
John Anderson
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 20, 1922
- Died
- August 7, 1992 (aged 69)
- Birthplace
- Clayton, Illinois, USA
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)).
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Filmography

Rebel Range
Movie · as Fisk Madden

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Movie · as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)

Bed of Lies
Movie · as Price Daniel, Sr.

In Broad Daylight
Movie · as Wes Westerman

Daddy
Movie · as George Watson

Babe Ruth
Movie · as Judge Landis

Follow Your Heart
Movie · as Josh Lowe

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
Movie · as George Dutton

Deadly Innocents
Movie · as Gus

Quantum Leap
TV · as Pat Knight · 1 ep

Eight Men Out
Movie · as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Aaron's Way
TV · 2 eps
Annie McGuire
TV · 1 ep

American Harvest
Movie · as Judge Meriweather

Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV · as Kevin Uxbridge · 1 ep

Jake and the Fatman
TV · as Ace Thompson · 1 ep

I-Man
Movie · as Holbrook

Never Too Young to Die
Movie · as Arliss

Scorpion
Movie · as Noel G. Koch

Matlock
TV · as Sam Chandler · 1 ep

Heart of the City
TV · as Warren · 1 ep

Dream West
TV · as Brig. Gen. Brooke · 3 eps

MacGyver
TV · as Harry Jackson · 5 eps

North and South
TV · as William Hazard · 1 ep

Sins of the Past
Movie · as Rev. Donald Randolph

Hunter
TV · as Winston Taggert · 1 ep

Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Andrew Dixon · 1 ep

Scarecrow and Mrs. King
TV · 1 ep

Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Movie · as Stanley Willard

The First Time
Movie · as Paul Cooper

Silver Spoons
TV · as Captain Stark · 1 ep

Voyagers!
TV · 1 ep

Matt Houston
TV · 2 eps

Zoot Suit
Movie · as Judge F.W. Charles

Out of the Blue
Movie · as T.V. Interviewer

Bret Maverick
TV · as General Frye · 1 ep

Smokey and the Bandit II
Movie · as Governor

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
TV · 1 ep

In Search of Historic Jesus
Movie · as Caiaphas

Hart to Hart
TV · 1 ep

Backstairs at the White House
TV · as Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt · 4 eps

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
TV · as Col. Clayborn · 1 ep
$weepstake$
TV · as Thomas Singer · 1 ep

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
Movie · as Patrick Breen

The Deerslayer
Movie · as Hutter

Dallas
TV · as Dr. Herbert Styles · 7 eps

The Lincoln Conspiracy
Movie · as Abraham Lincoln

The Force of Evil
Movie · as Sheriff John Carrington

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Movie · as Alexander Majors

The Last Hurrah
Movie · as Amos Force

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
TV · as Floyd Carrington · 1 ep

The Incredible Hulk
TV · as Mike Calahan · 1 ep

Lou Grant
TV · as Russell Grainger · 1 ep

The Quest
Movie · as Army Officer

The Dark Side of Innocence
Movie · as Stephen Hancock

Bridger
Movie · as President Andrew Jackson

The Quest
TV · 1 ep

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
TV · as Scotty · 7 eps

Quincy, M.E.
TV · as Justin DeWilde, Chief Frank Ollano, Movie Director · 1 ep

The Specialist
Movie · as Pike Smith

Dead Man on the Run
Movie · as Jason Monroe

Death Among Friends
Movie · as Capt. Lewis

Bronk
TV · as Colonel Hecker · 1 ep

Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Movie · as Col. John Lockport

Manhunter
Movie · as Aaron Denver

Heatwave!
Movie · as Toler

The Dove
Movie · as Mike Turk

Lincoln: Trial by Fire
Movie · as President Lincoln

Little House on the Prairie
TV · as Amos Pike · 1 ep

The Rockford Files
TV · as Gerald A. O'Malley · 1 ep

Petrocelli
TV · as Joshua Forbes · 1 ep

Executive Action
Movie · as Halliday

Set This Town on Fire
Movie · as Henry Kealey

The Counsellor
Movie · as Don Vito Albanese

Call to Danger
Movie · as Edward McClure

Hitched
Movie · as Jomer Cruett

The Stepmother
Movie · as Inspector Darnezi

Molly and Lawless John
Movie · as Sheriff Marvin Parker

M*A*S*H
TV · as General Collins · 1 ep

Kung Fu
TV · as Jack Youngblood, Wray, Benjamin Dundee · 1 ep

The Bob Newhart Show
TV · as Mr. Charlie Colton · 1 ep

Emergency!
TV · as Captain Bob Roberts · 1 ep

The Sixth Sense
TV · as The Sheriff · 1 ep

Man and Boy
Movie · as Stretch

Cannon
TV · 1 ep

Bearcats!
TV · as Judge Juan O'Brien · 1 ep

Soldier Blue
Movie · as Col. Iverson

The Animals
Movie · as Sheriff Allan Pierce

The Andersonville Trial
Movie · as Ambrose Spencer

Cotton Comes to Harlem
Movie · as Capt. Bryce

Heaven with a Gun
Movie · as Ase Beck

Young Billy Young
Movie · as Boone

The Great Bank Robbery
Movie · as Mayor Kincaid

Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Brig. General Earl Rigney · 1 ep

5 Card Stud
Movie · as Marshal Dana

A Man Called Gannon
Movie · as Capper

Day of the Evil Gun
Movie · as Captain Jefferson Addis

Lancer
TV · 1 ep

Here Come the Brides
TV · 1 ep

Welcome to Hard Times
Movie · as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple

A Covenant with Death
Movie · as Dietrich

Cimarron Strip
TV · 1 ep

Mannix
TV · as George Blake · 1 ep

Scalplock
Movie · as Standish

Namu, the Killer Whale
Movie · as Joe Clausen

The Fortune Cookie
Movie · as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)

Tarzan
TV · 2 eps

Occasional Wife
TV · 1 ep

The Rat Patrol
TV · as Major Indrus, Gen. Owen Lansbury · 2 eps

Felony Squad
TV · as Lt. Mike Reineck · 1 ep

The Satan Bug
Movie · as Agent Reagan

The Hallelujah Trail
Movie · as Sgt. Buell

The F.B.I.
TV · as Adam MacDonald, Bollin · 1 ep

The Big Valley
TV · as Matt Bentell · 2 eps

The Legend of Jesse James
TV · as Moss Canby · 1 ep

For the Love of Willadean
Movie · as Farmer Wills

The Great Adventure
TV · as Colonel Knowlton · 1 ep

Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV · as Rankin · 1 ep

Redigo
TV · 1 ep

The Fugitive
TV · as Justin Briggs, Ed Shrader · 1 ep

The Outer Limits
TV · as Ebonite Interrogator · 1 ep

My Favorite Martian
TV · as Capt. Farrow · 1 ep

The Lieutenant
TV · as Joe Hammond · 1 ep

Ride the High Country
Movie · as Elder Hammond

Geronimo
Movie · as Jeremiah Burns

Walk on the Wild Side
Movie · as Preacher

The Virginian
TV · as Major Cass, Adam Tercell, Jeremiah Chilton, Deputy Sheriff Sam Morrell, Sam McLain, Seth James · 1 ep

Stoney Burke
TV · 2 eps

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Luke Hunter, Adam · 1 ep

Sam Benedict
TV · as James Bradley, Jim Bradley · 1 ep

Cain's Hundred
TV · as Kenneth Drake · 1 ep

87th Precinct
TV · 1 ep

Ben Casey
TV · 3 eps

Dr. Kildare
TV · as Vernon Hackett · 1 ep

Psycho
Movie · as California Charlie

The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Movie · as Sailor (uncredited)

Route 66
TV · 1 ep

The Tall Man
TV · 1 ep

Outlaws
TV · 2 eps

Thriller
TV · as Jacob Grant · 1 ep

Harrigan and Son
TV · as Earl · 1 ep

Stagecoach West
TV · as Cole Dawson · 1 ep

The Westerner
TV · as Leth Ritchie · 1 ep

Peter Loves Mary
TV · as Bill Horton · 1 ep

Last Train from Gun Hill
Movie · as Salesman

The Twilight Zone
TV · as Goldsmith, Capt. 'Skipper' Farver, Deidrich, Gabriel · 1 ep

Rawhide
TV · as Captain James Rankin, Maj. Cantwell · 1 ep

Adventures in Paradise
TV · as Benson · 1 ep

Black Saddle
TV · as Clyde Wicker · 2 eps

The Rebel
TV · as Ezra Taber · 1 ep

Laramie
TV · 1 ep

Law of the Plainsman
TV · as Clyde Santee, Matthew Bannock, Jeb Wicken · 1 ep

The Detectives
TV · 3 eps

Johnny Ringo
TV · as Cartwright · 1 ep

Bonanza
TV · as Sam Masters, Gorman, Tulsa Weems · 1 ep

The True Story of Lynn Stuart
Movie · as Doc

Sea Hunt
TV · 3 eps

Yancy Derringer
TV · as Wayne Raven · 1 ep

Peter Gunn
TV · 1 ep

Bronco
TV · 1 ep

Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV · as Deputy Sheriff Fix · 1 ep

The Rifleman
TV · as Samuel Gibbs, Owny Kincaid · 7 eps

Bat Masterson
TV · as Major Liam Mars · 1 ep

Lawman
TV · as Hassayampa Edwards · 1 ep

Steve Canyon
TV · as Sergeant Bulla · 1 ep

Trackdown
TV · as McCall · 1 ep

Perry Mason
TV · as George Andrews, Bud Ferrand, Dan O'Malley · 1 ep

Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · as Fred Cooley · 1 ep

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV · as Paul Russell · 1 ep

The Walter Winchell File
TV · 1 ep

Panic!
TV · 1 ep

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Fisk Madden, Roy Kelsey, Marshal Cal Lazenby, John Duncan · 1 ep

Cheyenne
TV · 1 ep

Gunsmoke
TV · as Ben Siple, Delliver, Yermo, Cheevers, Pa Gibbijohn, Les McConnell, Roberts, Jess Fletcher, Amos Sadler, Lemuel Cleary, Adam Kimbro · 1 ep

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Nicholson, Attendant · 1 ep

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV · as Virgil Earp · 1 ep

Lassie
TV · 1 ep

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Movie

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Amos Force · 1 ep
Inside Detective
TV · as Theater manager · 1 ep

