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)).
Known For
Acting
Role
as Price Daniel, Sr.
as George Watson
as Wes Westerman
as George Dutton
as Gus
as Arliss
as Brig. Gen. Brooke
as Holbrook
as Noel G. Koch
as Rev. Donald Randolph
as Paul Cooper
as T.V. Interviewer
as Judge F.W. Charles
as Governor
as Caiaphas
as Hutter
as Abraham Lincoln
as Alexander Majors
as Amos Force
as Sheriff John Carrington
as Army Officer
as Pike Smith
