As Actor
Bed of Lies
1992
5.0
John Anderson
Acting
Birth Date
October 20, 1922
Place of Birth
Clayton, Illinois, USA
Date of Death
August 7, 1992
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)).
Complete Filmography
As Actor
Daddy
1991
4.4
As Actor
In Broad Daylight
1991
5.7
As Actor
Deadly Innocents
1989
8.0
As Actor
Scorpion
1986
4.3
As Actor
Never Too Young to Die
1986
4.6
As Actor
I-Man
1986
5.0
As Actor
Sins of the Past
1984
5.0
As Actor
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
1982
6.7
As Actor
The First Time
1982
4.0
As Actor
Zoot Suit
1981
6.3
As Actor
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980
5.5
As Actor
The Deerslayer
1978
5.0
As Actor
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
1977
7.0
As Actor
The Lincoln Conspiracy
1977
5.6
As Actor
The Force of Evil
1977
6.0
As Actor
The Quest
1976
10.0
As Actor
The Specialist
1975
3.5
As Actor
Dead Man on the Run
1975
6.0
As Actor
The Dove
1974
6.3