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