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John Anderson
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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").…
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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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BODY OF WORK
John Anderson's Filmography
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Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
Bed of Lies
as Price Daniel, Sr.
Daddy
as George Watson
Babe Ruth
as Judge Landis
In Broad Daylight
as Wes Westerman
Follow Your Heart
as Josh Lowe
Deadly Innocents
as Gus
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
as George Dutton
Eight Men Out
as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
American Harvest
as Judge Meriweather
Scorpion
as Noel G. Koch
Never Too Young to Die
as Arliss
I-Man
as Holbrook
Sins of the Past
as Rev. Donald Randolph
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
as Stanley Willard
The First Time
as Paul Cooper
Zoot Suit
as Judge F.W. Charles
Out of the Blue
as T.V. Interviewer
Smokey and the Bandit II
as Governor
In Search of Historic Jesus
as Caiaphas
The Deerslayer
as Hutter
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
as Patrick Breen
The Last Hurrah
as Amos Force
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
as Alexander Majors
The Lincoln Conspiracy
as Abraham Lincoln
The Force of Evil
as Sheriff John Carrington
Bridger
as President Andrew Jackson
The Dark Side of Innocence
as Stephen Hancock
The Quest
as Army Officer
Death Among Friends
as Capt. Lewis
The Specialist
as Pike Smith
Dead Man on the Run
as Jason Monroe
The Dove
as Mike Turk
Manhunter
as Aaron Denver
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
as Col. John Lockport
Heatwave!
as Toler
Lincoln: Trial by Fire
as President Lincoln
Executive Action
as Halliday
The Counsellor
as Don Vito Albanese
Hitched
as Jomer Cruett
Call to Danger
as Edward McClure
Set This Town on Fire
as Henry Kealey
Molly and Lawless John
as Sheriff Marvin Parker
The Stepmother
as Inspector Darnezi
Man and Boy
as Stretch
Soldier Blue
as Col. Iverson
Cotton Comes to Harlem
as Capt. Bryce
The Andersonville Trial
as Ambrose Spencer
The Animals
as Sheriff Allan Pierce
Young Billy Young
as Boone
The Great Bank Robbery
as Mayor Kincaid
Heaven with a Gun
as Ase Beck
5 Card Stud
as Marshal Dana
A Man Called Gannon
as Capper
Day of the Evil Gun
as Captain Jefferson Addis
Welcome to Hard Times
as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
A Covenant with Death
as Dietrich
The Fortune Cookie
as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Namu, the Killer Whale
as Joe Clausen
Scalplock
as Standish
The Hallelujah Trail
as Sgt. Buell
The Satan Bug
as Agent Reagan
For the Love of Willadean
as Farmer Wills
Ride the High Country
as Elder Hammond
Geronimo
as Jeremiah Burns
Walk on the Wild Side
as Preacher
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
as Sailor (uncredited)
Psycho
as California Charlie
Last Train from Gun Hill
as Salesman
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
as Doc
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Rebel Range
as Fisk Madden