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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"). 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)).

John Anderson

Biography

Films Featuring John Anderson

Psycho

Heaven with a Gun

5 Card Stud

The Satan Bug

Eight Men Out

I-Man

Executive Action

Soldier Blue

Ride the High Country

Geronimo

Scalplock

Young Billy Young

Namu, the Killer Whale

Zoot Suit

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

The Animals

The Stepmother

The Lincoln Conspiracy

Manhunter

The Force of Evil

The Great Bank Robbery

Man and Boy

In Broad Daylight

Welcome to Hard Times

The Quest

Daddy

A Covenant with Death

Follow Your Heart

Last Train from Gun Hill

In Search of Historic Jesus

Heatwave!

The Dark Side of Innocence

Molly and Lawless John

Set This Town on Fire

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

A Man Called Gannon

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

The Fortune Cookie

Smokey and the Bandit II

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

The Last Hurrah

Day of the Evil Gun

The Andersonville Trial

Cotton Comes to Harlem

The True Story of Lynn Stuart

The Specialist

The Dove

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

Babe Ruth

Never Too Young to Die

The Hallelujah Trail

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal

Deadly Innocents

Counselor at Crime

Call to Danger

Walk on the Wild Side

American Harvest

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

The Deerslayer

Sins of the Past

Scorpion

Bed of Lies

For the Love of Willadean

Bridger

Out of the Blue

Dead Man on the Run

Hitched

The First Time

Rebel Range

Lincoln: Trial by Fire

Death Among Friends

The American Adventure