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)).

KNOWN FOR

Perry Mason
1959
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1989
Bonanza
1969
MacGyver
1985
Dallas
1987
Murder, She Wrote
1991
Hawaii Five-O
1971
M*A*S*H
1983
Quantum Leap
1992
Mannix
1967
The Fugitive
1965
The Rockford Files
1976

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
224
Directing
1
Writing
1
Producing
1
1994
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
1992
Bed of Lies
as Price Daniel, Sr.
1992
Quantum Leap
as Pat Knight
1992
Jake and the Fatman
as Ace Thompson
1991
In Broad Daylight
as Wes Westerman
1991
Daddy
as George Watson
1991
Babe Ruth
as Judge Landis
1991
Murder, She Wrote
as Andrew Dixon
1990
Follow Your Heart
as Josh Lowe
1990
Matlock
as Sam Chandler
1989
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
as George Dutton
1989
Deadly Innocents
as Gus
1989
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Kevin Uxbridge
1988
Eight Men Out
as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
1988
Hunter
as Winston Taggert
1988
Aaron's Way
1988
Annie McGuire
1987
American Harvest
as Judge Meriweather
1987
Dallas
as Dr. Herbert Styles
1987
Heart of the City
as Warren
1986
I-Man
as Holbrook
1986
Never Too Young to Die
as Arliss
1986
Scorpion
as Noel G. Koch
1986
Dream West
as Brig. Gen. Brooke
1985
MacGyver
as Harry Jackson
1985
North and South
as William Hazard
1984
Sins of the Past
as Rev. Donald Randolph
1984
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1984
Matt Houston
1983
M*A*S*H
as General Collins
1982
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
as Stanley Willard
1982
The First Time
as Paul Cooper
1982
Silver Spoons
as Captain Stark
1982
Voyagers!
1982
Quincy, M.E.
as Chief Frank Ollano
1982
Bret Maverick
as General Frye
1981
Zoot Suit
as Judge F.W. Charles
1981
Out of the Blue
as T.V. Interviewer
1981
Hart to Hart
1980
Smokey and the Bandit II
as Governor
1980
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
as Col. Clayborn
1979
In Search of Historic Jesus
as Caiaphas
1979
Backstairs at the White House
as Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1979
The Incredible Hulk
as Mike Calahan
1979
$weepstake$
as Thomas Singer
1978
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
as Patrick Breen
1978
The Deerslayer
as Hutter
1978
Quincy, M.E.
as Justin DeWilde
1977
The Lincoln Conspiracy
as Abraham Lincoln
1977
The Force of Evil
as Sheriff John Carrington
1977
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
as Alexander Majors
1977
The Last Hurrah
as Amos Force
1977
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
as Floyd Carrington
1977
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Amos Force
1977
Quincy, M.E.
as Movie Director
1977
Lou Grant
as Russell Grainger
1976
The Quest
as Army Officer
1976
The Dark Side of Innocence
as Stephen Hancock
1976
Bridger
as President Andrew Jackson
1976
The Quest
1976
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
as Scotty
1976
The Rockford Files
as Gerald A. O'Malley
1975
The Specialist
as Pike Smith
1975
Dead Man on the Run
as Jason Monroe
1975
Death Among Friends
as Capt. Lewis
1975
Little House on the Prairie
as Amos Pike
1975
Emergency!
as Captain Bob Roberts
1975
Bronk
as Colonel Hecker
1974
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
as Col. John Lockport
1974
Manhunter
as Aaron Denver
1974
Heatwave!
as Toler
1974
The Dove
as Mike Turk
1974
Lincoln: Trial by Fire
as President Lincoln
1974
Kung Fu
as Jack Youngblood
1974
The Bob Newhart Show
as Mr. Charlie Colton
1974
Petrocelli
as Joshua Forbes
1973
Executive Action
as Halliday
1973
Set This Town on Fire
as Henry Kealey
1973
The Counsellor
as Don Vito Albanese
1973
Call to Danger
as Edward McClure
1973
Hitched
as Jomer Cruett
1973
Cannon
1973
Gunsmoke
as Adam Kimbro
1973
Kung Fu
as Wray
1973
Kung Fu
as Benjamin Dundee
1972
The Stepmother
as Inspector Darnezi
1972
Molly and Lawless John
as Sheriff Marvin Parker
1972
The F.B.I.
as Bollin
1972
The Sixth Sense
as The Sheriff
1971
Man and Boy
as Stretch
1971
Hawaii Five-O
as Brig. General Earl Rigney
1971
Gunsmoke
as Lemuel Cleary
1971
Bearcats!
as Judge Juan O'Brien
1970
Soldier Blue
as Col. Iverson
1970
The Animals
as Sheriff Allan Pierce
1970
The Andersonville Trial
as Ambrose Spencer
1970
Cotton Comes to Harlem
as Capt. Bryce
1969
Heaven with a Gun
as Ase Beck
1969
Young Billy Young
as Boone
1969
The Great Bank Robbery
as Mayor Kincaid
1969
Here Come the Brides
1969
Gunsmoke
as Jess Fletcher
1969
Gunsmoke
as Amos Sadler
1969
The Virginian
as Seth James
1969
Bonanza
as Sam Masters
1968
5 Card Stud
as Marshal Dana
1968
A Man Called Gannon
as Capper
1968
Day of the Evil Gun
as Captain Jefferson Addis
1968
Lancer
1968
The Rat Patrol
as Gen. Owen Lansbury
1967
Welcome to Hard Times
as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
1967
A Covenant with Death
as Dietrich
1967
Cimarron Strip
1967
Tarzan
1967
Occasional Wife
1967
The Virginian
as Sam McLain
1967
Gunsmoke
as Roberts
1967
Mannix
as George Blake
1967
Felony Squad
as Lt. Mike Reineck
1966
Scalplock
as Standish
1966
Namu, the Killer Whale
as Joe Clausen
1966
The Fortune Cookie
as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
1966
The F.B.I.
as Adam MacDonald
1966
The Rat Patrol
as Major Indrus
1966
The Legend of Jesse James
as Moss Canby
1966
The Virginian
as Jeremiah Chilton
1966
The Virginian
as Deputy Sheriff Sam Morrell
1966
Gunsmoke
as Les McConnell
1965
The Satan Bug
as Agent Reagan
1965
The Hallelujah Trail
as Sgt. Buell
1965
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Rankin
1965
The Fugitive
as Justin Briggs
1965
The Big Valley
as Matt Bentell
1965
Rawhide
as Maj. Cantwell
1965
The Virginian
as Adam Tercell
1965
Gunsmoke
as Pa Gibbijohn
1965
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Luke Hunter
1964
For the Love of Willadean
as Farmer Wills
1964
Rawhide
as Captain James Rankin
1964
The Fugitive
as Ed Shrader
1964
The Lieutenant
as Joe Hammond
1963
The Great Adventure
as Colonel Knowlton
1963
Route 66
1963
The Twilight Zone
as Goldsmith
1963
The Twilight Zone
as Deidrich
1963
Redigo
1963
Ben Casey
1963
The Outer Limits
as Ebonite Interrogator
1963
Gunsmoke
as Cheevers
1963
Perry Mason
as Dan O'Malley
1963
The Rifleman
as Samuel Gibbs
1963
My Favorite Martian
as Capt. Farrow
1963
Bonanza
as Tulsa Weems
1962
Ride the High Country
as Elder Hammond
1962
Geronimo
as Jeremiah Burns
1962
Walk on the Wild Side
as Preacher
1962
Cain's Hundred
as Kenneth Drake
1962
The Tall Man
1962
The Virginian
as Major Cass
1962
Thriller
as Jacob Grant
1962
Laramie
1962
Stoney Burke
1962
Dr. Kildare
as Vernon Hackett
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Adam
1962
Sam Benedict
as James Bradley
1962
Sam Benedict
as Jim Bradley
1961
Cheyenne
1961
The Twilight Zone
as Capt. 'Skipper' Farver
1961
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Nicholson
1961
87th Precinct
1961
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1961
Adventures in Paradise
as Benson
1961
Bat Masterson
as Major Liam Mars
1961
Peter Loves Mary
as Bill Horton
1961
Lawman
as Hassayampa Edwards
1960
Psycho
as California Charlie
1960
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
as Sailor (uncredited)
1960
The Twilight Zone
as Gabriel
1960
Outlaws
1960
Bronco
1960
The Rebel
as Ezra Taber
1960
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Deputy Sheriff Fix
1960
The Detectives
1960
Johnny Ringo
as Cartwright
1960
Law of the Plainsman
as Matthew Bannock
1960
Law of the Plainsman
as Jeb Wicken
1960
Harrigan and Son
as Earl
1960
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as John Duncan
1960
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as Virgil Earp
1960
Stagecoach West
as Cole Dawson
1960
The Westerner
as Leth Ritchie
1960
Bonanza
as Gorman
1959
Last Train from Gun Hill
as Salesman
1959
Perry Mason
as George Andrews
1959
Lassie
1959
Yancy Derringer
as Wayne Raven
1959
Peter Gunn
1959
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Paul Russell
1959
Black Saddle
as Clyde Wicker
1959
The Rifleman
1959
Law of the Plainsman
as Clyde Santee
1959
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Fisk Madden
1959
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Marshal Cal Lazenby
1959
Gunsmoke
as Delliver
1959
Perry Mason
as Bud Ferrand
1959
The Rifleman
as Owny Kincaid
1959
Trackdown
as McCall
1959
Steve Canyon
as Sergeant Bulla
1958
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
as Doc
1958
Gunsmoke
as Ben Siple
1958
Sea Hunt
1958
Have Gun, Will Travel
1958
Gunsmoke
as Yermo
1958
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Fred Cooley
1957
Trackdown
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Roy Kelsey
1957
The Walter Winchell File
1957
Panic!
1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Attendant
1954
Inside Detective
as Theater manager
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Rebel Range
as Fisk Madden