
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 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 George Dutton

as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis

as Judge Meriweather

as Noel G. Koch

as Arliss

as Holbrook

as Rev. Donald Randolph

as Stanley Willard

as Paul Cooper

as Judge F.W. Charles

as T.V. Interviewer

as Governor

as Caiaphas

as Hutter

as Patrick Breen

as Amos Force

as Alexander Majors

as Abraham Lincoln

as Sheriff John Carrington

as President Andrew Jackson

as Stephen Hancock

as Army Officer

as Capt. Lewis

as Pike Smith

as Jason Monroe

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 Stretch

as Col. Iverson

as Capt. Bryce

as Ambrose Spencer

as Sheriff Allan Pierce

as Boone

as Mayor Kincaid

as Ase Beck

as Marshal Dana

as Capper

as Captain Jefferson Addis

as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple

as Dietrich

as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)

as Joe Clausen

as Standish

as Sgt. Buell

as Agent Reagan

as Farmer Wills

as Elder Hammond

as Jeremiah Burns

as Preacher

as Sailor (uncredited)

as California Charlie

as Salesman

as Fisk Madden