Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1922-10-20
Day of Death
1992-08-07
Place of Birth
Clayton, Illinois, USA
John 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)).
Filmography (71)
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
1994
Bed of Lies
1992
Daddy
1991
Babe Ruth
1991
In Broad Daylight
1991
Follow Your Heart
1990
Deadly Innocents
1989
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
1989
Eight Men Out
1988
American Harvest
1987
Scorpion
1986
Never Too Young to Die
1986
I-Man
1986
Sins of the Past
1984
