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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-10-20 (102 years old)

Place of Birth

Clayton, Illinois, USA

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)).

Known For

Acting

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

In Broad Daylight as Wes Westerman
Daddy as George Watson
Babe Ruth as Judge Landis

1990

Follow Your Heart as Josh Lowe

1989

Quantum Leap as Pat Knight

1988

Eight Men Out as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis

1987

American Harvest as Judge Meriweather
Jake and the Fatman as Ace Thompson

1986

I-Man as Holbrook
Scorpion as Noel G. Koch

1985

MacGyver as Harry Jackson
North and South as William Hazard

1984

Sins of the Past as Rev. Donald Randolph
Hunter as Winston Taggert
Murder, She Wrote as Andrew Dixon

1983

1982

1981

Zoot Suit as Judge F.W. Charles
Out of the Blue as T.V. Interviewer
Bret Maverick as General Frye

1980

1979

Backstairs at the White House as Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1978

The Deerslayer as Hutter
Dallas as Dr. Herbert Styles

1977

The Lincoln Conspiracy as Abraham Lincoln
The Force of Evil as Sheriff John Carrington
The Last Hurrah as Amos Force
The Incredible Hulk as Mike Calahan
Lou Grant as Russell Grainger

1976

The Quest as Army Officer
The Dark Side of Innocence as Stephen Hancock
Bridger as President Andrew Jackson
Quincy, M.E. as Justin DeWilde
Quincy, M.E. as Chief Frank Ollano
Quincy, M.E. as Movie Director

1975

The Specialist as Pike Smith
Dead Man on the Run as Jason Monroe
Bronk as Colonel Hecker

1974

Smile Jenny, You're Dead as Col. John Lockport
Manhunter as Aaron Denver
Heatwave! as Toler
The Dove as Mike Turk
The Rockford Files as Gerald A. O'Malley
Petrocelli as Joshua Forbes

1973

Executive Action as Halliday
Set This Town on Fire as Henry Kealey
Counselor at Crime as Don Vito Albanese
Call to Danger as Edward McClure

1972

The Stepmother as Inspector Darnezi
Molly and Lawless John as Sheriff Marvin Parker
M*A*S*H as General Collins
Kung Fu as Wray
Emergency! as Captain Bob Roberts
Kung Fu as Benjamin Dundee

1971

Man and Boy as Stretch
Hitched as Jomer Cruett
Bearcats! as Judge Juan O'Brien

1970

Soldier Blue as Col. Iverson
The Animals as Sheriff Allan Pierce
The Andersonville Trial as Ambrose Spencer
Cotton Comes to Harlem as Capt. Bryce

1969

Heaven with a Gun as Ase Beck
The Great Bank Robbery as Mayor Kincaid

1968

5 Card Stud as Marshal Dana
Day of the Evil Gun as Captain Jefferson Addis
Hawaii Five-O as Brig. General Earl Rigney

1967

Welcome to Hard Times as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple

1966

Scalplock as Standish
Namu, the Killer Whale as Joe Clausen
The Fortune Cookie as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
The Rat Patrol as Major Indrus
The Rat Patrol as Gen. Owen Lansbury

1965

The Satan Bug as Agent Reagan
The Hallelujah Trail as Sgt. Buell
The F.B.I. as Adam MacDonald
The Big Valley as Matt Bentell
The F.B.I. as Bollin

1964

1963

The Great Adventure as Colonel Knowlton
The Fugitive as Justin Briggs
The Outer Limits as Ebonite Interrogator
The Fugitive as Ed Shrader
My Favorite Martian as Capt. Farrow

1962

Ride the High Country as Elder Hammond
Geronimo as Jeremiah Burns
The Virginian as Major Cass
The Virginian as Adam Tercell
The Virginian as Jeremiah Chilton
The Virginian as Deputy Sheriff Sam Morrell
The Virginian as Sam McLain
The Virginian as Seth James
Sam Benedict as James Bradley

1961

Cain's Hundred as Kenneth Drake
Dr. Kildare as Vernon Hackett

1960

Psycho as California Charlie
The Wackiest Ship in the Army as Sailor (uncredited)
Thriller as Jacob Grant
Stagecoach West as Cole Dawson
The Westerner as Leth Ritchie
Peter Loves Mary as Bill Horton

1959

The Twilight Zone as Goldsmith
The Twilight Zone as Capt. 'Skipper' Farver
The Twilight Zone as Deidrich
Rawhide as Captain James Rankin
Black Saddle as Clyde Wicker
The Rebel as Ezra Taber
Law of the Plainsman as Clyde Santee
Johnny Ringo as Cartwright
Law of the Plainsman as Matthew Bannock
Rawhide as Maj. Cantwell
Law of the Plainsman as Jeb Wicken
Bonanza as Sam Masters
Bonanza as Gorman

1958

Yancy Derringer as Wayne Raven
Wanted: Dead or Alive as Deputy Sheriff Fix
Bat Masterson as Major Liam Mars
The Rifleman as Samuel Gibbs
The Rifleman as Owny Kincaid

1957

Perry Mason as George Andrews
Perry Mason as Bud Ferrand
Perry Mason as Dan O'Malley
Trackdown as McCall

1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Marshal Cal Lazenby

1955

Gunsmoke as Ben Siple
Gunsmoke as Delliver
Gunsmoke as Yermo
Gunsmoke as Cheevers
Gunsmoke as Pa Gibbijohn
Gunsmoke as Les McConnell
Gunsmoke as Roberts
Gunsmoke as Jess Fletcher
Gunsmoke as Amos Sadler
Gunsmoke as Lemuel Cleary
Gunsmoke as Adam Kimbro

1954

The Wonderful World of Disney as Sgt. Duncan MacGregor

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Amos Force

1950

Inside Detective as Theater manager

Writing

2021

John, 316 as Story Editor

Directing

1946

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball as Assistant Director