John Anderson
Acting
Born: 1922-10-20 in 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
Perry Mason
George Andrews
Perry Mason
Bud Ferrand
Perry Mason
Dan O'Malley
Dallas
Dr. Herbert Styles
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Kevin Uxbridge
Lassie
Hawaii Five-O
Brig. General Earl Rigney
The Fugitive
Justin Briggs
The Fugitive
Ed Shrader
Murder, She Wrote
Andrew Dixon
The Rifleman
The Rifleman
Samuel Gibbs
The Rifleman
Owny Kincaid
Quantum Leap
Pat Knight
Bonanza
Sam Masters
Bonanza
Gorman
Bonanza
Tulsa Weems
MacGyver
Harry Jackson
Mannix
George Blake
M*A*S*H
General Collins
Little House on the Prairie
Amos Pike
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Luke Hunter
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Adam
Emergency!
Captain Bob Roberts
The Rockford Files
Gerald A. O'Malley
Lawman
Hassayampa Edwards
The Twilight Zone
Capt. 'Skipper' Farver
The Twilight Zone
Deidrich
The Twilight Zone
Goldsmith
The Twilight Zone
Gabriel
The Virginian
Major Cass
The Virginian
Adam Tercell
The Virginian
Jeremiah Chilton
The Virginian
Deputy Sheriff Sam Morrell
The Virginian
Sam McLain
The Virginian
Seth James
Matlock
Sam Chandler
The Incredible Hulk
Mike Calahan
Rawhide
Captain James Rankin
Rawhide
Maj. Cantwell