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John Anderson

1 FOLLOWER • 80 CREDITS • OCT 20, 1922 - AUG 7, 1992 • 69

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)).

Overview

Known For

Gunsmoke

Murder, She Wrote

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Have Gun, Will Travel

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Dallas

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Rockford Files

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Little House on the Prairie

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Bob Newhart Show

M*A*S*H

Jake and the Fatman

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

Backstairs at the White House

Last Train from Gun Hill

Psycho

5 Card Stud

For the Love of Willadean

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