John Anderson
Known For
Acting
Born
1922-10-20 in Clayton, Illinois, USA
Died
1992-08-07
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)).
Most Known For
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Kevin Uxbridge
Perry Mason
as George Andrews
Perry Mason
as Bud Ferrand
Perry Mason
as Dan O'Malley
Bonanza
as Sam Masters
Bonanza
as Gorman
Murder, She Wrote
as Andrew Dixon
MacGyver
as Harry Jackson
M*A*S*H
as General Collins
The Twilight Zone
as Goldsmith
The Twilight Zone
as Capt. 'Skipper' Farver
The Twilight Zone
as Deidrich
The Twilight Zone
as Gabriel
Little House on the Prairie
Quantum Leap
as Pat Knight
Dallas
as Dr. Herbert Styles
The Incredible Hulk
as Mike Calahan
The Rockford Files
as Gerald A. O'Malley
The Fugitive
as Justin Briggs
The Fugitive
as Ed Shrader