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