John Anderson
Birthday: 1922-10-20 | Place of Birth: Clayton, Illinois, USAJohn 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)).
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Acting
Role
as Price Daniel, Sr.
as George Watson
as Wes Westerman
as Arliss
as Holbrook
as Judge F.W. Charles
as Governor
as Pike Smith
as Col. John Lockport
as Halliday
as Inspector Darnezi
as Sheriff Allan Pierce
as Stretch
as Capt. Bryce
as Col. Iverson
as Ase Beck
as Boone
as Mayor Kincaid
as Capper
as Captain Jefferson Addis
as Marshal Dana
as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
as Joe Clausen
as Standish
as Sgt. Buell
as Elder Hammond
as Doc (uncredited)
