John Anderson
Birthday: 1922-10-20
Place of Birth: Clayton, Illinois, USA
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)).
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Psycho
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starti...
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Heaven with a Gun
Jim Killian arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preache...
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5 Card Stud
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one....
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The Satan Bug
A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has ...
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Eight Men Out
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning ...
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I-Man
When a man is exposed to an alien gas, he acquires the ability to heal instantly and survive any inj...
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Executive Action
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot...
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Soldier Blue
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive privat...
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Ride the High Country
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But wha...
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Geronimo
In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Me...
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Scalplock
This Western is a pilot for the series "The Iron Horse," in which a dapper frontier gambler wins a r...
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Young Billy Young
A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lords, in the old West. Kane is n...
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24 Hour Psycho
24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. The wor...
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Namu, the Killer Whale
Based on the amazing true story of a marine biologist (Robert Lansing) who befriends a six-ton Orcaw...
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Zoot Suit
Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play...
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Smile Jenny, You're Dead
David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of ...
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The Animals
A woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old West...
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The Stepmother
Returning home from a business trip, an architect assumes that a client is having an affair with his...
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
Speculates that John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being t...
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Manhunter
Pilot movie for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bou...
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The Force of Evil
A murderer on parole victimizes a family against whom he holds a grudge....
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The Great Bank Robbery
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas...
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Man and Boy
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier...
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In Broad Daylight
The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small...
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Welcome to Hard Times
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its surv...
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The Quest
Eight years ago, Cheyenne Indians attacked the Baudine Family wagon and captured Morgan, whom they r...
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Daddy
Oliver Watson has never been luckier: he is a successful advertising executive, shares a marriage of...
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A Covenant with Death
An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he ...
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Follow Your Heart
An ex-marine, in search of some defining life direction, unexpectedly faces a hurdle when his jeep b...
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Last Train from Gun Hill
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the ra...
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In Search of Historic Jesus
This examination of historical sources speculates on the accuracy of the biblical depiction of Jesus...
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Heatwave!
A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by esc...
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The Dark Side of Innocence
A suburban housewife's feeling that her life is standing still causes her to divorce her husband. Th...
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Molly and Lawless John
Molly, the shy, romance-starved wife of an arrogant frontier sheriff, finds herself drawn to a priso...
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Set This Town on Fire
After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the...
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler....
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A Man Called Gannon
A seasoned cowboy takes a young tender-foot under his wing. They become embroiled in a range war, an...
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a rea...
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The Fortune Cookie
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance...
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Smokey and the Bandit II
The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, o...
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Missing Children: A Mother's Story
A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new h...
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Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil...
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The Last Hurrah
The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in...
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Day of the Evil Gun
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!...
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The Andersonville Trial
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate ...
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Cotton Comes to Harlem
Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly ...
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The True Story of Lynn Stuart
When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of na...
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The Specialist
Jerry Bounds, an upright lawyer, must stand up against Pike Smith and his the water company's effort...
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The Dove
16-year-old Robin Lee Graham aims to become the youngest person to sail around the world in a 23-foo...
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Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Combining colorized footage from the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) with...
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Never Too Young to Die
Secret agent Drew Stargrove is brutally murdered by the ruthless hermaphrodite gang leader Velvet Vo...
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The Hallelujah Trail
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance...
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Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
A high-priced call girl who has been secretly videotaping her rich clients is shot to death. An inve...
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Deadly Innocents
Angela is a sensitive teenager and her fanatically religious father has forced her to dress and work...
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Counselor at Crime
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio a...
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Call to Danger
A federal agent recruits a computer whiz to try to free a Mafia witness who has been kidnapped and h...
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Walk on the Wild Side
At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam...
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American Harvest
American Harvest is set in the heartland of Kansas. Two proud, stubborn families have not spoken to ...
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Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing...
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The Deerslayer
Frontiersman Hawkeye and his blood brother Chingachgook attempt to rescue the daughter of a chief wh...
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Sins of the Past
A ring of call girls leaves the "business" when one of them is murdered. The survivors change their ...
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Scorpion
A top counter-intelligence agent thwarts a hijacking and is assigned to protect one of the terrorist...
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Bed of Lies
Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaitin...
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For the Love of Willadean
A new boy, Harley, joins a club but shows an interest in the girl on whom the club leader has a crus...
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Bridger
The story of famous frontiersman Jim Bridger, who is given 40 days to cut a trail through the Rocky ...
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Out of the Blue
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to confor...
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Dead Man on the Run
A government agent who is investigating a colleague's murder discovers a conspiracy to cover up a po...
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The First Time
An emotionally troubled teenage girl drops out of high school and travels with her boyfriend to San ...
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Rebel Range
A Union law allows homes vacated by confederates to be sold at auction. A woman comes back to claim ...
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Lincoln: Trial by Fire
Cliff Robertson narrates this dramatization focuses on the little-known life-and-death struggle of p...
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Death Among Friends
Shirley investigates the murder of a millionaire who was strangled on his tennis court....
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