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Acting

John Anderson

Career: Active from 1958 to 1992, busiest in 1974 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 10
top three billing

Average score: 55/100

Highest rated: In Broad Daylight
73/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 125 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

John Anderson Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.7, average 5.4
Fantasy
0.6, average 1.7
Cringe Humor
1.1, average 2.2
Absurdist Humor
1.0, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 4
Social Commentary 4
Political Intrigue 3
Classic Western 3
Biographical 2
American History 2
1970s Cinema 2
Character-Driven 2
Old West 2
Vigilante Justice 2
Bleak 2
Psychological Trauma 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

182

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

Rebel Range

as Fisk Madden

2020s

1 title

John, 316

Story Editor

1990s

6 titles · average score 61

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

63

as Virgil Earp (flashback sequence) (archive footage)

Bed of Lies

58

as Price Daniel, Sr.

Daddy

53

as George Watson

In Broad Daylight

73

as Wes Westerman

Babe Ruth

59

as Judge Landis

Follow Your Heart

as Josh Lowe

1980s

31 titles · average score 62

Quantum Leap

72

TV show · as Pat Knight

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal

as George Dutton

Star Trek: The Next Generation

79

TV show · as Kevin Uxbridge

American Harvest

as Judge Meriweather

Dream West

TV show · as Brig. Gen. Brooke

Matlock

54

TV show · as Sam Chandler

I-Man

58

as Holbrook

MacGyver

77

TV show · as Harry Jackson

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Andrew Dixon

Hunter

70

TV show · as Winston Taggert

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

as Stanley Willard

Zoot Suit

61

as Judge F.W. Charles

1970s

52 titles · average score 65

In Search of Historic Jesus

as Caiaphas

The Deerslayer

as Hutter

Dallas

73

TV show · as Dr. Herbert Styles

The Specialist

37

as Pike Smith

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

68

as Col. John Lockport

Lincoln: Trial by Fire

as President Lincoln

Little House on the Prairie

82

TV show · as Amos Pike

Executive Action

61

as Halliday

The Stepmother

46

as Inspector Darnezi

M*A*S*H

78

TV show · as General Collins

Soldier Blue

53

as Col. Iverson

Cotton Comes to Harlem

64

as Capt. Bryce

1960s

55 titles · average score 64

Young Billy Young

51

as Boone

Heaven with a Gun

60

as Ase Beck

Hawaii Five-O

48

TV show · as Brig. General Earl Rigney

The Great Bank Robbery

50

as Mayor Kincaid

5 Card Stud

61

as Marshal Dana

Day of the Evil Gun

56

as Captain Jefferson Addis

Welcome to Hard Times

51

as Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple

Namu, the Killer Whale

52

as Joe Clausen

The Fugitive

84

TV show · as Justin Briggs / Ed Shrader

Geronimo

65

as Jeremiah Burns

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

54

TV show · as Adam / Luke Hunter

Psycho

92

as California Charlie

1950s

35 titles · average score 71

The Twilight Zone

91

TV show · as Gabriel / Deidrich

Bonanza

73

TV show · as Sam Masters / Gorman

Rawhide

50

TV show · as Captain James Rankin / Maj. Cantwell

The Rifleman

77

TV show · as Owny Kincaid / Samuel Gibbs

Wanted: Dead or Alive

50

TV show · as Deputy Sheriff Fix

Perry Mason

82

TV show · as Dan O'Malley / Bud Ferrand

Have Gun, Will Travel

78

TV show · as Fred Cooley

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Attendant / Nicholson

Gunsmoke

76

TV show · as Lemuel Cleary / Delliver

Cheyenne

71

TV show

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

72

TV show · as Virgil Earp

Lassie

64

TV show

1940s

1 title · average score 50

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

50

Assistant Director