Actor · Acting

John Anderson

Born 1922-10-20

Died 1992-08-07

📍 Clayton, Illinois, USA

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)).

Filmography 220

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)

as California Charlie (archive footage)

as Price Daniel, Sr.

as George Watson

as Judge Landis

In Broad Daylight

as Wes Westerman

Follow Your Heart

Deadly Innocents

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal

as George Dutton

as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Kevin Uxbridge

Jake and the Fatman

as Ace Thompson

American Harvest

as Judge Meriweather

as Noel G. Koch

Heart of the City

Never Too Young to Die

as Brig. Gen. Brooke

as Sam Chandler

North and South

as William Hazard

as Harry Jackson

Murder, She Wrote

as Andrew Dixon

as Winston Taggert

Sins of the Past

as Rev. Donald Randolph

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

as Stanley Willard

as Captain Stark

as General Frye

as Judge F.W. Charles

Out of the Blue

as T.V. Interviewer

Smokey and the Bandit II

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

as Col. Clayborn

In Search of Historic Jesus

Backstairs at the White House

as Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

as Patrick Breen

as Dr. Herbert Styles

The Last Hurrah

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

as Alexander Majors

The Incredible Hulk

as Mike Calahan

The Lincoln Conspiracy

as Abraham Lincoln

as Russell Grainger

The Force of Evil

as Sheriff John Carrington

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

as Floyd Carrington

as Justin DeWilde

as Chief Frank Ollano

as Movie Director

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

as President Andrew Jackson

The Dark Side of Innocence

as Stephen Hancock

as Army Officer

Death Among Friends

as Colonel Hecker

Dead Man on the Run

as Jason Monroe

The Rockford Files

as Gerald A. O'Malley

Little House on the Prairie

as Joshua Forbes

as Aaron Denver

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

as Col. John Lockport

Lincoln: Trial by Fire

as President Lincoln

Executive Action

Counselor at Crime

as Don Vito Albanese

as Jomer Cruett

as Edward McClure

Set This Town on Fire

as Henry Kealey

Molly and Lawless John

as Sheriff Marvin Parker

as Inspector Darnezi

as Jack Youngblood

as Benjamin Dundee

as General Collins

The Bob Newhart Show

as Captain Bob Roberts

The Sixth Sense

as Judge Juan O'Brien

as Col. Iverson

Cotton Comes to Harlem

The Andersonville Trial

as Ambrose Spencer

as Sheriff Allan Pierce

Young Billy Young

The Great Bank Robbery

as Mayor Kincaid

Heaven with a Gun

Here Come the Brides

as Brig. General Earl Rigney

as Marshal Dana

A Man Called Gannon

Day of the Evil Gun

as Captain Jefferson Addis

as George Blake

Welcome to Hard Times

as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple

A Covenant with Death

The Fortune Cookie

as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)

Occasional Wife

as Major Indrus

as Gen. Owen Lansbury

as Lt. Mike Reineck

Namu, the Killer Whale

as Adam MacDonald

as Matt Bentell

The Legend of Jesse James

The Hallelujah Trail

as Agent Reagan

For the Love of Willadean

as Farmer Wills

Kraft Suspense Theatre

My Favorite Martian

as Capt. Farrow

The Great Adventure

as Colonel Knowlton

as Justin Briggs

The Outer Limits

as Ebonite Interrogator

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Adam Tercell

as Jeremiah Chilton

as Deputy Sheriff Sam Morrell

as James Bradley

Ride the High Country

as Elder Hammond

as Jeremiah Burns

Walk on the Wild Side

as Vernon Hackett

as Kenneth Drake

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

as Sailor (uncredited)

Harrigan and Son

Stagecoach West

as Leth Ritchie

as California Charlie

Adventures in Paradise

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

as Capt. 'Skipper' Farver

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

Law of the Plainsman

as Clyde Santee

Law of the Plainsman

as Matthew Bannock

Law of the Plainsman

Last Train from Gun Hill

as Clyde Wicker

as Captain James Rankin

as Maj. Cantwell

as Major Liam Mars

as Hassayampa Edwards

Yancy Derringer

as Samuel Gibbs

as Owny Kincaid

as Sergeant Bulla

Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Deputy Sheriff Fix

The True Story of Lynn Stuart

The Walter Winchell File

as George Andrews

as Dan O'Malley

Have Gun, Will Travel

Have Gun, Will Travel

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

as Paul Russell

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Marshal Cal Lazenby

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Pa Gibbijohn

as Les McConnell

as Jess Fletcher

as Lemuel Cleary

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

The American Adventure

as Mark Twain / Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice)