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)).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.8295 |
| Birthday | 1922-10-20 |
| Place of Birth | Clayton, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | John R. Anderson, |
1960
Psycho
8.415/10948
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...
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Psycho
1969
Heaven with a Gun
5.481/26
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...
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Heaven with a Gun
1968
5 Card Stud
6.294/90
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.
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5 Card Stud
1965
The Satan Bug
6.112/58
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...
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The Satan Bug
1988
Eight Men Out
6.881/270
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...
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Eight Men Out
1986
I-Man
5.571/7
When a man is exposed to an alien gas, he acquires the ability to heal instantly and survive any injury or toxin.
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I-Man
1973
Executive Action
6.458/48
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this specu...
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Executive Action
1970
Soldier Blue
6.803/221
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...
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Soldier Blue
1962
Ride the High Country
7.059/247
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...
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Ride the High Country
1962
Geronimo
5.524/42
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...
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Geronimo
1966
Scalplock
6.75/2
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...
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Scalplock
1969
Young Billy Young
6.043/35
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...
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Young Billy Young
1993
24 Hour Psycho
4/2
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...
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24 Hour Psycho
1966
Namu, the Killer Whale
5.313/8
Based on the amazing true story of a marine biologist (Robert Lansing) who befriends a six-ton Orcawhale, this "honest, fascinating and vigorously who...
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Namu, the Killer Whale
1981
Zoot Suit
6.432/22
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...
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Zoot Suit
1974
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
6.813/8
David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series....
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Smile Jenny, You're Dead
1970
The Animals
3.923/13
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...
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The Animals
1972
The Stepmother
4.067/15
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...
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The Stepmother
1977
The Lincoln Conspiracy
6/12
Speculates that John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassinatio...
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
1974
Manhunter
6.667/3
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...
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Manhunter
1977
The Force of Evil
6/4
A murderer on parole victimizes a family against whom he holds a grudge.
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The Force of Evil
1969
The Great Bank Robbery
6.625/12
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
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The Great Bank Robbery
1971
Man and Boy
6.667/3
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.
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Man and Boy
1991
In Broad Daylight
6.125/8
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...
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In Broad Daylight
1967
Welcome to Hard Times
5.308/26
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
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Welcome to Hard Times
1976
The Quest
8.5/2
Eight years ago, Cheyenne Indians attacked the Baudine Family wagon and captured Morgan, whom they renamed Two Persons. Now Two Persons, raised in the...
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The Quest
1991
Daddy
4.8/10
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...
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Daddy
1967
A Covenant with Death
4.846/13
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...
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A Covenant with Death
1990
Follow Your Heart
10/1
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...
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Follow Your Heart
1959
Last Train from Gun Hill
7.13/220
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.
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Last Train from Gun Hill
1979
In Search of Historic Jesus
5.5/4
This examination of historical sources speculates on the accuracy of the biblical depiction of Jesus.
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In Search of Historic Jesus
1974
Heatwave!
6.111/9
A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.
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Heatwave!
1976
The Dark Side of Innocence
9/1
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...
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The Dark Side of Innocence
1972
Molly and Lawless John
3.8/5
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...
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Molly and Lawless John
1973
Set This Town on Fire
7/1
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...
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Set This Town on Fire
1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
6.717/113
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1968
A Man Called Gannon
4.9/10
A seasoned cowboy takes a young tender-foot under his wing. They become embroiled in a range war, and end up on opposite sides.
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A Man Called Gannon
1960
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
6/38
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...
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1966
The Fortune Cookie
7.163/347
TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law...
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The Fortune Cookie
1980
Smokey and the Bandit II
5.549/316
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...
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Smokey and the Bandit II
1982
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
7.5/4
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...
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Missing Children: A Mother's Story
1977
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
7/1
A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.
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Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
1977
The Last Hurrah
0/0
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,...
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The Last Hurrah
1968
Day of the Evil Gun
6.214/28
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!
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Day of the Evil Gun
1970
The Andersonville Trial
7.2/5
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
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The Andersonville Trial
1970
Cotton Comes to Harlem
6.23/63
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...
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Cotton Comes to Harlem
1958
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
7/5
When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan...
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The True Story of Lynn Stuart
1975
The Specialist
4.667/6
Jerry Bounds, an upright lawyer, must stand up against Pike Smith and his the water company's efforts to exploit a local lake.
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The Specialist
1974
The Dove
6.682/11
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...
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The Dove
1994
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
6.5/15
Combining colorized footage from the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) with new scenes shot in Tombstone, Arizona, this film...
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Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
1991
Babe Ruth
6/1
A film based on the home-run legend's life.
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Babe Ruth
1986
Never Too Young to Die
4.723/56
Secret agent Drew Stargrove is brutally murdered by the ruthless hermaphrodite gang leader Velvet Von Ragnar. The murdered secret agent's son, Lance S...
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Never Too Young to Die
1965
The Hallelujah Trail
6.099/96
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...
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The Hallelujah Trail
1989
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
4.833/9
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...
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Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
1989
Deadly Innocents
7.75/4
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...
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Deadly Innocents
1973
Counselor at Crime
5.6/15
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...
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Counselor at Crime
1973
Call to Danger
9/1
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.
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Call to Danger
1962
Walk on the Wild Side
6.543/69
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...
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Walk on the Wild Side
1987
American Harvest
9/1
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...
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American Harvest
1978
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
9/1
A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach Ca...
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Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
1978
The Deerslayer
6/3
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...
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The Deerslayer
1984
Sins of the Past
5.2/5
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...
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Sins of the Past
1986
Scorpion
4.563/8
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...
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Scorpion
1992
Bed of Lies
6/2
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...
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Bed of Lies
1964
For the Love of Willadean
6/1
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...
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For the Love of Willadean
1976
Bridger
10/1
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...
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Bridger
1981
Out of the Blue
6.9/94
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...
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Out of the Blue
1975
Dead Man on the Run
7.5/2
A government agent who is investigating a colleague's murder discovers a conspiracy to cover up a political assassination.
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Dead Man on the Run
1973
Hitched
7.333/3
The adventures of a newly married teenage couple in the Old West.
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Hitched
1982
The First Time
4/1
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...
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The First Time
Rebel Range
0/0
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...
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Rebel Range
1974
Lincoln: Trial by Fire
0/0
Cliff Robertson narrates this dramatization focuses on the little-known life-and-death struggle of power between President Lincoln and his general in...
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Lincoln: Trial by Fire
1975
Death Among Friends
4.9/5
Shirley investigates the murder of a millionaire who was strangled on his tennis court.
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Death Among Friends
The American Adventure
7/1
An animatronic Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain take viewers on an exploration of America's rich history in the EPCOT attraction.
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