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: 7.2

Last Train from Gun Hill

Score: 7.1

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

Score: 7.0

Ride the High Country

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: 6.6

Manhunter

Score: 6.5

Scalplock

Score: 6.5

Executive Action

Score: 6.4

The Dove

Score: 6.4

The True Story of Lynn Stuart

Score: 6.3

The Great Bank Robbery

Score: 6.3

5 Card Stud

Score: 6.2

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

Score: 6.2

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Score: 6.2

Day of the Evil Gun

Score: 6.1

Zoot Suit

Score: 6.1

The Hallelujah Trail

Score: 6.1

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

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

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Score: 5.9

Heatwave!

Score: 5.9

Young Billy Young

Score: 5.9

In Broad Daylight

Score: 5.7

Counselor at Crime

Score: 5.6

The Lincoln Conspiracy

Score: 5.6

Heaven with a Gun

Score: 5.6

Smokey and the Bandit II

Score: 5.5

Geronimo

Score: 5.4

Welcome to Hard Times

Score: 5.0

Bed of Lies

Score: 5.0

Sins of the Past

Score: 5.0

The Deerslayer

Score: 5.0

A Covenant with Death

Score: 5.0

I-Man

Score: 5.0

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal

Score: 4.6

Namu, the Killer Whale

Score: 4.6

Never Too Young to Die

Score: 4.6

A Man Called Gannon

Score: 4.5

Daddy

Score: 4.4

Scorpion

Score: 4.3

In Search of Historic Jesus

Score: 4.3

The First Time

Score: 4.0

The Stepmother

Score: 4.0

24 Hour Psycho

Score: 4.0

The Animals

Score: 3.7

The Specialist

Score: 3.5

Molly and Lawless John

Score: 3.0

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:

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

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

Little House on the Prairie

Score: 7.9

M*A*S*H

Score: 7.9

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.8

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.8

Emergency!

Score: 7.8

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.8

MacGyver

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

The Rockford Files

Score: 7.6

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Voyagers!

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Occasional Wife

Score: 7.5

87th Precinct

Score: 7.5

The Bob Newhart Show

Score: 7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

North and South

Score: 7.5

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Lou Grant

Score: 7.3

The Incredible Hulk

Score: 7.2

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

The Rat Patrol

Score: 7.2

The Rat Patrol

Score: 7.2

Hunter

Score: 7.2

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Matlock

Score: 7.1

Petrocelli

Score: 7.1

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

The Westerner

Score: 6.8

Dallas

Score: 6.8

Hart to Hart

Score: 6.8

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

Score: 6.8

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Score: 6.8

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Score: 6.8

Tarzan

Score: 6.7

Mannix

Score: 6.7

Sea Hunt

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

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Peter Gunn

Score: 6.5

Cannon

Score: 6.5

Thriller

Score: 6.4

Trackdown

Score: 6.4

Laramie

Score: 6.4

Felony Squad

Score: 6.4

The Quest

Score: 6.4

Trackdown

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

The Tall Man

Score: 6.3

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Score: 6.3

Route 66

Score: 6.3

Silver Spoons

Score: 6.2

Bronk

Score: 6.2

Bearcats!

Score: 6.2

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Score: 6.2

Matt Houston

Score: 6.2

Outlaws

Score: 6.2

Jake and the Fatman

Score: 6.1

Lassie

Score: 6.1

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

The Lieutenant

Score: 6.0

Sam Benedict

Score: 6.0

Stagecoach West

Score: 6.0

Law of the Plainsman

Score: 6.0

Law of the Plainsman

Score: 6.0

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

Score: 6.0

Law of the Plainsman

Score: 6.0

Black Saddle

Score: 6.0

Here Come the Brides

Score: 6.0

My Favorite Martian

Score: 6.0

Backstairs at the White House

Score: 5.9

The Sixth Sense

Score: 5.9

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

Johnny Ringo

Score: 5.7

Stoney Burke

Score: 5.7

Adventures in Paradise

Score: 5.7

Lawman

Score: 5.6

The Detectives

Score: 5.6

Ben Casey

Score: 5.6

Yancy Derringer

Score: 5.6

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Score: 5.3

Bronco

Score: 5.2

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

Score: 5.1

The Rebel

Score: 5.1

Peter Loves Mary

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

Cimarron Strip

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

Bret Maverick

Score: 4.0

$weepstake$

Score: 0.0

Inside Detective

Score: 0.0

Harrigan and Son

Score: 0.0

Panic!

Score: 0.0

The Great Adventure

Score: 0.0