John Anderson

John Anderson

Birthday: 1922-10-20

Deathday: 1992-08-07

Place of birth: Clayton, Illinois, USA

Also known as: John R. Anderson

imdb_id: nm0026930

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)).

Played in movies:

The Quest

Score: 10.0

Psycho

Score: 8.4

Deadly Innocents

Score: 8.0

The Fortune Cookie

Score: 7.1

Last Train from Gun Hill

Score: 7.1

Ride the High Country

Score: 7.0

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

Score: 7.0

Eight Men Out

Score: 6.9

Out of the Blue

Score: 6.9

Soldier Blue

Score: 6.8

The Andersonville Trial

Score: 6.7

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

Score: 6.7

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

Score: 6.7

Walk on the Wild Side

Score: 6.5

Manhunter

Score: 6.5

Scalplock

Score: 6.5

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

Score: 6.5

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

Score: 6.4

Executive Action

Score: 6.4

The Dove

Score: 6.3

The True Story of Lynn Stuart

Score: 6.3

The Great Bank Robbery

Score: 6.3

Zoot Suit

Score: 6.3

5 Card Stud

Score: 6.2

The Hallelujah Trail

Score: 6.1

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Score: 6.1

Day of the Evil Gun

Score: 6.1

The Satan Bug

Score: 6.1

Hitched

Score: 6.0

Dead Man on the Run

Score: 6.0

For the Love of Willadean

Score: 6.0

Babe Ruth

Score: 6.0

Man and Boy

Score: 6.0

The Force of Evil

Score: 6.0

Young Billy Young

Score: 6.0

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Score: 5.9

Heatwave!

Score: 5.9

In Broad Daylight

Score: 5.7

Smokey and the Bandit II

Score: 5.6

The Lincoln Conspiracy

Score: 5.6

Heaven with a Gun

Score: 5.4

Geronimo

Score: 5.4

Counselor at Crime

Score: 5.3

Welcome to Hard Times

Score: 5.1

Bed of Lies

Score: 5.0

The Deerslayer

Score: 5.0

I-Man

Score: 5.0

A Covenant with Death

Score: 4.7

Namu, the Killer Whale

Score: 4.6

Never Too Young to Die

Score: 4.5

Daddy

Score: 4.4

In Search of Historic Jesus

Score: 4.3

A Man Called Gannon

Score: 4.2

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal

Score: 4.2

The First Time

Score: 4.0

Sins of the Past

Score: 4.0

24 Hour Psycho

Score: 4.0

Scorpion

Score: 3.9

The Stepmother

Score: 3.8

The Animals

Score: 3.5

The Specialist

Score: 3.0

Molly and Lawless John

Score: 2.8

Death Among Friends

Score: 2.2

Lincoln: Trial by Fire

Score: 0.0

Hang the Heart High

Score: 0.0

Rebel Range

Score: 0.0

Bridger

Score: 0.0

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

Score: 0.0

American Harvest

Score: 0.0

Call to Danger

Score: 0.0

The Last Hurrah

Score: 0.0

Set This Town on Fire

Score: 0.0

The Dark Side of Innocence

Score: 0.0

Follow Your Heart

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Score: 8.4

Quantum Leap

Score: 8.0

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.9

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.9

Little House on the Prairie

Score: 7.9

M*A*S*H

Score: 7.9

Emergency!

Score: 7.8

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.8

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

MacGyver

Score: 7.7

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

The Rockford Files

Score: 7.6

Voyagers!

Score: 7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

Steve Canyon

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Occasional Wife

Score: 7.5

87th Precinct

Score: 7.5

The Bob Newhart Show

Score: 7.5

North and South

Score: 7.4

Lou Grant

Score: 7.3

The Incredible Hulk

Score: 7.3

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.3

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.3

Rawhide

Score: 7.2

Rawhide

Score: 7.2

The Rat Patrol

Score: 7.2

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

The Rat Patrol

Score: 7.2

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

Petrocelli

Score: 7.2

Matlock

Score: 7.1

Hunter

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

The Rifleman

Score: 7.1

The Rifleman

Score: 7.1

The Rifleman

Score: 7.1

Hart to Hart

Score: 6.9

Dallas

Score: 6.8

The Westerner

Score: 6.8

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Score: 6.8

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Score: 6.8

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

Score: 6.8

Mannix

Score: 6.7

Tarzan

Score: 6.7

Laramie

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Thriller

Score: 6.6

Sea Hunt

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Cannon

Score: 6.6

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Score: 6.4

Felony Squad

Score: 6.4

Trackdown

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

Peter Gunn

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

The Quest

Score: 6.4

Trackdown

Score: 6.4

Here Come the Brides

Score: 6.3

The Tall Man

Score: 6.3

Route 66

Score: 6.3

Silver Spoons

Score: 6.3

Bronk

Score: 6.2

Jake and the Fatman

Score: 6.2

Bearcats!

Score: 6.2

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Score: 6.2

Matt Houston

Score: 6.2

Outlaws

Score: 6.2

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

The Detectives

Score: 6.1

Lassie

Score: 6.1

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

Cheyenne

Score: 6.0

Sam Benedict

Score: 6.0

The Lieutenant

Score: 6.0

Sam Benedict

Score: 6.0

Stagecoach West

Score: 6.0

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 6.0

Law of the Plainsman

Score: 6.0

Law of the Plainsman

Score: 6.0

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 6.0

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

Score: 6.0

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 6.0

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 6.0

Law of the Plainsman

Score: 6.0

Black Saddle

Score: 6.0

Yancy Derringer

Score: 6.0

My Favorite Martian

Score: 5.9

The Sixth Sense

Score: 5.9

Backstairs at the White House

Score: 5.9

Bronco

Score: 5.9

Johnny Ringo

Score: 5.7

Stoney Burke

Score: 5.7

Adventures in Paradise

Score: 5.7

Lawman

Score: 5.6

Ben Casey

Score: 5.6

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

Cimarron Strip

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.4

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.4

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Score: 5.3

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

Score: 5.1

Peter Loves Mary

Score: 5.0

Bret Maverick

Score: 5.0

Dream West

Score: 5.0

The Walter Winchell File

Score: 5.0

Annie McGuire

Score: 5.0

Heart of the City

Score: 5.0

Aaron's Way

Score: 5.0

Redigo

Score: 5.0

The Legend of Jesse James

Score: 4.8

Lancer

Score: 4.7

Cain's Hundred

Score: 4.7

The Rebel

Score: 4.7

$weepstake$

Score: 0.0

Inside Detective

Score: 0.0

Harrigan and Son

Score: 0.0

Panic!

Score: 0.0

The Great Adventure

Score: 0.0