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
Psycho
California Charlie
Heaven with a Gun
Ase Beck
5 Card Stud
Marshal Dana
The Satan Bug
Agent Reagan
Eight Men Out
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
I-Man
Holbrook
Executive Action
Halliday
Ride the High Country
Elder Hammond
Soldier Blue
Col. Iverson
Geronimo
Jeremiah Burns
Young Billy Young
Boone
Namu, the Killer Whale
Joe Clausen
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Col. John Lockport
Zoot Suit
Judge F.W. Charles
The Animals
Sheriff Allan Pierce
The Stepmother
Inspector Darnezi
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Abraham Lincoln
The Great Bank Robbery
Mayor Kincaid
Man and Boy
Stretch
In Broad Daylight
Wes Westerman
Welcome to Hard Times
Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
Daddy
George Watson
A Covenant with Death
Dietrich
Last Train from Gun Hill
Salesman
Heatwave!
Toler
In Search of Historic Jesus
Caiaphas
A Man Called Gannon
Capper
Smokey and the Bandit II
Governor
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Stanley Willard
The Last Hurrah
Amos Force
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Alexander Majors
Day of the Evil Gun
Captain Jefferson Addis
The Andersonville Trial
Ambrose Spencer
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Capt. Bryce
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
Doc
The Specialist
Pike Smith
The Dove
Mike Turk
Molly and Lawless John
Sheriff Marvin Parker
Babe Ruth
Judge Landis
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
Never Too Young to Die
Arliss
The Hallelujah Trail
Sgt. Buell
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
George Dutton
Deadly Innocents
Gus
Counselor at Crime
Don Vito Albanese
Call to Danger
Walk on the Wild Side
Preacher
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
Patrick Breen
American Harvest
Judge Meriweather
The Deerslayer
Hutter
Sins of the Past
Rev. Donald Randolph
Scorpion
Noel G. Koch
Bed of Lies
Price Daniel, Sr.
For the Love of Willadean
Farmer Wills
Bridger
President Andrew Jackson
Out of the Blue
T.V. Interviewer
Dead Man on the Run
Jason Monroe
Scalplock
Standish
Manhunter
Aaron Denver
The Dark Side of Innocence
Stephen Hancock
Set This Town on Fire
Henry Kealey
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Sailor (uncredited)
The Fortune Cookie
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
24 Hour Psycho
California Charlie (archive footage)
The Force of Evil
Sheriff John Carrington
The Quest
Army Officer
Follow Your Heart
Josh Lowe
Shows
Trackdown
The Bob Newhart Show
Silver Spoons
Route 66
The F.B.I.
Adam MacDonald
MacGyver
Harry Jackson
Gunsmoke
Ben Siple
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sea Hunt
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Nicholson
Voyagers!
Outlaws
Aaron's Way
The Fugitive
Justin Briggs
The Virginian
Major Cass
Matt Houston
Here Come the Brides
Tarzan
Have Gun, Will Travel
Rawhide
Captain James Rankin
The Big Valley
Matt Bentell
Bronco
Black Saddle
Clyde Wicker
The Rebel
Ezra Taber
The Rifleman
Stoney Burke
Johnny Ringo
Cartwright
The Detectives
Cain's Hundred
Kenneth Drake
Lou Grant
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Kevin Uxbridge
M*A*S*H
General Collins
Cheyenne
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
The Great Adventure
Colonel Knowlton
Kung Fu
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Rankin
Little House on the Prairie
Matlock
Hawaii Five-O
Brig. General Earl Rigney
Mannix
Hart to Hart
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Quantum Leap
Pat Knight
Perry Mason
George Andrews
Cannon
Hunter
Winston Taggert
Backstairs at the White House
Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lassie
The Twilight Zone
Gabriel
The Tall Man
87th Precinct
Sam Benedict
The Quest
Redigo
Lancer
Peter Gunn
Occasional Wife
Felony Squad
Yancy Derringer
Wayne Raven
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Paul Russell
Adventures in Paradise
Benson
Cimarron Strip
Bret Maverick
Thriller
Jacob Grant
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Sixth Sense
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Deputy Sheriff Fix
Bat Masterson
Major Liam Mars
The Rat Patrol
Major Indrus
Ben Casey
Laramie
Heart of the City
The Lieutenant
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Roy Kelsey
Law of the Plainsman
Clyde Santee
The Legend of Jesse James
Moss Canby
Dr. Kildare
Vernon Hackett
Annie McGuire
The Walter Winchell File
The Outer Limits
Ebonite Interrogator
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
Floyd Carrington
Inside Detective
Panic!
Dream West
Bronk
Bearcats!
Judge Juan O'Brien
The Rockford Files
Gerald A. O'Malley
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Adam
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Luke Hunter
The Twilight Zone
Capt. 'Skipper' Farver
The Twilight Zone
Deidrich
The Twilight Zone
Goldsmith
Dallas
Dr. Herbert Styles
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Fisk Madden
The Fugitive
Ed Shrader
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Marshal Cal Lazenby
Law of the Plainsman
Matthew Bannock
The F.B.I.
Bollin
The Virginian
Adam Tercell
The Virginian
Jeremiah Chilton
The Virginian
Deputy Sheriff Sam Morrell
The Virginian
Sam McLain
Rawhide
Maj. Cantwell
Gunsmoke
Yermo
Gunsmoke
Delliver
Law of the Plainsman
Jeb Wicken
Gunsmoke
Cheevers
Gunsmoke
Pa Gibbijohn
Gunsmoke
Les McConnell
Gunsmoke
Roberts
Gunsmoke
Jess Fletcher
Gunsmoke
Amos Sadler
Gunsmoke
Lemuel Cleary
Gunsmoke
Adam Kimbro
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
John Duncan
The Rat Patrol
Gen. Owen Lansbury
Perry Mason
Bud Ferrand
Perry Mason
Dan O'Malley
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Amos Force
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Attendant
The Incredible Hulk
Mike Calahan
The Westerner
Leth Ritchie
North and South
William Hazard
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Sgt. Duncan MacGregor
Harrigan and Son
Earl
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
Scotty
Quincy, M.E.
Justin DeWilde
The Rifleman
Samuel Gibbs
Jake and the Fatman
Ace Thompson
The Virginian
Seth James
Murder, She Wrote
Andrew Dixon
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Virgil Earp
Kung Fu
Wray
Quincy, M.E.
Chief Frank Ollano
Emergency!
Captain Bob Roberts
My Favorite Martian
Capt. Farrow
Quincy, M.E.
Movie Director
Stagecoach West
Cole Dawson