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John Anderson

John Anderson
  • Name: John Anderson
  • Birthday: 1922-10-20
  • Also known as: John R. Anderson
  • Place of birth: Clayton, Illinois, USA
  • Popularity: 10.908
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... Read More

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Title Release date
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone   as  Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage) 1994-07-01
24 Hour Psycho   as  California Charlie (archive footage) 1993-01-01
Bed of Lies   as  Price Daniel, Sr. 1992-01-20
Daddy   as  George Watson 1991-10-23
Babe Ruth   as  Judge Landis 1991-10-06
In Broad Daylight   as  Wes Westerman 1991-02-03
Follow Your Heart   as  Josh Lowe 1990-04-02
Deadly Innocents   as  Gus 1989-06-01
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal   as  George Dutton 1989-02-05
Eight Men Out   as  Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis 1988-09-02
American Harvest   as  Judge Meriweather 1987-01-16
Scorpion   as  Noel G. Koch 1986-12-01
Never Too Young to Die   as  Arliss 1986-06-13
I-Man   as  Holbrook 1986-04-06
Sins of the Past   as  Rev. Donald Randolph 1984-04-02
Missing Children: A Mother's Story   as  Stanley Willard 1982-12-01
Zoot Suit   as  Judge F.W. Charles 1981-10-02
Out of the Blue   as  T.V. Interviewer 1981-04-29
Smokey and the Bandit II   as  Governor 1980-08-15
In Search of Historic Jesus   as  Caiaphas 1979-08-01
Shadow of Fear   as  Zook 1979-01-28
The Deerslayer   as  Hutter 1978-12-18
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival   as  Patrick Breen 1978-10-24
The Last Hurrah   as  Amos Force 1977-11-16
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion   as  Alexander Majors 1977-11-05
The Lincoln Conspiracy   as  Abraham Lincoln 1977-10-01
The Force of Evil   as  Sheriff John Carrington 1977-03-13
Bridger   as  President Andrew Jackson 1976-09-10
The Dark Side of Innocence   as  Stephen Hancock 1976-05-20
The Quest   as  Army Officer 1976-05-13
The Specialist   as  Pike Smith 1975-05-01
Dead Man on the Run   as  Jason Monroe 1975-04-02
The Dove   as  Mike Turk 1974-06-16
Manhunter   as  Aaron Denver 1974-02-26
Smile Jenny, You're Dead   as  Col. John Lockport 1974-02-03
Heatwave!   as  Toler 1974-01-27
Executive Action   as  Halliday 1973-11-07
Counselor at Crime   as  Don Vito Albanese 1973-08-30
Call to Danger 1973-02-27
Set This Town on Fire   as  Henry Kealey 1973-01-08
Molly and Lawless John   as  Sheriff Marvin Parker 1972-12-01
The Stepmother   as  Inspector Darnezi 1972-10-26
Man and Boy   as  Stretch 1971-06-23
Hitched   as  Jomer Cruett 1971-03-31
Soldier Blue   as  Col. Iverson 1970-08-12
Cotton Comes to Harlem   as  Capt. Bryce 1970-05-27
The Andersonville Trial   as  Ambrose Spencer 1970-05-17
The Animals   as  Sheriff Allan Pierce 1970-03-09
Young Billy Young   as  Boone 1969-10-15
The Great Bank Robbery   as  Mayor Kincaid 1969-06-24
Heaven with a Gun   as  Ase Beck 1969-05-20
5 Card Stud   as  Marshal Dana 1968-07-28
A Man Called Gannon   as  Capper 1968-03-08
Day of the Evil Gun   as  Captain Jefferson Addis 1968-03-01
Welcome to Hard Times   as  Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple 1967-04-30
A Covenant with Death   as  Dietrich 1967-02-15
The Fortune Cookie   as  Abraham Lincoln (uncredited) 1966-10-19
Namu, the Killer Whale   as  Joe Clausen 1966-08-01
Scalplock   as  Standish 1966-04-10
The Hallelujah Trail   as  Sgt. Buell 1965-06-23
The Satan Bug   as  Agent Reagan 1965-03-26
For the Love of Willadean   as  Farmer Wills 1964-03-08
Ride the High Country   as  Elder Hammond 1962-06-20
Geronimo   as  Jeremiah Burns 1962-04-27
Walk on the Wild Side   as  Preacher 1962-03-21
The Wackiest Ship in the Army   as  Sailor (uncredited) 1960-12-29
Psycho   as  California Charlie 1960-06-22
Last Train from Gun Hill   as  Salesman 1959-07-29
The True Story of Lynn Stuart   as  Doc 1958-03-03
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel 1951-10-16