
John Anderson
Born: 1922-10-20
Place of Birth: Clayton, Illinois, USA
Biography
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

Psycho

For the Love of Willadean

A Covenant with Death

The Fortune Cookie

Cotton Comes to Harlem

The Quest

Zoot Suit

Counselor at Crime

The Stepmother

Daddy

The Force of Evil

Deadly Innocents

Babe Ruth

Scalplock

American Harvest

Manhunter

The Dove

5 Card Stud

The Hallelujah Trail

Hitched

Walk on the Wild Side

Last Train from Gun Hill

Rebel Range

I-Man

Soldier Blue

Geronimo

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

Smokey and the Bandit II

The Satan Bug

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

Bridger

Man and Boy

Eight Men Out

Call to Danger

24 Hour Psycho

Ride the High Country

Set This Town on Fire

Dead Man on the Run

Day of the Evil Gun

Heaven with a Gun

Out of the Blue

The Last Hurrah

Sins of the Past

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal

Bed of Lies

Young Billy Young

A Man Called Gannon

Lincoln: Trial by Fire

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Scorpion

Never Too Young to Die

The Great Bank Robbery

The Lincoln Conspiracy

The Andersonville Trial

Namu, the Killer Whale

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

In Broad Daylight

Welcome to Hard Times

Executive Action

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

The Animals

Death Among Friends

Follow Your Heart

Heatwave!

The First Time

Molly and Lawless John

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

The True Story of Lynn Stuart

The Deerslayer

The Dark Side of Innocence

In Search of Historic Jesus

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
