John Anderson
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)).
Filmography (181 titles)
6.5MovieWyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage) · 1994
6.0MovieBed of Lies
Price Daniel, Sr. · 1992
4.8MovieDaddy
George Watson · 1991
6.0MovieBabe Ruth
Judge Landis · 1991
6.1MovieIn Broad Daylight
Wes Westerman · 1991
10.0MovieFollow Your Heart
Josh Lowe · 1990
7.8MovieDeadly Innocents
Gus · 1989
8.0ShowQuantum Leap
Pat Knight · 1989
4.8MovieFull Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
George Dutton · 1989
Annie McGuire
1988
6.8MovieEight Men Out
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis · 1988
Aaron's Way
1988
8.4ShowStar Trek: The Next Generation
Kevin Uxbridge · 1987
6.2ShowJake and the Fatman
Ace Thompson · 1987
9.0MovieAmerican Harvest
Judge Meriweather · 1987
4.6MovieScorpion
Noel G. Koch · 1986
7.5ShowHeart of the City
Warren · 1986
4.7MovieNever Too Young to Die
Arliss · 1986
6.0ShowDream West
Brig. Gen. Brooke · 1986
5.6MovieI-Man
Holbrook · 1986
7.1ShowMatlock
Sam Chandler · 1986
7.5ShowNorth and South
William Hazard · 1985
7.7ShowMacGyver
Harry Jackson · 1985
7.5ShowMurder, She Wrote
Andrew Dixon · 1984
7.1ShowHunter
Winston Taggert · 1984
5.2MovieSins of the Past
Rev. Donald Randolph · 1984
6.6ShowScarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
7.5MovieMissing Children: A Mother's Story
Stanley Willard · 1982
4.0MovieThe First Time
Paul Cooper · 1982
7.5ShowVoyagers!
1982