John Anderson

Known for ActingBorn 1922-10-20Died 1992-08-07Clayton, Illinois, USA

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)).Read more

Movies & web series

Follow Your Heart

Bridger

The Great Adventure

Harrigan and Son

American Harvest

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

The Dark Side of Innocence

Call to Danger

Star Trek: The Next Generation

The Quest

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Twilight Zone

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

Psycho

Quantum Leap

Little House on the Prairie

Occasional Wife

M*A*S*H

Deadly Innocents

Emergency!

Panic!

MacGyver

The Outer Limits

Kung Fu

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

87th Precinct

Annie McGuire

Murder, She Wrote

Heart of the City

Voyagers!

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

North and South

The Rockford Files

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

Perry Mason

Quincy, M.E.

The Bob Newhart Show

Dead Man on the Run

Bonanza

The Walter Winchell File

Lou Grant

Hitched

Matlock

The Incredible Hulk

Petrocelli

Hunter

The Fugitive

Law of the Plainsman

MAS*H