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

The Fugitive

The Fugitive

Perry Mason

Perry Mason

Perry Mason

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Murder, She Wrote

Bonanza

All Movies (73)

• Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone1994 · as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
• Bed of Lies1992 · as Price Daniel, Sr.
• Daddy1991 · as George Watson
• Babe Ruth1991 · as Judge Landis
• In Broad Daylight1991 · as Wes Westerman
• Follow Your Heart1990 · as Josh Lowe
• Deadly Innocents1989 · as Gus
• Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal1989 · as George Dutton
• Eight Men Out1988 · as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
• American Harvest1987 · as Judge Meriweather
• Scorpion1986 · as Noel G. Koch
• Never Too Young to Die1986 · as Arliss
• I-Man1986 · as Holbrook
• Sins of the Past1984 · as Rev. Donald Randolph
• Missing Children: A Mother's Story1982 · as Stanley Willard
• The First Time1982 · as Paul Cooper
• Zoot Suit1981 · as Judge F.W. Charles
• Out of the Blue1981 · as T.V. Interviewer
• Smokey and the Bandit II1980 · as Governor
• In Search of Historic Jesus1979 · as Caiaphas
• The Deerslayer1978 · as Hutter
• Donner Pass: The Road to Survival1978 · as Patrick Breen
• The Last Hurrah1977 · as Amos Force
• Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion1977 · as Alexander Majors
• The Lincoln Conspiracy1977 · as Abraham Lincoln
• The Force of Evil1977 · as Sheriff John Carrington
• Bridger1976 · as President Andrew Jackson
• The Dark Side of Innocence1976 · as Stephen Hancock
• The Quest1976 · as Army Officer
• Death Among Friends1975 · as Capt. Lewis
• The Specialist1975 · as Pike Smith
• Dead Man on the Run1975 · as Jason Monroe
• The Dove1974 · as Mike Turk
• Manhunter1974 · as Aaron Denver
• Smile Jenny, You're Dead1974 · as Col. John Lockport
• Heatwave!1974 · as Toler
• Lincoln: Trial by Fire1974 · as President Lincoln
• Executive Action1973 · as Halliday
• Counselor at Crime1973 · as Don Vito Albanese
• Hitched1973 · as Jomer Cruett
• Call to Danger1973 · as Edward McClure
• Set This Town on Fire1973 · as Henry Kealey
• Molly and Lawless John1972 · as Sheriff Marvin Parker
• The Stepmother1972 · as Inspector Darnezi
• Man and Boy1971 · as Stretch
• Soldier Blue1970 · as Col. Iverson
• Cotton Comes to Harlem1970 · as Capt. Bryce
• The Andersonville Trial1970 · as Ambrose Spencer
• The Animals1970 · as Sheriff Allan Pierce
• Young Billy Young1969 · as Boone
• The Great Bank Robbery1969 · as Mayor Kincaid
• Heaven with a Gun1969 · as Ase Beck
• 5 Card Stud1968 · as Marshal Dana
• A Man Called Gannon1968 · as Capper
• Day of the Evil Gun1968 · as Captain Jefferson Addis
• Welcome to Hard Times1967 · as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
• A Covenant with Death1967 · as Dietrich
• The Fortune Cookie1966 · as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
• Namu, the Killer Whale1966 · as Joe Clausen
• Scalplock1966 · as Standish
• The Hallelujah Trail1965 · as Sgt. Buell
• The Satan Bug1965 · as Agent Reagan
• For the Love of Willadean1964 · as Farmer Wills
• Ride the High Country1962 · as Elder Hammond
• Geronimo1962 · as Jeremiah Burns
• Walk on the Wild Side1962 · as Preacher
• The Wackiest Ship in the Army1960 · as Sailor (uncredited)
• Psycho1960 · as California Charlie
• Last Train from Gun Hill1959 · as Salesman
• The True Story of Lynn Stuart1958 · as Doc
• The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel1951
• Rebel Range— · as Fisk Madden
• The American Adventure— · as Mark Twain / Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice)

All TV Shows (152)

• Quantum Leap1989 · as Pat Knight
• Annie McGuire1988
• Aaron's Way1988
• Star Trek: The Next Generation1987 · as Kevin Uxbridge
• Jake and the Fatman1987 · as Ace Thompson
• Heart of the City1986 · as Warren
• Dream West1986 · as Brig. Gen. Brooke
• Matlock1986 · as Sam Chandler
• North and South1985 · as William Hazard
• MacGyver1985 · as Harry Jackson
• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Andrew Dixon
• Hunter1984 · as Winston Taggert
• Scarecrow and Mrs. King1983
• Voyagers!1982
• Matt Houston1982
• Silver Spoons1982 · as Captain Stark
• Bret Maverick1981 · as General Frye
• Tenspeed and Brown Shoe1980
• The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo1979 · as Col. Clayborn
• Hart to Hart1979
• Backstairs at the White House1979 · as Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• $weepstake$1979 · as Thomas Singer
• Dallas1978 · as Dr. Herbert Styles
• The Incredible Hulk1977 · as Mike Calahan
• Lou Grant1977 · as Russell Grainger
• Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected1977 · as Floyd Carrington
• Quincy, M.E.1976 · as Justin DeWilde
• Quincy, M.E.1976 · as Chief Frank Ollano
• Quincy, M.E.1976 · as Movie Director
• Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II1976 · as Scotty
• The Quest1976
• Bronk1975 · as Colonel Hecker
• The Rockford Files1974 · as Gerald A. O'Malley
• Little House on the Prairie1974 · as Amos Pike
• Petrocelli1974 · as Joshua Forbes
• Kung Fu1972 · as Jack Youngblood
• Kung Fu1972 · as Wray
• Kung Fu1972 · as Benjamin Dundee
• M*A*S*H1972 · as General Collins
• The Bob Newhart Show1972 · as Mr. Charlie Colton
• Emergency!1972 · as Captain Bob Roberts
• The Sixth Sense1972
• Bearcats!1971 · as Judge Juan O'Brien
• Cannon1971
• Here Come the Brides1968
• Lancer1968
• Hawaii Five-O1968 · as Brig. General Earl Rigney
• Mannix1967 · as George Blake
• Cimarron Strip1967
• Occasional Wife1966
• The Rat Patrol1966 · as Major Indrus
• The Rat Patrol1966 · as Gen. Owen Lansbury
• Felony Squad1966 · as Lt. Mike Reineck
• Tarzan1966
• The F.B.I.1965 · as Adam MacDonald
• The F.B.I.1965 · as Bollin
• The Big Valley1965 · as Matt Bentell
• The Legend of Jesse James1965 · as Moss Canby
• Kraft Suspense Theatre1963 · as Rankin
• My Favorite Martian1963 · as Capt. Farrow
• The Great Adventure1963 · as Colonel Knowlton
• Redigo1963
• The Fugitive1963 · as Justin Briggs
• The Fugitive1963 · as Ed Shrader
• The Outer Limits1963 · as Ebonite Interrogator
• The Lieutenant1963 · as Joe Hammond
• Stoney Burke1962
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962 · as Luke Hunter
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962 · as Adam
• The Virginian1962 · as Major Cass
• The Virginian1962 · as Adam Tercell
• The Virginian1962 · as Jeremiah Chilton
• The Virginian1962 · as Deputy Sheriff Sam Morrell
• The Virginian1962 · as Sam McLain
• The Virginian1962 · as Seth James
• Sam Benedict1962 · as James Bradley
• Sam Benedict1962 · as Jim Bradley
• Ben Casey1961
• Dr. Kildare1961 · as Vernon Hackett
• 87th Precinct1961
• Cain's Hundred1961 · as Kenneth Drake
• Harrigan and Son1960 · as Earl
• Peter Loves Mary1960 · as Bill Horton
• Route 661960
• Stagecoach West1960 · as Cole Dawson
• The Westerner1960 · as Leth Ritchie
• Outlaws1960
• Thriller1960 · as Jacob Grant
• The Tall Man1960
• The Detectives1959
• Adventures in Paradise1959 · as Benson
• The Rebel1959 · as Ezra Taber
• The Twilight Zone1959 · as Capt. 'Skipper' Farver
• The Twilight Zone1959 · as Goldsmith
• The Twilight Zone1959 · as Deidrich
• The Twilight Zone1959 · as Gabriel
• Johnny Ringo1959 · as Cartwright
• Law of the Plainsman1959 · as Clyde Santee
• Law of the Plainsman1959 · as Matthew Bannock
• Law of the Plainsman1959 · as Jeb Wicken
• Laramie1959
• Bonanza1959 · as Sam Masters
• Bonanza1959 · as Gorman
• Bonanza1959 · as Tulsa Weems
• Black Saddle1959 · as Clyde Wicker
• Rawhide1959 · as Captain James Rankin
• Rawhide1959 · as Maj. Cantwell
• Bat Masterson1958 · as Major Liam Mars
• Lawman1958 · as Hassayampa Edwards
• Yancy Derringer1958 · as Wayne Raven
• The Rifleman1958
• The Rifleman1958 · as Samuel Gibbs
• The Rifleman1958 · as Owny Kincaid
• Bronco1958
• Peter Gunn1958
• Steve Canyon1958 · as Sergeant Bulla
• Wanted: Dead or Alive1958 · as Deputy Sheriff Fix
• Sea Hunt1958
• Trackdown1957
• Trackdown1957 · as McCall
• The Walter Winchell File1957
• Perry Mason1957 · as George Andrews
• Perry Mason1957 · as Bud Ferrand
• Perry Mason1957 · as Dan O'Malley
• Have Gun, Will Travel1957
• Have Gun, Will Travel1957 · as Fred Cooley
• Richard Diamond, Private Detective1957 · as Paul Russell
• Panic!1957
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956 · as Fisk Madden
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956 · as Roy Kelsey
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956 · as Marshal Cal Lazenby
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956 · as John Duncan
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955 · as Nicholson
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955 · as Attendant
• Cheyenne1955
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Ben Siple
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Delliver
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Yermo
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Cheevers
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Pa Gibbijohn
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Les McConnell
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Roberts
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Jess Fletcher
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Amos Sadler
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Lemuel Cleary
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Adam Kimbro
• The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp1955
• The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp1955 · as Virgil Earp
• Lassie1954
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Amos Force
• Inside Detective1950 · as Theater manager