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
Soldier Blue
Col. Iverson
Ride the High Country
Elder Hammond
Geronimo
Jeremiah Burns
Scalplock
Standish
Young Billy Young
Boone
24 Hour Psycho
California Charlie (archive footage)
Namu, the Killer Whale
Joe Clausen
Zoot Suit
Judge F.W. Charles
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Col. John Lockport
The Animals
Sheriff Allan Pierce
The Stepmother
Inspector Darnezi
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Abraham Lincoln
Manhunter
Aaron Denver
The Force of Evil
Sheriff John Carrington
The Great Bank Robbery
Mayor Kincaid
Man and Boy
Stretch
In Broad Daylight
Wes Westerman
Welcome to Hard Times
Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
The Quest
Army Officer
Daddy
George Watson
A Covenant with Death
Dietrich
Follow Your Heart
Josh Lowe
Last Train from Gun Hill
Salesman
In Search of Historic Jesus
Caiaphas
Heatwave!
Toler
The Dark Side of Innocence
Stephen Hancock
Molly and Lawless John
Sheriff Marvin Parker
Set This Town on Fire
Henry Kealey
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
A Man Called Gannon
Capper
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Sailor (uncredited)
The Fortune Cookie
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Smokey and the Bandit II
Governor
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Stanley Willard
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Alexander Majors
The Last Hurrah
Amos Force
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
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
Babe Ruth
Judge Landis
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
American Harvest
Judge Meriweather
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
Patrick Breen
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
Hitched
Jomer Cruett
Shows
Lou Grant
M*A*S*H
General Collins
Cheyenne
Trackdown
Cain's Hundred
Kenneth Drake
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Kevin Uxbridge
Kung Fu
The Great Adventure
Colonel Knowlton
Little House on the Prairie
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Rankin
The F.B.I.
Adam MacDonald
Silver Spoons
Matlock
Hawaii Five-O
Brig. General Earl Rigney
Route 66
The Bob Newhart Show
The Twilight Zone
Capt. 'Skipper' Farver
The Twilight Zone
Goldsmith
The Twilight Zone
Deidrich
Mannix
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
MacGyver
Harry Jackson
Quantum Leap
Pat Knight
Hart to Hart
Gunsmoke
Ben Siple
Perry Mason
George Andrews
Lassie
Voyagers!
Cannon
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hunter
Winston Taggert
The Twilight Zone
Gabriel
Backstairs at the White House
Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dallas
Dr. Herbert Styles
Sea Hunt
The Tall Man
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Nicholson
87th Precinct
Sam Benedict
The Quest
Redigo
Outlaws
Felony Squad
Aaron's Way
Rawhide
Captain James Rankin
Have Gun, Will Travel
Cimarron Strip
Bret Maverick
The Fugitive
Justin Briggs
The Virginian
Major Cass
Lancer
Thriller
Jacob Grant
Yancy Derringer
Wayne Raven
Peter Gunn
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Matt Houston
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Paul Russell
The Big Valley
Matt Bentell
Here Come the Brides
Adventures in Paradise
Benson
Bronco
Tarzan
Occasional Wife
The Sixth Sense
Black Saddle
Clyde Wicker
The Rebel
Ezra Taber
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Deputy Sheriff Fix
The Rifleman
Bat Masterson
Major Liam Mars
Ben Casey
The Rat Patrol
Major Indrus
Laramie
Law of the Plainsman
Clyde Santee
The Detectives
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Fisk Madden
Heart of the City
Warren
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Roy Kelsey
The Lieutenant
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
Floyd Carrington
Stoney Burke
Johnny Ringo
Cartwright
The Legend of Jesse James
Moss Canby
Annie McGuire
Dr. Kildare
Vernon Hackett
The Walter Winchell File
The Outer Limits
Ebonite Interrogator
Inside Detective
The Fugitive
Ed Shrader
Panic!
Dream West
Bronk
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Marshal Cal Lazenby
North and South
William Hazard
Law of the Plainsman
Matthew Bannock
The Wonderful World of Disney
Sgt. Duncan MacGregor
Rawhide
Maj. Cantwell
The F.B.I.
Bollin
Gunsmoke
Delliver
Gunsmoke
Yermo
The Virginian
Adam Tercell
The Virginian
Jeremiah Chilton
The Virginian
Deputy Sheriff Sam Morrell
The Virginian
Sam McLain
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
Harrigan and Son
Earl
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
John Duncan
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
Scotty
Perry Mason
Bud Ferrand
The Rat Patrol
Gen. Owen Lansbury
Perry Mason
Dan O'Malley
Quincy, M.E.
Justin DeWilde
The Rifleman
Samuel Gibbs
Bearcats!
Judge Juan O'Brien
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Amos Force
The Virginian
Seth James
The Rockford Files
Gerald A. O'Malley
Jake and the Fatman
Ace Thompson
Murder, She Wrote
Andrew Dixon
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Virgil Earp
Kung Fu
Wray
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Attendant
Quincy, M.E.
Chief Frank Ollano
Emergency!
Captain Bob Roberts
My Favorite Martian
Capt. Farrow
The Incredible Hulk
Mike Calahan
Quincy, M.E.
Movie Director
Stagecoach West
Cole Dawson
The Westerner
Leth Ritchie
Bonanza
Sam Masters
The Rifleman
Owny Kincaid
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Luke Hunter
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Adam
Kung Fu
Benjamin Dundee
Bonanza
Gorman