John Anderson

Acting

Born Oct 20, 1922

From Clayton, Illinois, USA

Died Aug 07, 1992

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)).

John Anderson

Known For

Psycho

Smokey and the Bandit II

Last Train from Gun Hill

Soldier Blue

Ride the High Country

Eight Men Out

Walk on the Wild Side

The Hallelujah Trail

Geronimo

The Fortune Cookie

Filmography — Acting

Psycho

Smokey and the Bandit II

Last Train from Gun Hill

Soldier Blue

Ride the High Country

Eight Men Out

Walk on the Wild Side

The Hallelujah Trail

Geronimo

The Fortune Cookie

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

Cotton Comes to Harlem

5 Card Stud

Heaven with a Gun

Young Billy Young

The Satan Bug

The Lincoln Conspiracy

Daddy

Out of the Blue

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Executive Action

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

Sins of the Past

Zoot Suit

A Covenant with Death

Never Too Young to Die

The Dove

A Man Called Gannon

Heatwave!

Day of the Evil Gun

Hitched

The Great Bank Robbery

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

Counselor at Crime

Namu, the Killer Whale

Welcome to Hard Times

I-Man

Follow Your Heart

The Stepmother

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal

The Deerslayer

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

24 Hour Psycho

Babe Ruth

Manhunter

Man and Boy

The Animals

In Broad Daylight

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

The Andersonville Trial

Molly and Lawless John

Bed of Lies

The First Time

Set This Town on Fire

The Quest

The Last Hurrah

Bridger

The Dark Side of Innocence

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

Scalplock

Call to Danger

Rebel Range

The True Story of Lynn Stuart

In Search of Historic Jesus

American Harvest

For the Love of Willadean

Deadly Innocents