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John Anderson
1 FOLLOWER • 81 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
Gunsmoke
Murder, She Wrote
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Bonanza
Perry Mason
Rawhide
Quincy, M.E.
Matlock
Dr. Kildare
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jake and the Fatman
Emergency!
Hawaii Five-O
The F.B.I.
Mannix
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Fugitive
Kung Fu
Thriller
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Route 66
Dallas
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Rockford Files
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Incredible Hulk
Cannon
Bat Masterson
Little House on the Prairie
Quantum Leap
Lancer
Outlaws
Peter Gunn
Lou Grant
Hunter
MacGyver
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Bob Newhart Show
M*A*S*H
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Lassie
The Rat Patrol
Cain's Hundred
Voyagers!
Sam Benedict
My Favorite Martian
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Bronk
Cimarron Strip
Johnny Ringo
Laramie
The Twilight Zone
Tarzan
Yancy Derringer
87th Precinct
Occasional Wife
The Lieutenant
The Tall Man
Bret Maverick
Silver Spoons
Redigo
The Quest
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
The Westerner
Annie McGuire
Aaron's Way
Trackdown
Bearcats!
Backstairs at the White House
Last Train from Gun Hill
Psycho
For the Love of Willadean
5 Card Stud
I-Man
The Dove
Call to Danger
The Virginian
Law of the Plainsman
Hallmark Hall of Fame
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