John Anderson
Born: 1922-10-20 in Clayton, Illinois, USA
Died: 1992-08-07
Known For: Acting
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)).
Filmography
2021
- John, 316 ... (Story Editor)
1994
- Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
1993
- 24 Hour Psycho as California Charlie (archive footage)
1992
- Bed of Lies as Price Daniel, Sr.
1991
- Daddy as George Watson
- Babe Ruth as Judge Landis
- In Broad Daylight as Wes Westerman
1990
- Follow Your Heart as Josh Lowe
1989
- Quantum Leap as Pat Knight
- Deadly Innocents as Gus
- Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal as George Dutton
1988
- Eight Men Out as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
- Aaron's Way
- Annie McGuire
1987
- Star Trek: The Next Generation as Kevin Uxbridge
- Jake and the Fatman as Ace Thompson
- American Harvest as Judge Meriweather
1986
- Matlock as Sam Chandler
- I-Man as Holbrook
- Heart of the City as Warren
- Never Too Young to Die as Arliss
- Dream West as Brig. Gen. Brooke
- Scorpion as Noel G. Koch
1985
- MacGyver as Harry Jackson
- North and South as William Hazard
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Andrew Dixon
- Hunter as Winston Taggert
- Sins of the Past as Rev. Donald Randolph
1982
- Matt Houston
- Silver Spoons
- Voyagers!
- The First Time as Paul Cooper
- Missing Children: A Mother's Story as Stanley Willard
1981
- Zoot Suit as Judge F.W. Charles
- Out of the Blue as T.V. Interviewer
- Bret Maverick as General Frye
1980
- Smokey and the Bandit II as Governor
- Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1979
- Hart to Hart
- The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo as Col. Clayborn
- $weepstake$ as Thomas Singer
- Backstairs at the White House as Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- In Search of Historic Jesus as Caiaphas
1978
- Dallas as Dr. Herbert Styles
- The Deerslayer as Hutter
- Donner Pass: The Road to Survival as Patrick Breen
1977
- The Incredible Hulk as Mike Calahan
- Lou Grant as Russell Grainger
- The Force of Evil as Sheriff John Carrington
- Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion as Alexander Majors
- The Lincoln Conspiracy as Abraham Lincoln
- The Last Hurrah as Amos Force
- Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected as Floyd Carrington
1976
- Quincy, M.E. as Justin DeWilde
- Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II as Scotty
- The Quest as Army Officer
- The Quest
- The Dark Side of Innocence as Stephen Hancock
- Bridger as President Andrew Jackson
1975
- Bronk as Colonel Hecker
- The Specialist as Pike Smith
- Death Among Friends as Capt. Lewis
- Dead Man on the Run as Jason Monroe
1974
- Little House on the Prairie
- The Rockford Files as Gerald A. O'Malley
- The Dove as Mike Turk
- Petrocelli as Joshua Forbes
- Manhunter as Aaron Denver
- Smile Jenny, You're Dead as Col. John Lockport
- Heatwave! as Toler
- Lincoln: Trial by Fire as President Lincoln
1973
- Counselor at Crime as Don Vito Albanese
- Hitched as Jomer Cruett
- Executive Action as Halliday
- Set This Town on Fire as Henry Kealey
- Call to Danger as Edward McClure
1972
- M*A*S*H as General Collins
- Emergency! as Captain Bob Roberts
- The Bob Newhart Show
- The Sixth Sense
- The Stepmother as Inspector Darnezi
- Molly and Lawless John as Sheriff Marvin Parker
- Kung Fu as Jack Youngblood
1971
- Cannon
- Man and Boy as Stretch
- Bearcats! as Judge Juan O'Brien
1970
- Cotton Comes to Harlem as Capt. Bryce
- Soldier Blue as Col. Iverson
- The Andersonville Trial as Ambrose Spencer
- The Animals as Sheriff Allan Pierce
1969
- Young Billy Young as Boone
- Heaven with a Gun as Ase Beck
- The Great Bank Robbery as Mayor Kincaid
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Brig. General Earl Rigney
- Lancer
- Here Come the Brides
- 5 Card Stud as Marshal Dana
- A Man Called Gannon as Capper
- Day of the Evil Gun as Captain Jefferson Addis
1967
- Mannix as George Blake
- Cimarron Strip
- A Covenant with Death as Dietrich
- Welcome to Hard Times as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
1966
- Felony Squad as Lt. Mike Reineck
- Tarzan
- The Rat Patrol as Major Indrus
- Scalplock as Standish
- The Fortune Cookie as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
- Namu, the Killer Whale as Joe Clausen
- Occasional Wife
1965
- The Big Valley as Matt Bentell
- The F.B.I. as Adam MacDonald
- The Hallelujah Trail as Sgt. Buell
- The Satan Bug as Agent Reagan
- The Legend of Jesse James as Moss Canby
1964
- For the Love of Willadean as Farmer Wills
1963
- The Fugitive as Justin Briggs
- The Outer Limits as Ebonite Interrogator
- My Favorite Martian as Capt. Farrow
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Rankin
- The Great Adventure as Colonel Knowlton
- The Lieutenant as Joe Hammond
- Redigo
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Luke Hunter
- The Virginian as Major Cass
- Sam Benedict as James Bradley
- Geronimo as Jeremiah Burns
- Stoney Burke
- Ride the High Country as Elder Hammond
- Walk on the Wild Side as Preacher
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Vernon Hackett
- Ben Casey
- Cain's Hundred as Kenneth Drake
- 87th Precinct
1960
- Psycho as California Charlie
- Route 66
- Thriller as Jacob Grant
- Outlaws
- The Tall Man
- The Wackiest Ship in the Army as Sailor (uncredited)
- Stagecoach West as Cole Dawson
- The Westerner as Leth Ritchie
- Harrigan and Son as Earl
- Peter Loves Mary as Bill Horton
1959
- Bonanza as Sam Masters
- The Twilight Zone as Goldsmith
- Rawhide as Captain James Rankin
- Laramie
- The Rebel as Ezra Taber
- Adventures in Paradise as Benson
- Johnny Ringo as Cartwright
- The Detectives
- Law of the Plainsman as Clyde Santee
- Black Saddle as Clyde Wicker
- Last Train from Gun Hill as Salesman
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Deputy Sheriff Fix
- Lawman as Hassayampa Edwards
- Bat Masterson as Major Liam Mars
- Sea Hunt
- Peter Gunn
- Bronco
- Yancy Derringer as Wayne Raven
- The True Story of Lynn Stuart as Doc
- Steve Canyon as Sergeant Bulla
1957
- Perry Mason as George Andrews
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Paul Russell
- Trackdown
- The Walter Winchell File
- Panic!
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Fisk Madden
1955
- Cheyenne
- Gunsmoke as Ben Siple
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Nicholson
1954
1950
- Inside Detective as Theater manager
1946
- Dick Tracy vs. Cueball ... (Assistant Director)