John Anderson

John Anderson

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)).

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Movies starring John Anderson (72)

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (1994)

Virgil Earp (Flashback Sequence) (Archive Footage)

Bed of Lies (1992)

Price Daniel, Sr.

Daddy (1991)

George Watson

Babe Ruth (1991)

Judge Landis

Eight Men Out (1988)

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis

American Harvest (1987)

Judge Meriweather

Scorpion (1986)

Noel G. Koch

I-Man (1986)

Holbrook

Sins of the Past (1984)

Rev. Donald Randolph

Zoot Suit (1981)

Judge F.w. Charles

Out of the Blue (1981)

T.v. Interviewer

The Force of Evil (1977)

Sheriff John Carrington

Bridger (1976)

President Andrew Jackson

The Quest (1976)

Army Officer

Manhunter (1974)

Aaron Denver

Counselor at Crime (1973)

Don Vito Albanese

Hitched (1973)

Jomer Cruett

Call to Danger (1973)

Edward Mcclure

Molly and Lawless John (1972)

Sheriff Marvin Parker

The Stepmother (1972)

Inspector Darnezi

The Animals (1970)

Sheriff Allan Pierce

5 Card Stud (1968)

Marshal Dana

Day of the Evil Gun (1968)

Captain Jefferson Addis

Welcome to Hard Times (1967)

Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple

The Fortune Cookie (1966)

Abraham Lincoln (Uncredited)

Geronimo (1962)

Jeremiah Burns

Psycho (1960)

California Charlie

Movies Made by John Anderson (2)

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