John Anderson

John Anderson

1922-10-20 Clayton, Illinois, USA 73 Credits

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...

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John, 316

John, 316

2021

Story Editor

4.7
Writing

A psychiatric hospital is turned upside down when a mysterious drifter is admitted and assigned to room 316. Known only as John Doe, the other patient...

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

1994

as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)

6.2
Acting

Combining colorized footage from the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) with new scenes shot in Tombstone, Arizona, this film ...

24 Hour Psycho

24 Hour Psycho

1993

as California Charlie (archive footage)

4.0
Acting

24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. The work consists entirely of an appropriation of Alfred ...

Bed of Lies

Bed of Lies

1992

as Price Daniel, Sr.

5.0
Acting

Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaiting trial for the murder of her husband, who happens...

Daddy

Daddy

1991

as George Watson

4.4
Acting

Oliver Watson has never been luckier: he is a successful advertising executive, shares a marriage of eighteen years with Sarah and has three loving ki...

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

1991

as Judge Landis

6.0
Acting

A film based on the home-run legend's life.

In Broad Daylight

In Broad Daylight

1991

as Wes Westerman

5.7
Acting

The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswom...

Follow Your Heart

Follow Your Heart

1990

as Josh Lowe

Acting

An ex-marine, in search of some defining life direction, unexpectedly faces a hurdle when his jeep breaks down in a sparsely populated Wyoming town. W...

Deadly Innocents

Deadly Innocents

1989

as Gus

8.0
Acting

Angela is a sensitive teenager and her fanatically religious father has forced her to dress and work like a boy in his gas station. When Beth, who has...

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal

1989

as George Dutton

4.6
Acting

A high-priced call girl who has been secretly videotaping her rich clients is shot to death. An investigation of her murder ensues, bringing those inv...

Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out

1988

as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis

6.9
Acting

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching...

American Harvest

American Harvest

1987

as Judge Meriweather

Acting

American Harvest is set in the heartland of Kansas. Two proud, stubborn families have not spoken to one another because of an incident in the distant ...

Scorpion

Scorpion

1986

as Noel G. Koch

4.3
Acting

A top counter-intelligence agent thwarts a hijacking and is assigned to protect one of the terrorists who plan to turn evidence over for a plea bargai...

Never Too Young to Die

Never Too Young to Die

1986

as Arliss

4.6
Acting

Secret agent Drew Stargrove is brutally murdered by the ruthless hermaphrodite gang leader Velvet Von Ragnar. The murdered secret agent's son, Lance S...

I-Man

I-Man

1986

as Holbrook

5.0
Acting

When a man is exposed to an alien gas, he acquires the ability to heal instantly and survive any injury or toxin.

Sins of the Past

Sins of the Past

1984

as Rev. Donald Randolph

5.0
Acting

A ring of call girls leaves the "business" when one of them is murdered. The survivors change their names and leave town. However, they are reunited 1...

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

1982

as Stanley Willard

6.7
Acting

A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new home, but returns to find that they have been adopt...

The First Time

The First Time

1982

as Paul Cooper

4.0
Acting

An emotionally troubled teenage girl drops out of high school and travels with her boyfriend to San Diego, while the girl's mother enlists the help of...

Zoot Suit

Zoot Suit

1981

as Judge F.W. Charles

6.1
Acting

Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case an...

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue

1981

as T.V. Interviewer

6.9
Acting

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combinatio...

Smokey and the Bandit II

Smokey and the Bandit II

1980

as Governor

5.5
Acting

The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tai...

In Search of Historic Jesus

1979

as Caiaphas

4.3
Acting

Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.

The Deerslayer

The Deerslayer

1978

as Hutter

5.0
Acting

Frontiersman Hawkeye and his blood brother Chingachgook attempt to rescue the daughter of a chief who was captured by raiders from a rival tribe in th...

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

1978

as Patrick Breen

Acting

A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach Ca...

The Last Hurrah

The Last Hurrah

1977

as Amos Force

Acting

The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young,...

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

1977

as Alexander Majors

7.0
Acting

A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.

The Lincoln Conspiracy

The Lincoln Conspiracy

1977

as Abraham Lincoln

5.6
Acting

Speculative hokum about John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assa...

The Force of Evil

The Force of Evil

1977

as Sheriff John Carrington

6.0
Acting

A murderer on parole victimizes a family against whom he holds a grudge.

Bridger

Bridger

1976

as President Andrew Jackson

Acting

The story of famous frontiersman Jim Bridger, who is given 40 days to cut a trail through the Rocky Mountains to the California coast and told that if...

The Dark Side of Innocence

The Dark Side of Innocence

1976

as Stephen Hancock

Acting

A suburban housewife's feeling that her life is standing still causes her to divorce her husband. This causes tension with her daughter, who bitterly ...

The Quest

The Quest

1976

as Army Officer

10.0
Acting

Eight years ago, Cheyenne Indians attacked the Baudine Family wagon and captured Morgan, whom they renamed Two Persons. Now Two Persons, raised in the...

The Specialist

The Specialist

1975

as Pike Smith

3.5
Acting

Jerry Bounds, an upright lawyer, must stand up against Pike Smith and his the water company's efforts to exploit a local lake.

Dead Man on the Run

Dead Man on the Run

1975

as Jason Monroe

6.0
Acting

A government agent who is investigating a colleague's murder discovers a conspiracy to cover up a political assassination.

The Dove

The Dove

1974

as Mike Turk

6.3
Acting

16-year-old Robin Lee Graham aims to become the youngest person to sail around the world in a 23-foot sloop named "The Dove". On his journey, he meets...

Manhunter

Manhunter

1974

as Aaron Denver

6.5
Acting

Pilot movie for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bounty-hunter, named Dave Barrett, who goes after two...

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

1974

as Col. John Lockport

6.1
Acting

David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series....

Heatwave!

Heatwave!

1974

as Toler

5.9
Acting

A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.

Executive Action

Executive Action

1973

as Halliday

6.4
Acting

Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this specu...

Counselor at Crime

Counselor at Crime

1973

as Don Vito Albanese

5.6
Acting

When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either on...

Call to Danger

Call to Danger

1973

as Edward McClure

Acting

A federal agent recruits a computer whiz to try to free a Mafia witness who has been kidnapped and held in a heavily fortified compound.

Set This Town on Fire

1973

as Henry Kealey

Acting

After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has seco...

Molly and Lawless John

Molly and Lawless John

1972

as Sheriff Marvin Parker

3.0
Acting

Molly, the shy, romance-starved wife of an arrogant frontier sheriff, finds herself drawn to a prisoner in her husband's jail. This prisoner, a handso...

The Stepmother

The Stepmother

1972

as Inspector Darnezi

3.9
Acting

Returning home from a business trip, an architect assumes that a client is having an affair with his wife and murders the man. His feelings of guilt a...

Man and Boy

Man and Boy

1971

as Stretch

6.0
Acting

At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.

Hitched

Hitched

1971

as Jomer Cruett

6.0
Acting

The adventures of a newly married teenage couple in the Old West.

Soldier Blue

Soldier Blue

1970

as Col. Iverson

6.8
Acting

After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman w...

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem

1970

as Capt. Bryce

6.2
Acting

Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of...

The Andersonville Trial

The Andersonville Trial

1970

as Ambrose Spencer

6.7
Acting

A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.

The Animals

The Animals

1970

as Sheriff Allan Pierce

3.7
Acting

A woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old West to her new home, young schoolteacher Alice McAndr...

Young Billy Young

Young Billy Young

1969

as Boone

5.9
Acting

A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lords, in the old West. Kane is no lawman, but he accepts the badge because he has ...

The Great Bank Robbery

The Great Bank Robbery

1969

as Mayor Kincaid

6.3
Acting

A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.

Heaven with a Gun

Heaven with a Gun

1969

as Ase Beck

5.5
Acting

Jim Killian arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preacher, but he soon finds himself in the middle of a fe...

5 Card Stud

5 Card Stud

1968

as Marshal Dana

6.2
Acting

The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.

A Man Called Gannon

A Man Called Gannon

1968

as Capper

4.4
Acting

A seasoned cowboy takes a young tender-foot under his wing. They become embroiled in a range war, and end up on opposite sides.

Day of the Evil Gun

Day of the Evil Gun

1968

as Captain Jefferson Addis

6.2
Acting

Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!

Welcome to Hard Times

Welcome to Hard Times

1967

as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple

5.0
Acting

A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.

A Covenant with Death

A Covenant with Death

1967

as Dietrich

5.0
Acting

An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a...

The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie

1966

as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)

7.2
Acting

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still k...

Namu, the Killer Whale

Namu, the Killer Whale

1966

as Joe Clausen

4.4
Acting

Based on the amazing true story of a marine biologist (Robert Lansing) who befriends a six-ton Orcawhale, this "honest, fascinating and vigorously who...

Scalplock

Scalplock

1966

as Standish

6.5
Acting

This Western is a pilot for the series "The Iron Horse," in which a dapper frontier gambler wins a railroad line in a poker game and has his hands ful...

The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail

1965

as Sgt. Buell

6.1
Acting

A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local ...

The Satan Bug

The Satan Bug

1965

as Agent Reagan

6.1
Acting

A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The b...

For the Love of Willadean

For the Love of Willadean

1964

as Farmer Wills

6.0
Acting

A new boy, Harley, joins a club but shows an interest in the girl on whom the club leader has a crush. The two club members trick Harley into stealing...

Ride the High Country

Ride the High Country

1962

as Elder Hammond

7.0
Acting

An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old f...

Geronimo

Geronimo

1962

as Jeremiah Burns

5.4
Acting

In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Mexican troops, in exchange for a territory and food...

Walk on the Wild Side

Walk on the Wild Side

1962

as Preacher

6.6
Acting

At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick sweet...

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

1960

as Sailor (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't kn...

Psycho

Psycho

1960

as California Charlie

8.4
Acting

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates ...

Last Train from Gun Hill

Last Train from Gun Hill

1959

as Salesman

7.1
Acting

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

The True Story of Lynn Stuart

The True Story of Lynn Stuart

1958

as Doc

6.3
Acting

When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan...

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

1951

6.7
Acting

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

1946

Assistant Director

5.2
Directing

A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.

Rebel Range

Rebel Range

N/A

as Fisk Madden

Acting

A Union law allows homes vacated by confederates to be sold at auction. A woman comes back to claim her home irregardless of the fact that it is lawfu...