John Anderson

Also Known As: John R. Anderson

Biography: 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)).

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Clayton, Illinois, USA

Adult: No

Birthday: October 20, 1922

Age: 102 years old

Gender: Male

Deathday: August 07, 1992

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Known For:

Psycho
Heaven with a Gun
5 Card Stud
The Satan Bug
Eight Men Out
I-Man
Executive Action
Soldier Blue
Ride the High Country
Geronimo
Scalplock
Young Billy Young
24 Hour Psycho
Namu, the Killer Whale
Zoot Suit
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
The Animals
The Stepmother
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Manhunter
The Force of Evil
The Great Bank Robbery
Man and Boy
In Broad Daylight
Welcome to Hard Times
The Quest
Daddy
A Covenant with Death
Follow Your Heart
Last Train from Gun Hill
In Search of Historic Jesus
Heatwave!
The Dark Side of Innocence
Molly and Lawless John
Set This Town on Fire
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
A Man Called Gannon
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
The Fortune Cookie
Smokey and the Bandit II
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
The Last Hurrah
Day of the Evil Gun
The Andersonville Trial
Cotton Comes to Harlem
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
The Specialist
The Dove
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Babe Ruth
Never Too Young to Die
The Hallelujah Trail
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
Deadly Innocents
Counselor at Crime
Call to Danger
Walk on the Wild Side
American Harvest
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
The Deerslayer
Sins of the Past
Scorpion
Bed of Lies
For the Love of Willadean
Bridger
Out of the Blue
Dead Man on the Run
Hitched
The First Time