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)
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
- Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal as George Dutton
- Deadly Innocents as Gus
1988
- Aaron's Way
- Eight Men Out as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
- 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
- Heart of the City as Warren
- Dream West as Brig. Gen. Brooke
- Never Too Young to Die as Arliss
- I-Man as Holbrook
- 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
- Silver Spoons as Captain Stark
- Matt Houston
- Voyagers!
- Missing Children: A Mother's Story as Stanley Willard
- The First Time as Paul Cooper
1981
- Bret Maverick as General Frye
- Out of the Blue as T.V. Interviewer
- Zoot Suit as Judge F.W. Charles
1980
- Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
- Smokey and the Bandit II as Governor
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
- Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected as Floyd Carrington
- The Force of Evil as Sheriff John Carrington
- The Lincoln Conspiracy as Abraham Lincoln
- The Last Hurrah as Amos Force
- Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion as Alexander Majors
1976
- Quincy, M.E. as Justin DeWilde
- Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II as Scotty
- The Quest
- Bridger as President Andrew Jackson
- The Quest as Army Officer
- The Dark Side of Innocence as Stephen Hancock
1975
- Bronk as Colonel Hecker
- Death Among Friends as Capt. Lewis
- The Specialist as Pike Smith
- Dead Man on the Run as Jason Monroe
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Amos Pike
- The Rockford Files as Gerald A. O'Malley
- Petrocelli as Joshua Forbes
- Manhunter as Aaron Denver
- The Dove as Mike Turk
- Heatwave! as Toler
- Smile Jenny, You're Dead as Col. John Lockport
- Lincoln: Trial by Fire as President Lincoln
1973
- Executive Action as Halliday
- Counselor at Crime as Don Vito Albanese
- Call to Danger as Edward McClure
- Hitched as Jomer Cruett
- Set This Town on Fire as Henry Kealey
1972
- M*A*S*H as General Collins
- Emergency! as Captain Bob Roberts
- The Bob Newhart Show as Mr. Charlie Colton
- The Sixth Sense
- Kung Fu as Jack Youngblood
- The Stepmother as Inspector Darnezi
- Molly and Lawless John as Sheriff Marvin Parker
1971
- Cannon
- Bearcats! as Judge Juan O'Brien
- Man and Boy as Stretch
1970
- Soldier Blue as Col. Iverson
- Cotton Comes to Harlem as Capt. Bryce
- The Andersonville Trial as Ambrose Spencer
- The Animals as Sheriff Allan Pierce
1969
- Young Billy Young as Boone
- The Great Bank Robbery as Mayor Kincaid
- Heaven with a Gun as Ase Beck
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Brig. General Earl Rigney
- Lancer
- Here Come the Brides
- 5 Card Stud as Marshal Dana
- Day of the Evil Gun as Captain Jefferson Addis
- A Man Called Gannon as Capper
1967
- Mannix as George Blake
- Cimarron Strip
- Welcome to Hard Times as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
- A Covenant with Death as Dietrich
1966
- Felony Squad as Lt. Mike Reineck
- Tarzan
- The Rat Patrol as Major Indrus
- Occasional Wife
- The Fortune Cookie as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
- Namu, the Killer Whale as Joe Clausen
- Scalplock as Standish
1965
- The Big Valley as Matt Bentell
- The F.B.I. as Adam MacDonald
- The Legend of Jesse James as Moss Canby
- The Satan Bug as Agent Reagan
- The Hallelujah Trail as Sgt. Buell
- The Guide ... (Producer's Assistant)
1964
- For the Love of Willadean as Farmer Wills
1963
- The Fugitive as Justin Briggs
- The Outer Limits as Ebonite Interrogator
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Rankin
- The Lieutenant as Joe Hammond
- My Favorite Martian as Capt. Farrow
- The Great Adventure as Colonel Knowlton
- Redigo
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Luke Hunter
- The Virginian as Major Cass
- Sam Benedict as James Bradley
- Stoney Burke
- Ride the High Country as Elder Hammond
- Walk on the Wild Side as Preacher
- Geronimo as Jeremiah Burns
1961
- Ben Casey
- Dr. Kildare as Vernon Hackett
- 87th Precinct
- Cain's Hundred as Kenneth Drake
1960
- Thriller as Jacob Grant
- Route 66
- Psycho as California Charlie
- Outlaws
- Stagecoach West as Cole Dawson
- The Tall Man
- The Westerner as Leth Ritchie
- Peter Loves Mary as Bill Horton
- Harrigan and Son as Earl
- The Wackiest Ship in the Army as Sailor (uncredited)
1959
- Bonanza as Sam Masters
- The Twilight Zone as Goldsmith
- Rawhide as Captain James Rankin
- The Rebel as Ezra Taber
- Laramie
- Johnny Ringo as Cartwright
- The Detectives
- Adventures in Paradise as Benson
- Black Saddle as Clyde Wicker
- Law of the Plainsman as Clyde Santee
- Last Train from Gun Hill as Salesman
1958
- The Rifleman
- Peter Gunn
- Bat Masterson as Major Liam Mars
- Lawman as Hassayampa Edwards
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Deputy Sheriff Fix
- Bronco
- Sea Hunt
- Yancy Derringer as Wayne Raven
- Steve Canyon as Sergeant Bulla
- The True Story of Lynn Stuart as Doc
1957
- Perry Mason as George Andrews
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Paul Russell
- Trackdown
- Panic!
- The Walter Winchell File
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)