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John Anderson
1 FOLLOWER • 83 CREDITS • OCT 20, 1922 - AUG 7, 1992 • 69
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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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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)).
Known For
Murder, She Wrote
The F.B.I.
Bonanza
Perry Mason
The Virginian
The Twilight Zone
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Matlock
Dr. Kildare
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Incredible Hulk
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Emergency!
Lou Grant
Hawaii Five-O
Mannix
Have Gun, Will Travel
Kung Fu
Quincy, M.E.
The Fugitive
Thriller
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Route 66
Dallas
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Rockford Files
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Rawhide
Cannon
Bat Masterson
Little House on the Prairie
Quantum Leap
Lancer
Outlaws
Peter Gunn
Hunter
Bronk
MacGyver
The Bob Newhart Show
Jake and the Fatman
M*A*S*H
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Lassie
Cain's Hundred
Voyagers!
Sam Benedict
My Favorite Martian
Gunsmoke
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Johnny Ringo
Cimarron Strip
The Rat Patrol
Peter Loves Mary
Laramie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Tarzan
Yancy Derringer
Bret Maverick
Panic!
87th Precinct
Occasional Wife
The Lieutenant
The Tall Man
Silver Spoons
Redigo
The Quest
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
The Westerner
Annie McGuire
Trackdown
Bearcats!
Aaron's Way
Backstairs at the White House
Last Train from Gun Hill
Psycho
5 Card Stud
For the Love of Willadean
The Dove
I-Man
Call to Danger
Law of the Plainsman
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