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John Anderson

Film Director | * 10/20/1922 († 69, 08/07/1992) | Clayton, Illinois (United States of America (USA))
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John Robert Anderson (October 20, 1922 – August 7, 1992) was an American character actor who performed in hundreds of stage, film, and television productions during a career that spanned over four decades. ()

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)).

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Western | Action & Adventure

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An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him. ...

Ride the High Country

NR

1962 | 3.5/5 | 1h 34min
Action, Western
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A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series. ...

Eight Men Out

PG

1988 | 3.5/5 | 1h 59min
Drama, History
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A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The ...

The Satan Bug

NR

1965 | 3.2/5 | 1h 54min
Crime, Science Fiction, Mystery
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When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his ho ...

Psycho

R

1960 | 4.2/5 | 1h 49min
Horror, Drama, Thriller
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Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror imag ...

Quantum Leap

TV-PG

1989 | 4.1/5 | 48min per episode
Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
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Movies with John Anderson as Actor(64)

as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)1994 Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
as Price Daniel, Sr.1992 Bed of Lies
as George Watson1991 Daddy
as Wes Westerman1991 In Broad Daylight
as Judge Landis1991 Babe Ruth
as Gus1989 Deadly Innocents
as George Dutton1989 Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis1988 Eight Men Out
as Judge Meriweather1987 American Harvest
as Noel G. Koch1986 Scorpion
as Holbrook1986 I-Man
as Arliss1986 Never Too Young to Die
as Rev. Donald Randolph1984 Sins of the Past
as Stanley Willard1982 Missing Children: A Mother's Story
as Judge F.W. Charles1981 Zoot Suit
as Governor1980 Smokey and the Bandit II
as T.V. Interviewer1980 Out of the Blue
as Caiaphas1979 In Search of Historic Jesus
as Patrick Breen1978 Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
as Hutter1978 The Deerslayer
as Amos Force1977 The Last Hurrah
as Abraham Lincoln1977 The Lincoln Conspiracy
as Alexander Majors1977 Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
as President Andrew Jackson1976 Bridger
as Stephen Hancock1976 The Dark Side of Innocence
as Pike Smith1975 The Specialist
as Jason Monroe1975 Dead Man on the Run
as Col. John Lockport1974 Smile Jenny, You're Dead
as Toler1974 Heatwave!
as Aaron Denver1974 Manhunter
as Mike Turk1974 The Dove
1973 Call to Danger
as Halliday1973 Executive Action
as Henry Kealey1973 Set This Town on Fire
as Don Vito Albanese1973 Counselor at Crime
as Sheriff Marvin Parker1972 Molly and Lawless John
as Inspector Darnezi1972 The Stepmother
as Stretch1971 Man and Boy
as Sheriff Allan Pierce1971 The Animals
as Capt. Bryce1970 Cotton Comes to Harlem
as Col. Iverson1970 Soldier Blue
as Ambrose Spencer1970 The Andersonville Trial
as Mayor Kincaid1969 The Great Bank Robbery
as Ase Beck1969 Heaven with a Gun
as Boone1969 Young Billy Young
as Marshal Dana1968 5 Card Stud
as Captain Jefferson Addis1968 Day of the Evil Gun
as Capper1968 A Man Called Gannon
as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple1967 Welcome to Hard Times
as Dietrich1967 A Covenant with Death
as Standish1966 Scalplock
as Joe Clausen1966 Namu, the Killer Whale
as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)1966 The Fortune Cookie
as Agent Reagan1965 The Satan Bug
as Sgt. Buell1965 The Hallelujah Trail
as Farmer Wills1964 For the Love of Willadean
as Preacher1962 Walk on the Wild Side
as Jeremiah Burns1962 Geronimo
as Elder Hammond1962 Ride the High Country
as Sailor (uncredited)1960 The Wackiest Ship in the Army
as California Charlie1960 Psycho
as Salesman1959 Last Train from Gun Hill
as Doc (uncredited)1958 The True Story of Lynn Stuart
1951 The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

TV Shows/Series with John Anderson as Actor(123)

as Pat Knight1989 Quantum Leap
1988 Annie McGuire
1988 Aaron's Way
1987 Jake and the Fatman
as Kevin Uxbridge1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation
1986 Matlock
1986 Heart of the City
as Harry Jackson1985 MacGyver
as Winston Taggert1984 Hunter
1983 Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1982 Silver Spoons
1982 Matt Houston
1982 Voyagers
1981 Bret Maverick
1980 Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1979 Hart to Hart
as Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt1979 Backstairs at the White House
as Dr. Herbert Styles1978 Dallas
as Mike Calahan1977 The Incredible Hulk
as Floyd Carrington1977 Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977 Lou Grant
1976 The Quest
1976 Quincy, M.E.
1975 Bronk
as Gerald A. O'Malley1974 The Rockford Files
1974 Little House on the Prairie
1972 Kung Fu
1972 The Sixth Sense
1972 Emergency!
as General Collins1972 M*A*S*H
1972 The Bob Newhart Show
1971 Cannon
as Judge Juan O'Brien1971 Bearcats!
as Brig. General Earl Rigney1968 Hawaii Five-O
1968 Lancer
1968 Here Come the Brides
1967 Cimarron Strip
1967 Mannix
1966 Felony Squad
1966 Occasional Wife
1966 Tarzan
as Major Indrus1966 The Rat Patrol
as Gen. Owen Lansbury1966 The Rat Patrol
as Matt Bentell1965 The Big Valley
as Adam MacDonald1965 The F.B.I.
as Bollin1965 The F.B.I.
as Moss Canby1965 The Legend of Jesse James
as Colonel Knowlton1963 The Great Adventure
as Rankin1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 Redigo
as Justin Briggs1963 The Fugitive
as Ed Shrader1963 The Fugitive
as Ebonite Interrogator1963 The Outer Limits
1963 The Lieutenant
as Adam1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Luke Hunter1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 Sam Benedict
as Major Cass1962 The Virginian
as Adam Tercell1962 The Virginian
as Jeremiah Chilton1962 The Virginian
as Deputy Sheriff Sam Morrell1962 The Virginian
as Sam McLain1962 The Virginian
1962 Stoney Burke
as Kenneth Drake1961 Cain's Hundred
as Vernon Hackett1961 Dr. Kildare
1961 Ben Casey
1961 87th Precinct
as Jacob Grant1960 Thriller
1960 The Tall Man
1960 Outlaws
1960 Route 66
as Leth Ritchie1960 The Westerner
1959 The Detectives
as Ezra Taber1959 The Rebel
as Cartwright1959 Johnny Ringo
1959 Laramie
as Captain James Rankin1959 Rawhide
as Maj. Cantwell1959 Rawhide
as Clyde Santee1959 Law of the Plainsman
as Matthew Bannock1959 Law of the Plainsman
as Jeb Wicken1959 Law of the Plainsman
as Benson1959 Adventures in Paradise
as Gabriel1959 The Twilight Zone
as Capt. 'Skipper' Farver1959 The Twilight Zone
as Deidrich1959 The Twilight Zone
as Goldsmith1959 The Twilight Zone
as Clyde Wicker1959 Black Saddle
1958 Sea Hunt
as Deputy Sheriff Fix1958 Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Major Liam Mars1958 Bat Masterson
as Wayne Raven1958 Yancy Derringer
1958 The Rifleman
1958 Peter Gunn
1958 Bronco
1957 The Walter Winchell File
as Paul Russell1957 Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957 Have Gun, Will Travel
as George Andrews1957 Perry Mason
as Bud Ferrand1957 Perry Mason
as Dan O'Malley1957 Perry Mason
1957 Trackdown
as Roy Kelsey1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Fisk Madden1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Marshal Cal Lazenby1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as John Duncan1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Nicholson1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Attendant1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Ben Siple1955 Gunsmoke
as Yermo1955 Gunsmoke
as Delliver1955 Gunsmoke
as Cheevers1955 Gunsmoke
as Pa Gibbijohn1955 Gunsmoke
as Les McConnell1955 Gunsmoke
as Roberts1955 Gunsmoke
as Jess Fletcher1955 Gunsmoke
as Amos Sadler1955 Gunsmoke
as Lemuel Cleary1955 Gunsmoke
as Adam Kimbro1955 Gunsmoke
1955 Cheyenne
1955 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1954 Lassie
1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Amos Force1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame

Movies with John Anderson as Crew(1)

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Full Name: John Anderson
Born: Friday, 10/20 1922 (October) in Clayton, Illinois (United States of America (USA))
Died: Friday, 08/07 1992 (August) in Sherman Oaks (aged: 69)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Educated at: University of Iowa
Other names for John Anderson (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"John Anderson (Schauspieler)"
John Anderson frequently works together with these people:
Dabbs Greer (61x, Actor)
Ed Nelson (59x, Actor)
J. Pat O'Malley (59x, Actor)
Harry Townes (57x, Actor)
Robert Karnes (57x, Actor)
William Schallert (56x, Actor)
Bill Erwin (54x, Actor)
Virginia Gregg (54x, Actress)
Karl Swenson (53x, Actor)
Claude Akins (53x, Actor)
John Larch (53x, Actor)
Howard Avedis (7x, Crew)

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