Robert Lansing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Lansing (June 5, 1928 - October 23, 1994) was an American stage, film and television actor. Born in San Diego, California as Robert Howell Brown, he reportedly took his acting surname from the state capital of Michigan. As a young actor in New York City, he was hired to join a stock company in Michigan but was told he would first have to join Actors Equity Association. Equity would not allow him to join as "Robert Brown" since there was already another actor using that name. Since the stock company was based in Lansing, this became the actor's new surname. In the 1961–1962 television season, Lansing appeared as Detective Steve Carella on NBC's 87th Precinct series based on the Ed McBain detective novels. His costars were Gena Rowlands, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott, and Norman Fell. In 1961, he played the outlaw Frank Dalton in a two-part episode of NBC's The Outlaws with Barton MacLane. On film, Lansing starred in the late-1950s sci-fi film 4D Man (which included a young Patty Duke). Other notable television roles include portrayals of an alcoholic college professor in ABC's drama Channing, as General George Custer on Chuck Connors's NBC series Branded, as Gil Green in the 1963 episode "Fear Begins at Forty" on the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, in a 1965 episode of I Spy, 1965 Gunsmoke as a bounty hunter, as a parole officer in a 1968 episode (A Time To Love - A Time To Cry) of The Mod Squad and as intergalactic secret agent Gary Seven in a 1968 episode "Assignment: Earth" on Star Trek. He appeared as General Frank Savage on Twelve O'Clock High, as an international secret agent in The Man Who Never Was, as Lt. Jack Curtis on Automan and as Control on The Equalizer. He made a notable appearance on The Twilight Zone episode "The Long Morrow". His final role was that of "Paul Blaisdell" on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Lansing (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
4D Man
(Dr. Scott Nelson)
Empire of the Ants
(Dan Stokely)
The Pusher
(Steve Carella)
Namu, the Killer Whale
(Hank Donner)
The Nest
(Elias Johnson)
The Grissom Gang
(Dave Fenner)
A Gathering of Eagles
(Sgt. Banning)
Island Claws
(Moody)
Scalpel
(Dr. Phillip Reynolds)
The Astronaut
(John Phillips)
Bittersweet Love
(Howard)
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
(Owen Hooper)
Wild in the Sky
(Major Reason)
Killer by Night
(Warren Claman)
Widow
(Harold)
An Eye for an Eye
(Bill Talion)
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
(Dr. Charles Howard)
The Deadly Triangle
(Charles Cole)
Danger Has Two Faces
(Peter Murphy)
After School
(C.A. Thomas)
Acapulco Gold
(Carl Solborg)
The Fatal Impulse
(Lieutenant Brian Rome)
It Takes All Kinds
(Tony Gunther)
Calhoun
(Eric Sloane)
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
(Control)
Life on the Mississippi
Memories of Manon
(Control)
Crime Club
(Alex Norton)
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
Murder, She Wrote
(Herb Walsh)
Law & Order
(COO Peter O'Farrell)
Star Trek
(Gary Seven)
The Rookies
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
(Paul Blaisdell)
Simon & Simon
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(G. William Howe)
Mannix
Hotel
The Mod Squad
Gunsmoke
(Luke Frazer)
The Evil Touch
General Electric Theater
(James Wilson)
Saints and Sinners
(Don Colley)
Monsters
The Twilight Zone
(Douglas Stansfield)
The Tall Man
The Monroes
87th Precinct
(Detective Steve Carella)
Sam Benedict
Outlaws
Cimarron Strip
Daniel Boone
(Capt. Robert Ives)
The High Chaparral
(Marshall Virgil Packer)
The Virginian
(George Calhoun)
Thriller
(Lieutenant Brian Rome)
Journey to the Unknown
One Step Beyond
(Jared Corning)
Automan
(Lt. Jack Curtis)
The Donna Reed Show
Branded
Young Doctor Malone
The Man Who Never Was
(Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright)
Murder, She Wrote
(Lawrence Jarvis)
Bonanza
(Jed Trask)
Bonanza
(Gunny O'Riley)
The Virginian
(Matt Denning)
The Virginian
(Lee Knight)
The DuPont Show of the Week
(Mooney)
Gunsmoke
(Yancy Tyce)
Submarine: Steel Boats, Iron Men
The Name of the Game
(Fred Martin)
Bonanza
(John Dundee)
The Loner
(Hibbard)
The Doris Day Show
(Sgt. Bill Winston)
Submarine: Steel Boats, Iron Men
(Narrator)
American Experience
(Narrator)
Mannix
(George Edward Diamond)
12 O'Clock High
(Brigadier General Frank Savage)
The Equalizer
(Control)
Great Performances
(Horace Bixby)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)