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John Anderson

Oct 20, 1922 - Aug 07, 1992 (69 years old) in Clayton, Illinois, USA

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)).

Known For

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Lassie
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Dallas
Dr. Herbert Styles
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M*A*S*H
General Collins
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Kevin Uxbridge
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Have Gun, Will Travel
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MacGyver
Harry Jackson
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Hawaii Five-O
Brig. General Earl Rigney
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Quincy, M.E.
Justin DeWilde
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Perry Mason
George Andrews
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The Twilight Zone
Capt. 'Skipper' Farver

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