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)).
★8.4
MOVIE1960
Psycho
as California Charlie
★6.0
MOVIE1964
For the Love of Willadean
as Farmer Wills
★5.5
MOVIE1980
Smokey and the Bandit II
as Governor
★7.1
MOVIE1959
Last Train from Gun Hill
as Salesman
★6.8
MOVIE1970
Soldier Blue
as Col. Iverson
★7.2
MOVIE1966
The Fortune Cookie
as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1968
5 Card Stud
as Marshal Dana
★6.8
MOVIE1988
Eight Men Out
as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
★5.9
MOVIE1969
Young Billy Young
as Boone
★4.8
MOVIE1991
Daddy
as George Watson
★9.0
MOVIE1987
American Harvest
as Judge Meriweather
★6.7
MOVIE1974
Manhunter
as Aaron Denver
★6.2
MOVIE1968
Day of the Evil Gun
as Captain Jefferson Addis
★6.2
MOVIE1970
Cotton Comes to Harlem
as Capt. Bryce
★6.7
MOVIE1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
★6.5
MOVIE1973
Executive Action
as Halliday
★7.0
MOVIE1962
Ride the High Country
as Elder Hammond
★4.1
MOVIE1972
The Stepmother
as Inspector Darnezi
★4.7
MOVIE1975
The Specialist
as Pike Smith
★5.3
MOVIE1966
Namu, the Killer Whale
as Joe Clausen
★6.1
MOVIE1965
The Hallelujah Trail
as Sgt. Buell
★4.7
MOVIE1986
Never Too Young to Die
as Arliss
★6.6
MOVIE1969
The Great Bank Robbery
as Mayor Kincaid
★6.1
MOVIE1965
The Satan Bug
as Agent Reagan
★10.0
MOVIE1976
Bridger
as President Andrew Jackson
★6.6
MOVIE1962
Walk on the Wild Side
as Preacher
★5.3
MOVIE1967
Welcome to Hard Times
as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
★4.8
MOVIE1989
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
as George Dutton
★4.8
MOVIE1967
A Covenant with Death
as Dietrich
★5.6
MOVIE1973
Counselor at Crime
as Don Vito Albanese
★6.9
MOVIE1981
Out of the Blue
as T.V. Interviewer
★6.0
MOVIE1977
The Lincoln Conspiracy
as Abraham Lincoln
★5.5
MOVIE1969
Heaven with a Gun
as Ase Beck
★6.8
MOVIE1974
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
as Col. John Lockport
★6.1
MOVIE1991
In Broad Daylight
as Wes Westerman
★6.3
MOVIE1970
The Andersonville Trial
as Ambrose Spencer
★6.7
MOVIE1971
Man and Boy
as Stretch
★4.9
MOVIE1968
A Man Called Gannon
as Capper
★9.0
MOVIE1978
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
as Patrick Breen
★3.5
MOVIE1972
Molly and Lawless John
as Sheriff Marvin Parker
★6.7
MOVIE1974
The Dove
as Mike Turk
★8.5
MOVIE1976
The Quest
as Army Officer
★3.9
MOVIE1970
The Animals
as Sheriff Allan Pierce
★5.5
MOVIE1962
Geronimo
as Jeremiah Burns
★5.2
MOVIE1984
Sins of the Past
as Rev. Donald Randolph
★10.0
MOVIE1990
Follow Your Heart
as Josh Lowe
★5.6
MOVIE1986
I-Man
as Holbrook
★4.9
MOVIE1975
Death Among Friends
as Capt. Lewis
★4.0
MOVIE1982
The First Time
as Paul Cooper
★5.5
MOVIE1979
In Search of Historic Jesus
as Caiaphas
★6.8
MOVIE1966
Scalplock
as Standish
★7.5
MOVIE1975
Dead Man on the Run
as Jason Monroe
★6.0
MOVIE1992
Bed of Lies
as Price Daniel, Sr.
★6.0
MOVIE1991
Babe Ruth
as Judge Landis
★7.0
MOVIETBA
The American Adventure
as Mark Twain / Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1994
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1978
The Deerslayer
as Hutter
★6.0
MOVIE1977
The Force of Evil
as Sheriff John Carrington
★4.6
MOVIE1986
Scorpion
as Noel G. Koch
★7.0
MOVIE1973
Set This Town on Fire
as Henry Kealey
★6.4
MOVIE1981
Zoot Suit
as Judge F.W. Charles
★9.0
MOVIE1973
Call to Danger
as Edward McClure
★7.8
MOVIE1989
Deadly Innocents
as Gus
MOVIE1974
Lincoln: Trial by Fire
as President Lincoln
★7.0
MOVIE1977
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
as Alexander Majors
★6.1
MOVIE1960
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
as Sailor (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1958
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
as Doc
★7.5
MOVIE1982
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
as Stanley Willard
★9.0
MOVIE1976
The Dark Side of Innocence
as Stephen Hancock
★6.1
MOVIE1974
Heatwave!
as Toler
★7.3
MOVIE1973
Hitched
as Jomer Cruett
MOVIE1977
The Last Hurrah
as Amos Force
MOVIETBA
Rebel Range
as Fisk Madden