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John Anderson
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)).
As actor
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Bed of Lies
In Broad Daylight
Daddy
Babe Ruth
Follow Your Heart
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
Deadly Innocents
Eight Men Out
American Harvest
I-Man
Never Too Young to Die
Scorpion
Sins of the Past
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
The First Time
Zoot Suit
Out of the Blue
Smokey and the Bandit II
In Search of Historic Jesus
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
The Deerslayer
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Force of Evil
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
The Last Hurrah
The Quest
The Dark Side of Innocence
Bridger
The Specialist