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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Filmography
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
TV · as Paul Blaisdell · 44 eps
Law & Order
TV · as COO Peter O'Farrell · 1 ep
Memories of Manon
Movie · as Control
The Nest
Movie · as Elias Johnson
After School
Movie · as C.A. Thomas
American Experience
TV · as Narrator · 1 ep
Monsters
TV · as Ernest Chariot · 1 ep
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Movie · as Control
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as G. William Howe · 1 ep
The Equalizer
TV · as Control · 29 eps
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Herb Walsh, Lawrence Jarvis · 1 ep
Automan
TV · as Lt. Jack Curtis · 13 eps
Hotel
TV · 1 ep
Simon & Simon
TV · 1 ep
Island Claws
Movie · as Moody
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
Movie · as Owen Hooper
Life on the Mississippi
Movie
Empire of the Ants
Movie · as Dan Stokely
False Face
Movie · as Dr. Phillip Reynolds
The Deadly Triangle
Movie · as Charles Cole
Bittersweet Love
Movie · as Howard
Widow
Movie · as Harold
Acapulco Gold
Movie · as Carl Solborg
Crime Club
Movie · as Alex Norton
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
Movie
The Evil Touch
TV · 2 eps
The Astronaut
Movie · as John Phillips
Wild in the Sky
Movie · as Major Reason
Killer by Night
Movie · as Warren Claman
The Rookies
TV · 1 ep
The Grissom Gang
Movie · as Dave Fenner
Great Performances
TV · as Horace Bixby · 1 ep
It Takes All Kinds
Movie · as Tony Gunther
Danger Has Two Faces
Movie · as Peter Murphy
The Mod Squad
TV · 1 ep
Journey to the Unknown
TV · as Jon Holden · 1 ep
The Name of the Game
TV · as Fred Martin · 1 ep
The Doris Day Show
TV · as Sgt. Bill Winston · 1 ep
The High Chaparral
TV · as Marshall Virgil Packer · 1 ep
Mannix
TV · as George Edward Diamond, Chief Carl Yaring · 1 ep
Cimarron Strip
TV · as Darcy · 1 ep
Namu, the Killer Whale
Movie · as Hank Donner
An Eye for an Eye
Movie · as Bill Talion
Star Trek
TV · as Gary Seven · 1 ep
The Monroes
TV · 1 ep
The Man Who Never Was
TV · as Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright · 18 eps
Branded
TV · 2 eps
The Loner
TV · as Hibbard · 1 ep
Calhoun
Movie · as Eric Sloane
Daniel Boone
TV · as Capt. Robert Ives · 1 ep
12 O'Clock High
TV · as Brigadier General Frank Savage · 32 eps
A Gathering of Eagles
Movie · as Sgt. Banning
Under the Yum Yum Tree
Movie · as Dr. Charles Howard
Saints and Sinners
TV · as Don Colley · 1 ep
Sam Benedict
TV · 2 eps
The Virginian
TV · as George Calhoun, Matt Denning, Lee Knight · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
87th Precinct
TV · as Detective Steve Carella · 30 eps
The DuPont Show of the Week
TV · as Mooney · 1 ep
The Pusher
Movie · as Steve Carella
The Fatal Impulse
Movie · as Lieutenant Brian Rome
The Tall Man
TV · 1 ep
Outlaws
TV · as Frank Dalton
Thriller
TV · as Lieutenant Brian Rome · 1 ep
Checkmate
TV · as Barry Sironde · 1 ep
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
TV · 1 ep
4D Man
Movie · as Dr. Scott Nelson
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Douglas Stansfield · 1 ep
One Step Beyond
TV · as Jared Corning · 1 ep
Bonanza
TV · as Jed Trask, Gunny O'Riley, John Dundee · 1 ep
The Donna Reed Show
TV · 1 ep
Young Doctor Malone
TV · 322 eps
Gunsmoke
TV · as Luke Frazer, Yancy Tyce · 1 ep
General Electric Theater
TV · as James Wilson · 1 ep
You Are There
TV · as William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State · 1 ep