John Anderson
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)).
Acting (71 movies)
Psycho
1960
Heaven with a Gun
1969
5 Card Stud
1968
The Satan Bug
1965
Eight Men Out
1988
I-Man
1986
Executive Action
1973
Soldier Blue
1970
Ride the High Country
1962
Geronimo
1962
Scalplock
1966
Young Billy Young
1969
24 Hour Psycho
1993
Namu, the Killer Whale
1966
Zoot Suit
1981
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
1974
The Animals
1970
The Stepmother
1972
The Lincoln Conspiracy
1977
Manhunter
1974
The Force of Evil
1977
The Great Bank Robbery
1969
Man and Boy
1971
In Broad Daylight
1991
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
The Quest
1976
Daddy
1991
A Covenant with Death
1967
Follow Your Heart
1990
Last Train from Gun Hill
1959
In Search of Historic Jesus
1979
Heatwave!
1974
The Dark Side of Innocence
1976
Molly and Lawless John
1972
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
A Man Called Gannon
1968
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960
The Fortune Cookie
1966
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
1982
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
1977
The Last Hurrah
1977
Day of the Evil Gun
1968
The Andersonville Trial
1970
Cotton Comes to Harlem
1970
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
1958
The Specialist
1975
The Dove
1974
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
1994
Babe Ruth
1991
Never Too Young to Die
1986
The Hallelujah Trail
1965
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
1989
Deadly Innocents
1989
Counselor at Crime
1973
Call to Danger
1973
Walk on the Wild Side
1962
American Harvest
1987
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
1978
The Deerslayer
1978
Sins of the Past
1984
Scorpion
1986
Bed of Lies
1992
For the Love of Willadean
1964
Bridger
1976
Out of the Blue
1981
Dead Man on the Run
1975
Hitched
1973
The First Time
1982
Hang the Heart High
1959
Lincoln: Trial by Fire
1974
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