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
California Charlie
Psycho
Ase Beck
Heaven with a Gun
Marshal Dana
5 Card Stud
Agent Reagan
The Satan Bug
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Eight Men Out
Holbrook
I-Man
Halliday
Executive Action
Col. Iverson
Soldier Blue
Elder Hammond
Ride the High Country
Jeremiah Burns
Geronimo
Standish
Scalplock
Boone
Young Billy Young
California Charlie (archive footage)
24 Hour Psycho
Joe Clausen
Namu, the Killer Whale
Judge F.W. Charles
Zoot Suit
Col. John Lockport
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Sheriff Allan Pierce
The Animals
Inspector Darnezi
The Stepmother
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Aaron Denver
Manhunter
Sheriff John Carrington
The Force of Evil
Mayor Kincaid
The Great Bank Robbery
Stretch
Man and Boy
Wes Westerman
In Broad Daylight
Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
Welcome to Hard Times
Army Officer
The Quest
George Watson
Daddy
Dietrich
A Covenant with Death
Josh Lowe
Follow Your Heart
Salesman
Last Train from Gun Hill
Caiaphas
In Search of Historic Jesus
Toler
Heatwave!
Stephen Hancock
The Dark Side of Innocence
Sheriff Marvin Parker
Molly and Lawless John
Henry Kealey
Set This Town on Fire
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Capper
A Man Called Gannon
Sailor (uncredited)
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
The Fortune Cookie
Governor
Smokey and the Bandit II
Stanley Willard
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Alexander Majors
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Amos Force
The Last Hurrah
Captain Jefferson Addis
Day of the Evil Gun
Ambrose Spencer
The Andersonville Trial
Capt. Bryce
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Doc
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
Pike Smith
The Specialist
Mike Turk
The Dove
Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Judge Landis
Babe Ruth
Arliss
Never Too Young to Die
Sgt. Buell
The Hallelujah Trail
George Dutton
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
Gus
Deadly Innocents
Don Vito Albanese
Il consigliori
Edward McClure
Call to Danger
Preacher
Walk on the Wild Side
Judge Meriweather
American Harvest
Patrick Breen
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
Hutter
The Deerslayer
Rev. Donald Randolph
Sins of the Past
Noel G. Koch
Scorpion
Price Daniel, Sr.
Bed of Lies
Farmer Wills
For the Love of Willadean
President Andrew Jackson
Bridger
T.V. Interviewer
Out of the Blue
Jason Monroe
Dead Man on the Run
Jomer Cruett
Hitched
Paul Cooper
The First Time
Fisk Madden
Rebel Range
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
71
Gender
Male
Birthday
1922-10-20
Place of Birth
Clayton, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
John R. Anderson