John Anderson
Actor
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
The Fortune Cookie
as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited) 1966
Smokey and the Bandit II
as Governor 1980
Eight Men Out
as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis 1988
Ride the High Country
as Elder Hammond 1962
Soldier Blue
as Col. Iverson 1970
Last Train from Gun Hill
as Salesman 1959
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
The Hallelujah Trail
as Sgt. Buell 1965
Out of the Blue
as T.V. Interviewer 1981
5 Card Stud
as Marshal Dana 1968
Walk on the Wild Side
as Preacher 1962
Cotton Comes to Harlem
as Capt. Bryce 1970
The Satan Bug
as Agent Reagan 1965
Never Too Young to Die
as Arliss 1986
Executive Action
as Halliday 1973
Geronimo
as Jeremiah Burns 1962