John Anderson

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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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Movie Story Editor
1994
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Movie Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
1992
Bed of Lies
Movie Price Daniel, Sr.
1991
Daddy
Movie George Watson
1991
Babe Ruth
Movie Judge Landis
1991
In Broad Daylight
Movie Wes Westerman
1990
Follow Your Heart
Movie Josh Lowe
1989
Deadly Innocents
Movie Gus
1989
Quantum Leap
TV show Pat Knight
1989
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
Movie George Dutton
1988
Annie McGuire
TV show
1988
Eight Men Out
Movie Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
1988
Aaron's Way
TV show
1987
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV show Kevin Uxbridge
1987
Jake and the Fatman
TV show Ace Thompson
1987
American Harvest
Movie Judge Meriweather