John Robert Anderson (October 20, 1922 β 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)).
as Fisk Madden
as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
as Price Daniel, Sr.
as George Watson
as Judge Landis
as Wes Westerman
as Josh Lowe
as Gus
as Pat Knight(1 ep)
as George Dutton
as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
as Kevin Uxbridge(1 ep)
as Ace Thompson(1 ep)
as Judge Meriweather
as Noel G. Koch
as Warren(1 ep)
as Arliss
as Brig. Gen. Brooke(3 eps)
as Holbrook
as Sam Chandler(1 ep)
as William Hazard(1 ep)
as Harry Jackson(5 eps)
as Andrew Dixon(1 ep)
as Winston Taggert(1 ep)
as Rev. Donald Randolph
as Stanley Willard
as Paul Cooper
as Captain Stark(1 ep)
as General Frye(1 ep)
as Judge F.W. Charles
as T.V. Interviewer
as Governor
as Col. Clayborn(1 ep)
as Caiaphas
as Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt(4 eps)
as Thomas Singer(1 ep)
as Hutter
as Patrick Breen
as Dr. Herbert Styles(7 eps)
as Amos Force
as Alexander Majors
as Mike Calahan(1 ep)
as Abraham Lincoln
as Russell Grainger(1 ep)
as Sheriff John Carrington
as Floyd Carrington(1 ep)
as Justin DeWilde(1 ep)
as Chief Frank Ollano(1 ep)
as Movie Director(1 ep)
as Scotty(7 eps)
as President Andrew Jackson
as Stephen Hancock
as Army Officer
as Capt. Lewis
as Pike Smith
as Colonel Hecker(1 ep)
as Jason Monroe
as Gerald A. O'Malley(1 ep)
as Amos Pike(1 ep)
as Joshua Forbes(1 ep)
as Mike Turk
as Aaron Denver
as Col. John Lockport
as Toler
as President Lincoln
as Halliday
as Don Vito Albanese
as Jomer Cruett
as Edward McClure
as Henry Kealey
as Sheriff Marvin Parker
as Inspector Darnezi
as Jack Youngblood(1 ep)
as Wray(1 ep)
as Benjamin Dundee(1 ep)
as General Collins(1 ep)
as Mr. Charlie Colton(1 ep)
as Captain Bob Roberts(1 ep)
as The Sheriff(1 ep)
as Judge Juan O'Brien(1 ep)
as Stretch
as Col. Iverson
as Capt. Bryce
as Ambrose Spencer
as Sheriff Allan Pierce
as Boone
as Mayor Kincaid
as Brig. General Earl Rigney(1 ep)
as Ase Beck
as Marshal Dana
as Capper
as Captain Jefferson Addis
as George Blake(1 ep)
as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
as Dietrich
as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
as Major Indrus(2 eps)
as Gen. Owen Lansbury(1 ep)
as Lt. Mike Reineck(1 ep)
as Joe Clausen
as Standish
as Adam MacDonald(1 ep)
as Bollin(1 ep)
as Matt Bentell(2 eps)
as Moss Canby(1 ep)
as Sgt. Buell
as Agent Reagan
as Farmer Wills
as Rankin(1 ep)
as Capt. Farrow(1 ep)
as Colonel Knowlton(1 ep)
as Justin Briggs(1 ep)
as Ed Shrader(1 ep)
as Ebonite Interrogator(1 ep)
as Joe Hammond(1 ep)
as Luke Hunter(1 ep)
as Adam(1 ep)
as Major Cass(1 ep)
as Adam Tercell(1 ep)
as Jeremiah Chilton(1 ep)
as Deputy Sheriff Sam Morrell(1 ep)
as Sam McLain(1 ep)
as Seth James(1 ep)
as James Bradley(1 ep)
as Jim Bradley(1 ep)
as Elder Hammond
as Jeremiah Burns
as Preacher
as Vernon Hackett(1 ep)
as Kenneth Drake(1 ep)
as Sailor (uncredited)
as Earl(1 ep)
as Bill Horton(1 ep)
as Cole Dawson(1 ep)
as Leth Ritchie(1 ep)
as Jacob Grant(1 ep)
as California Charlie
as Benson(1 ep)
as Ezra Taber(1 ep)
as Capt. 'Skipper' Farver(1 ep)
as Deidrich(1 ep)
as Goldsmith(1 ep)
as Gabriel(1 ep)
as Cartwright(1 ep)
as Clyde Santee(1 ep)
as Matthew Bannock(1 ep)
as Jeb Wicken(1 ep)
as Sam Masters(1 ep)
as Gorman(1 ep)
as Tulsa Weems(1 ep)
as Salesman
as Clyde Wicker(2 eps)
as Captain James Rankin(1 ep)
as Maj. Cantwell(1 ep)
as Major Liam Mars(1 ep)
as Hassayampa Edwards(1 ep)
as Wayne Raven(1 ep)
as Samuel Gibbs(1 ep)
as Owny Kincaid(1 ep)
as Sergeant Bulla(1 ep)
as Deputy Sheriff Fix(1 ep)
as McCall(1 ep)
as George Andrews(1 ep)
as Bud Ferrand(1 ep)
as Dan O'Malley(1 ep)
as Fred Cooley(1 ep)
as Paul Russell(1 ep)
as Fisk Madden(1 ep)
as Roy Kelsey(1 ep)
as Marshal Cal Lazenby(1 ep)
as John Duncan(1 ep)
as Nicholson(1 ep)
as Attendant(1 ep)
as Ben Siple(1 ep)
as Yermo(1 ep)
as Delliver(1 ep)
as Cheevers(1 ep)
as Pa Gibbijohn(1 ep)
as Les McConnell(2 eps)
as Roberts(1 ep)
as Jess Fletcher(1 ep)
as Amos Sadler(1 ep)
as Lemuel Cleary(1 ep)
as Adam Kimbro(1 ep)
as Virgil Earp(5 eps)
as Amos Force(1 ep)
as Theater manager(1 ep)