John Anderson
ActingAlso 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)).
Movies
(73 total)
Psycho
as California Charlie
The Fortune Cookie
as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Smokey and the Bandit II
as Governor
Eight Men Out
as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Ride the High Country
as Elder Hammond
Soldier Blue
as Col. Iverson
Last Train from Gun Hill
as Salesman
The Hallelujah Trail
as Sgt. Buell
Out of the Blue
as T.V. Interviewer
5 Card Stud
as Marshal Dana
Walk on the Wild Side
as Preacher
Cotton Comes to Harlem
as Capt. Bryce
The Satan Bug
as Agent Reagan
Never Too Young to Die
as Arliss
Executive Action
as Halliday
Geronimo
as Jeremiah Burns
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
as Sailor (uncredited)
Young Billy Young
as Boone
Day of the Evil Gun
as Captain Jefferson Addis
TV Shows
(151 total)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Kevin Uxbridge
The Twilight Zone
as Capt. 'Skipper' Farver
The Twilight Zone
as Goldsmith
The Twilight Zone
as Deidrich
The Twilight Zone
as Gabriel
MacGyver
as Harry Jackson
Quantum Leap
as Pat Knight
M*A*S*H
as General Collins
The Incredible Hulk
as Mike Calahan
Bonanza
as Sam Masters
Bonanza
as Gorman
Murder, She Wrote
as Andrew Dixon
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Nicholson
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Attendant
Kung Fu
as Jack Youngblood
Kung Fu
as Wray
Kung Fu
as Benjamin Dundee
Dallas
as Dr. Herbert Styles
North and South
as William Hazard