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