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