John Anderson

Birthday:

10/20/1922

Place of birth:

Clayton, Illinois, USA:

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)).



Credits

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (1994)
Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
24 Hour Psycho (1993)
California Charlie (archive footage)
Bed of Lies (1992)
Price Daniel, Sr.
Daddy (1991)
George Watson
Babe Ruth (1991)
Judge Landis
In Broad Daylight (1991)
Wes Westerman
Follow Your Heart (1990)
Josh Lowe
Deadly Innocents (1989)
Gus
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal (1989)
George Dutton
Eight Men Out (1988)
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
American Harvest (1987)
Judge Meriweather
Scorpion (1986)
Noel G. Koch
Never Too Young to Die (1986)
Arliss
I-Man (1986)
Holbrook
Sins of the Past (1984)
Rev. Donald Randolph
Missing Children: A Mother's Story (1982)
Stanley Willard
Zoot Suit (1981)
Judge F.W. Charles
Out of the Blue (1981)
T.V. Interviewer
Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
Governor
In Search of Historic Jesus (1979)
Caiaphas
The Deerslayer (1978)
Hutter
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978)
Patrick Breen
The Last Hurrah (1977)
Amos Force
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion (1977)
Alexander Majors
The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)
Abraham Lincoln
The Force of Evil (1977)
Sheriff John Carrington
Bridger (1976)
President Andrew Jackson
The Dark Side of Innocence (1976)
Stephen Hancock
The Quest (1976)
Army Officer
The Specialist (1975)
Pike Smith
Dead Man on the Run (1975)
Jason Monroe
The Dove (1974)
Mike Turk
Manhunter (1974)
Aaron Denver
Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
Col. John Lockport
Heatwave! (1974)
Toler
Executive Action (1973)
Halliday
Counselor at Crime (1973)
Don Vito Albanese
Call to Danger (1973)
Set This Town on Fire (1973)
Henry Kealey
Molly and Lawless John (1972)
Sheriff Marvin Parker
The Stepmother (1972)
Inspector Darnezi
Man and Boy (1971)
Stretch
Soldier Blue (1970)
Col. Iverson
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Capt. Bryce
The Andersonville Trial (1970)
Ambrose Spencer
The Animals (1970)
Sheriff Allan Pierce
Young Billy Young (1969)
Boone
The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
Mayor Kincaid
Heaven with a Gun (1969)
Ase Beck
5 Card Stud (1968)
Marshal Dana
A Man Called Gannon (1968)
Capper
Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
Captain Jefferson Addis
Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
A Covenant with Death (1967)
Dietrich
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Namu, the Killer Whale (1966)
Joe Clausen
Scalplock (1966)
Standish
The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
Sgt. Buell
The Satan Bug (1965)
Agent Reagan
For the Love of Willadean (1964)
Farmer Wills
Ride the High Country (1962)
Elder Hammond
Geronimo (1962)
Jeremiah Burns
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
Preacher
The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)
Sailor (uncredited)
Psycho (1960)
California Charlie
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
Salesman
The True Story of Lynn Stuart (1958)
Doc
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
John, 316 (2021)
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