Acting credits
176
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
John Anderson
Acting
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Movies: 76Series: 103Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 19111
IMDb ID: nm0026930
Known for: Acting
Born: October 20, 1922
Died: August 7, 1992
Age: 69
Place of birth: Clayton, Illinois, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1946 - 2021
Years active: 76
Average TMDB rating: 6.82
Wikidata: Q1699151
Also known as
John R. Anderson
Other jobs
Assistant Director (1)Producer's Assistant (1)Story Editor (1)
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)).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with John Anderson.
6.5
John, 316
Story Editor
2021 Movie
6.5
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
1994 Movie
4.0
24 Hour Psycho
as California Charlie (archive footage)
1993 Movie
5.0
Bed of Lies
as Price Daniel, Sr.
1992 Movie
4.4
Daddy
as George Watson
1991 Movie
6.0
Babe Ruth
as Judge Landis
1991 Movie
5.7
In Broad Daylight
as Wes Westerman
1991 Movie
Follow Your Heart
as Josh Lowe
1990 Movie
8.0
Deadly Innocents
as Gus
1989 Movie
4.2
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
as George Dutton
1989 Movie
6.9
Eight Men Out
as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
1988 Movie
American Harvest
as Judge Meriweather
1987 Movie
3.9
Scorpion
as Noel G. Koch
1986 Movie
4.6
Never Too Young to Die
as Arliss
1986 Movie
5.0
I-Man
as Holbrook
1986 Movie
4.0
Sins of the Past
as Rev. Donald Randolph
1984 Movie
6.7
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
as Stanley Willard
1982 Movie
4.0
The First Time
as Paul Cooper
1982 Movie
6.3
Zoot Suit
as Judge F.W. Charles
1981 Movie
6.9
Out of the Blue
as T.V. Interviewer
1981 Movie
5.6
Smokey and the Bandit II
as Governor
1980 Movie
4.3
In Search of Historic Jesus
as Caiaphas
1979 Movie
5.0
The Deerslayer
as Hutter
1978 Movie
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
as Patrick Breen
1978 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with John Anderson.
8.0
Quantum Leap
as Pat Knight • 1 eps
1989 Series
8.4
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Kevin Uxbridge • 1 eps
1987 Series
6.2
Jake and the Fatman
as Ace Thompson • 1 eps
1987 Series
5.0
Heart of the City
as Warren • 1 eps
1986 Series
5.0
Dream West
as Brig. Gen. Brooke • 3 eps
1986 Series
7.1
Matlock
as Sam Chandler • 1 eps
1986 Series
7.4
North and South
as William Hazard • 1 eps
1985 Series
7.7
MacGyver
as Harry Jackson • 5 eps
1985 Series
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Andrew Dixon • 1 eps
1984 Series
7.1
Hunter
as Winston Taggert • 1 eps
1984 Series
6.4
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1 eps
1983 Series
7.5
Voyagers!
1 eps
1982 Series
6.2
Matt Houston
2 eps
1982 Series
6.3
Silver Spoons
1 eps
1982 Series
5.0
Bret Maverick
as General Frye • 1 eps
1981 Series
6.8
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1 eps
1980 Series
5.1
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
as Col. Clayborn • 1 eps
1979 Series
6.9
Hart to Hart
1 eps
1979 Series
5.9
Backstairs at the White House
as Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt • 4 eps
1979 Series
6.8
Dallas
as Dr. Herbert Styles • 7 eps
1978 Series
7.2
The Incredible Hulk
as Mike Calahan • 1 eps
1977 Series
7.3
Lou Grant
as Russell Grainger • 1 eps
1977 Series
6.0
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
as Floyd Carrington • 1 eps
1977 Series
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
as Justin DeWilde • 1 eps
1976 Series