John Anderson

John Anderson

Nascimento : 1922-10-20, Clayton, Illinois, USA

Morte : 1992-08-07

História

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)).

Perfil

John Anderson

Filmes

John, 316
Story Editor
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 patients believe that he bears an uncanny resemblance to Jesus Christ.
Wyatt Earp: Retorno a Tombstone
Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)
Combinando imagens coloridas de 'A Vida e Legend of Wyatt Earp "a série de televisão com cenas novas filmado em Tombstone, Az em 1994, este filme mostra o retorno do lendário ex-marechal à sua antigo reduto.Ele visita velhos amigos, ensina alguns maus costumes e revela segredos sobre sua vida mais cedo.
Bed of Lies
Price Daniel, Sr.
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 to have been the son of the powerful ex-governor of Texas.
Daddy
George Watson
Oliver Watson has never been luckier: he is a successful advertising executive, shares a marriage of eighteen years with Sarah and has three loving kids: 17-year-old Ben, 15-year-old Melissa, and 9-year-old Sam. His perfect life suddenly falls apart when his wife Sarah announces that she wants to enter a graduate school 200 miles away from home, as she regrets that she gave up her bohemian protester's life and promising writing career to become the wife of a conservative traditionalist. Oliver unsuccessfully tries to save his marriage, until Sarah announces that she is seeing someone else. The children start acting out as a reaction and life is complicated by the death of Oliver’s mother and accepts a job in L.A. where he falls in love with Charlotte Sampson. Life again challenges Oliver when Charlotte is offered her dream job on Broadway.
Babe Ruth
Judge Landis
A film based on the home-run legend's life.
In Broad Daylight
Wes Westerman
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 saleswoman about Len's son not being able to pay his sweets triggers off his persecution complex. As revenge for the believed insult, the whole family starts stalking the shop owner and her husband... until this escalates and the old man gets badly injured. Len is arrested, but gets off, free on bail. His clever attorney delays the court session for more than a year - while Rowan keeps threatening the witnesses. But then, the people feel they've had enough of this and decide to take the law in their own hands...
Deadly Innocents
Gus
Angela (Amanda Wyss) 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 (Mary Crosby), who has a split personality, escapes from the sanitarium, she meets Angela. Beth tempts Angela to be a real girl by wearing Angela mother's clothes. Then both become a lethal combination.
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
George Dutton
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 involved into the underground world of pornography and prostitution.
Fora da Jogada
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
O dono do White Sox não quer recompensar o time pela espetacular temporada. Quando um consórcio de apostas fica ciente do descontentamento dos jogadores, oferece aos astros mais dinheiro para jogar mal do que receberiam se ganhassem o campeonato.
American Harvest
Judge Meriweather
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 past. Wayne Rogers, the patriarch of one of the families, is in danger of losing his wheat farm. He knows that his land will be saved if he patches things up with rival farmer Earl Holliman, but such a reconciliation is out of the question.
Scorpion
Noel G. Koch
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 bargain. Unfortunately, the terrorist organization attacks where the agent is guarding the man, wounding him and killing the agent's best friend. The agent decides to take down the terrorist organization on his own to avenge his friend's death at their hands.
Never Too Young to Die
Arliss
Secret agent Drew Stargrove is brutally murdered by the ruthless hermaphrodite gang leader Velvet Von Ragnar. The murdered secret agent's son, Lance Stargrove is thrust into the dangerous and intriguing world of secret agents and espionage when he seeks revenge. Danja Deerling teams up with Lance as his sidekick and love interest.
I-Man: O Homem Indestrutível
Holbrook
Ao tentar socorrer o motorista de um veículo da NASA, que havia se acidentado, Jeff Wilder é exposto a ação de um gás que estava sendo transportado e vazou. A partir deste momento, ele se torna um homem indestrutível e, de motorista de taxi passa a ser I-Man, uma espécie de super-herói, encarregado de deter um louco que havia sequestrado veículos militares e ameaçava a todos com destruição.
Sins of the Past
Rev. Donald Randolph
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 15 years later when another one of them is murdered and the rest realize that they are all being tracked by the same serial killer.
Crianças Adotadas
Stanley Willard
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 adopted out without her knowledge.
Bailes Mexicanos
Judge F.W. Charles
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 and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.
Desta Vez Te Agarro
Governor
O popular herói Bandit está passando por tempos ruins, mas fica feliz quando é contratado para ajudar a transportar uma elefanta grávida a uma convenção republicana, na cidade de Dallas. As complicações surgem quando o xerife Buford T. Justice, seu inimigo, descobre sobre a empreitada e resolve estragar o retorno do herói.
Out of the Blue
T.V. Interviewer
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 combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
In Search of Historic Jesus
Caiaphas
Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.
The Deerslayer
Hutter
Hawkeye and Chingachcook attempt to rescue the daughter of a chief who was captured by raiders from a rival tribe.
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of a route, the wagon train is soon decimated by Indian raids, a scarcity of food and water, and the unrelenting forces of nature. Finally after months of hardship, the party reaches the High Sierras, only to be stranded in the middle of the pass by an early snowstorm. And as fear of an agonizing death from starvation forces the abandonment of conventional rules of human behavior, the pioneers face a new enemy - each other.
The Last Hurrah
Amos Force
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, dissatisfied opponents, and his worries that his age and his ill health may have an effect on the election's outcome.
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Alexander Majors
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
Abraham Lincoln
Speculative Sunn Classics chestnut detailing a wide-ranging government conspiracy to murder the 16th American President and the subsequent cover up and escape of his killers.
Bridger
President Andrew Jackson
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 he can't do it, the territory will be lost to England.
The Dark Side of Innocence
Stephen Hancock
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 resents her walking out on the family, and her mother, whose own beliefs about marriage and family are jolted by her daughter's divorce.
The Specialist
Pike Smith
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
Jason Monroe
A government agent who is investigating a colleague's murder discovers a conspiracy to cover up a political assassination.
The Dove
Mike Turk
The true story of a 16 year old (Robin Lee Graham, played by Joseph Bottoms) who aims to become the youngest person to sail around the world in a 23 foot sloop named "The Dove". On his journey he meets and falls in love with a young woman (Patti Ratteree, played by Deborah Raffin) who is also traveling around the world. The story follows Robin around the world to many beautiful locals, as he grows from a boy to a man, finds himself, and finds the love of his life.
Manhunter
Aaron Denver
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 Bonnie-and-Clyde style bank robbers who murdered his former girlfriend.
Sorria, Jenny, Você Está Morta
Col. John Lockport
Harry Orwell has been retired from the force ever since he caught a bullet that lodged inoperably in his back. But that doesn’t mean the man called Harry O is out of the action. Moonlighting as a private sleuth, fighting off daily back pain and typically traveling by public bus instead of his own car (“It gives a man a chance to think”), he’s on the trail of the lowlife who murdered his pal’s son-in-law. It won’t be the only time the killer strikes before Harry closes in. David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series. Among the highlights: young Jodie Foster as Liberty, the wise-beyond-her-years homeless waif Harry befriends.
Heatwave!
Toler
A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.
O Assassinato de um Presidente
Halliday
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
Counselor at Crime
Don Vito Albanese
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the mêlée and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime.
Call to Danger
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
Henry Kealey
After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has second thoughts, and the town drunk has confessed to the crime.
Molly and Lawless John
Sheriff Marvin Parker
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 handsome young man named Johnny, plays on Molly's sympathy and convinces her to help him escape. Molly then accompanies Johnny on his cross-country flight but soon learns he's simply been using her. Molly makes the best of the situation, however, and by the time the sheriff's posse catches up with them, Molly shows that she's learned how to assert herself.
The Stepmother
Inspector Darnezi
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 and attempts to conceal the crime lead to more complications and death.
The Animals
Sheriff Allan Pierce
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 McAndrew is abducted by five outlaws headed by robber Pudge Elliott. The thugs rape Alice before leaving her for dead, but she is rescued by Chatto, an Apache chief. He restores her health and aids her in her bloodthirsty quest for revenge. With her sanity wavering, will Alice be able to find the men who tortured her?
Man and Boy
Stretch
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.
Quando é Preciso Ser Homem
Col. Iverson
Só há dois sobreviventes depois que um grupo de cavalaria é massacrado pelos Cheyenne. Honus, um Ingênuo soldado dedicado ao seu dever, e Cresta, uma jovem que viveu com os Cheyenne por dois anos e cujas simpatias estão mais com eles do que com o governo Americano. Juntos, eles tentam chegar a principal base da cavalaria.
Rififi no Harlem
Capt. Bryce
Dois policiais entram em uma reviravolta envolvendo um reverendo suspeito, que organiza viagens para a áfrica para os habitantes do Harlem, bairro predominantemente negro nos Estados Unidos
The Andersonville Trial
Ambrose Spencer
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
O Pistoleiro Marcado
Boone
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 an old score to settle with the town's chief trouble-maker. Once on the job, Kane must also deal with a young sharpshooter named Billy Young and a sharp and sassy saloon dancer, Lily.
The Great Bank Robbery
Mayor Kincaid
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
Heaven with a Gun
Ase Beck
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 feud between sheep ranchers and cattlemen. Leloopa, a young Native American woman, pleads for Killian's help after her shepherd father is hung by Coke Beck, the vicious son of the head cattle rancher. Killian must weigh his actions carefully lest he perpetuate the cycle of retribution and revenge.
5 Card Stud
Marshal Dana
Quando um apostador é flagrado roubando na mesa de pôquer de Van Morgan, o trapaceiro é enforcado pelos oponentes. Morgan deixa a cidade, mas retorna ao saber que os agressores começaram a morrer um a um.
A Man Called Gannon
Capper
A seasoned cowboy takes a young tender-foot under his wing. They become embroiled in a range war, and end up on opposite sides.
A Pistola do Mal
Captain Jefferson Addis
Lorn Warfield regressa a casa após ter criado, durante três anos, a reputação de grande pistoleiro. Encontra o seu rancho em ruínas e descobre que a mulher e as filhas foram levadas pelos índios apache. Por intermédio de um velho e aparentemente louco comerciante, que em tempos negociou com os índios, consegue uma pista e uma esperança de encontrar a família com vida.
O Homem com a Morte nos Olhos
Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple
A história se passa em uma pequena cidade do velho oeste, onde um implacável criminoso segue à solta cometendo crimes bárbaros sem ser punido.
Tirado dos Braços da Morte
Dietrich
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 new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge.
Uma Loura Por Um Milhão
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Um câmera acidenta-se durante um jogo de futebol americano e seu cunhado, um inescrupuloso advogado, arquiteta um plano para conseguir uma indenização milionária. Um operador de câmera é derrubado durante um jogo de futebol. Seu cunhado advogado, o rei da perseguição de ambulâncias, imediatamente inicia um processo enquanto ele ainda está nocauteado. O operador de câmera fica contra o cunhado até ouvir que sua ex-esposa está vindo para vê-lo. Então ele finge que se feriu para recuperar a esposa, mas se angustia quando vê o que a tensão desse episódio está fazendo para o jogador de futebol que o feriu.
Namu, the Killer Whale
Joe Clausen
Based on the amazing true story of a marine biologist (Robert Lansing) who befriends a six-ton Orcawhale, this "honest, fascinating and vigorously wholesome film" (Citizen-News) is heartwarming fun for the whole family. Like all close pals, Hank (Lansing) and Namu love spending time together. Whether sharing a morning swim or soaking up the afternoon sun, these two are virtually inseparable. Trouble is, the local fishermen mistakenly think that Namu is a threat. Racing against time, Hank must enlist the help of a young widow and her daughter to save Namu and prove that he's a gentle giant!
Scalplock
Standish
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 full holding it from the clutches of various conniving bad guys.
Nas Trilhas da Aventura
Sgt. Buell
O aclamado diretor John Sturges (Sete Homens e um Destino, Sem Lei Sem Alma) vira todas as lendas do Oeste de cabeça para baixo nesta estupenda comédia sobre o ano em que Denver quase foi devastada por um dilúvio - de whisky - e teve que ter quarenta carregamentos importados trazidos por um território cruel - e sedento! Os premiados Burt Lancaster e Martin Landau juntam-se à ótima Lee Remick neste lindamente filmado épico de aventura que tem "tanto gargalhadas quanto arrepios" (The Hollywood Reporter)! Também estrelando Jim Hutton, Brian Keith e Donald Pleasence, esse irreverente e literalmente seco olhar sobre a fronteira americana é "possivelmente o western mais engraçado já feito!"
O Mundo Marcha Para o Fim
Agent Reagan
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 big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.
For the Love of Willadean
Farmer Wills
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 a prize watermelon to the dismay of the furious farmer, and later dare him to enter a supposedly haunted house in which they uncover a bag of money stolen in a bank robbery.
Os Pistoleiros da Noite
Elder Hammond
O mundo está mudando e para um velho homem da lei como Steve Judd, não há muitas oportunidades de trabalho. Ele aceita trabalhar para um banco para transportar um carregamento de ouro através de um território perigoso. Ele contrata o velho parceiro Gil Westrum e seu jovem pupilo Heck para ajudá-lo. Mas não sabe que Gil e Heck planejam roubar o ouro com ou sem a sua ajuda. Na fuga, os três se envolvem no desejo de uma jovem mulher de escapar tanto de seu pai como de seu noivo e seus irmãos perigosamente psicóticos.
Geronimo: Sangue de Apache
Jeremiah Burns
Em 1883, os índios Apache liderados por Geronimo se rendem relutantemente aos ataques das tropas americanas e mexicanas, em troca de um território e alimento para seus guerreiros. Logo, porém, Geronimo escapa dos campos e declara guerra contra os americanos.
Pelos Bairros do Vício
Preacher
At the Doll House, a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the truth of her profession he triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young Kitty with whom he travelled from Texas and who is now the Doll House newest recruit.
O Pior Calhambeque do Mundo
Sailor (uncredited)
O Tenente Rip Crandall é enganado para assumir o comando do "Pior Calhambeque do Mundo" - um lixo de barco com uma tripulação de desajustados que não sabem a diferença entre popa e proa. O que nenhum deles sabe, incluindo Crandall, é que este barco tem uma muito importante missão secreta para cumprir em águas patrulhadas pela frota japonesa. Sua missão será salvar centenas de vidas aliadas - só eles podem chegar até lá inteiros.
Psicose
California Charlie
Marion Crane é uma secretária que rouba 40 mil dólares da imobiliária onde trabalha para se casar e começar uma nova vida. Durante a fuga à carro, ela enfrenta uma forte tempestade, erra o caminho e chega em um velho hotel. O estabelecimento é administrado por um sujeito atencioso chamado Norman Bates, que nutre um forte respeito e temor por sua mãe. Marion decide passar a noite no local, sem saber o perigo que a cerca.
Duelo de Titãs
Salesman
A mulher índia do xerife Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas) é violentada e morta por uma dupla de cowboys. As investigações de Morgan o levam a Gun Hill, cidade dominada pelo seu amigo e rico fazendeiro Craig Belden (Anthony Quinn). Ele acaba descobrindo que um dos homens que procura é o jovem e mimado filho de Belden. Determinado a levá-lo para julgamento, Morgan entra em choque com seu amigo, que por sua vez tenta impedí-lo a todo custo.
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
Doc (uncredited)
When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan to use her as an undercover agent.
A Raposa do Deserto
O marechal Rommel, especialista de Hitler em táticas militares na Segunda Guerra Mundial, era conhecido como a Raposa do Deserto. Respeitado por seguidores e adversários, ao ver que Hitler estava levando a Alemanha à destruição, uniu-se a conspiradores para depor o Fürher.