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