John Robert Anderson October 20 1922 August 7 1992 A tall sinewy austerelooking 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 sciencefiction 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 tuxedoclad angel Gabriel in A Passage for Trumpet doing for Jack Klugman what Henry Travers did for James Stewart in Its a Wonderful Life 1946
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