John Anderson (Actor)

Reviews of John Anderson Movies

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Movies starring John Anderson have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.

Psycho - released in 1960 - is John Anderson's highest rated movie, with a score of 89% based on 945 reviews.

The lowest rated film from John Anderson is Molly and Lawless John - released in 1972 - with a score of 36% based on 1 reviews.

Actor Biography

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)).

John Anderson has acted in films with Whit Bissell, Richard Bull, Paul Fix and David Carradine.

John Anderson has worked with these film directors: John Sturges, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder and Sam Peckinpah.