Cast
John Anderson
Acting
Cast
John Anderson
Known for
Acting
Born
1922-10-20
From
Clayton, Illinois, USA
Died
1992-08-07
Also known as John R. Anderson
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)).
Psycho
as California Charlie
Soldier Blue
as Col. Iverson
Smokey and the Bandit II
as Governor
Ride the High Country
as Elder Hammond
Last Train from Gun Hill
as Salesman
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
The Satan Bug
as Agent Reagan
Hitched
as Jomer Cruett
Eight Men Out
as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Young Billy Young
as Boone
Zoot Suit
as Judge F.W. Charles
The Quest
as Army Officer
5 Card Stud
as Marshal Dana
The Hallelujah Trail
as Sgt. Buell
Walk on the Wild Side
as Preacher
Out of the Blue
as T.V. Interviewer
Geronimo
as Jeremiah Burns
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
as Sailor (uncredited)
A Covenant with Death
as Dietrich
Heatwave!
as Toler
The Fortune Cookie
as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
The Great Bank Robbery
as Mayor Kincaid
I-Man
as Holbrook
Namu, the Killer Whale
as Joe Clausen
Never Too Young to Die
as Arliss
The Andersonville Trial
as Ambrose Spencer
Heaven with a Gun
as Ase Beck
Bed of Lies
as Price Daniel, Sr.
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
Executive Action
as Halliday
Babe Ruth
as Judge Landis
Daddy
as George Watson
Cotton Comes to Harlem
as Capt. Bryce
American Harvest
as Judge Meriweather
The Stepmother
as Inspector Darnezi
Bridger
as President Andrew Jackson
Counselor at Crime
as Don Vito Albanese
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
as Col. John Lockport
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
as Stanley Willard
The Dove
as Mike Turk
A Man Called Gannon
as Capper
Welcome to Hard Times
as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
as Patrick Breen
Scorpion
as Noel G. Koch
The First Time
as Paul Cooper
In Broad Daylight
as Wes Westerman
The Deerslayer
as Hutter
Sins of the Past
as Rev. Donald Randolph
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
as George Dutton
The Animals
as Sheriff Allan Pierce
Deadly Innocents
as Gus
The Lincoln Conspiracy
as Abraham Lincoln
The Dark Side of Innocence
as Stephen Hancock
Day of the Evil Gun
as Captain Jefferson Addis
Follow Your Heart
as Josh Lowe
The Last Hurrah
as Amos Force
Manhunter
as Aaron Denver
The Specialist
as Pike Smith
Set This Town on Fire
as Henry Kealey
Scalplock
as Standish
Call to Danger
as Edward McClure
For the Love of Willadean
as Farmer Wills
Death Among Friends
as Capt. Lewis
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
as Alexander Majors
In Search of Historic Jesus
as Caiaphas
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
as Doc
Dead Man on the Run
as Jason Monroe
Molly and Lawless John
as Sheriff Marvin Parker
Man and Boy
as Stretch
The Force of Evil
as Sheriff John Carrington
Rebel Range
as Fisk Madden
Lincoln: Trial by Fire
as President Lincoln
The American Adventure
as Mark Twain / Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice)