Robert Lansing
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.
Fotos
Películas (29)
Memories of Manon
1989 · Control
After School
1988 · C.A. Thomas
The Nest
1988 · Elias Johnson
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1987 · Control
Life on the Mississippi
1980
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
1980 · Owen Hooper
Island Claws
1980 · Moody
Empire of the Ants
1977 · Dan Stokely
The Deadly Triangle
1977 · Charles Cole
False Face
1977 · Dr. Phillip Reynolds
Bittersweet Love
1976 · Howard
Acapulco Gold
1976 · Carl Solborg
Widow
1976 · Harold
Crime Club
1975 · Alex Norton
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
1973
Wild in the Sky
1972 · Major Reason
The Astronaut
1972 · John Phillips
Killer by Night
1972 · Warren Claman
The Grissom Gang
1971 · Dave Fenner
It Takes All Kinds
1969 · Tony Gunther
Danger Has Two Faces
1968 · Peter Murphy
Namu, the Killer Whale
1966 · Hank Donner
An Eye for an Eye
1966 · Bill Talion
Calhoun
1964 · Eric Sloane
Under the Yum Yum Tree
1963 · Dr. Charles Howard
A Gathering of Eagles
1963 · Sgt. Banning
The Fatal Impulse
1960 · Lieutenant Brian Rome
The Pusher
1960 · Steve Carella
4D Man
1959 · Dr. Scott Nelson
Series (46)
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993 · Paul Blaisdell
La Ley y el Orden
1990 · COO Peter O'Farrell
Monsters
1988 · Ernest Chariot
American Experience
1988 · Narrator
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985 · G. William Howe
The Equalizer
1985 · Control
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Herb Walsh, Lawrence Jarvis
Automan
1983 · Lt. Jack Curtis
Hotel
1982
Simon & Simon
1981
The Evil Touch
1973
The Rookies
1972
Great Performances
1971 · Horace Bixby
Journey to the Unknown
1968 · Jon Holden
The Mod Squad
1968
The Doris Day Show
1968 · Sgt. Bill Winston
The Name of the Game
1968 · Fred Martin
Mannix
1967 · George Edward Diamond, Chief Carl Yaring
The High Chaparral
1967 · Marshall Virgil Packer
Cimarron Strip
1967 · Darcy
Star Trek
1966 · Gary Seven
The Monroes
1966
The Man Who Never Was
1966 · Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright
The Loner
1965 · Hibbard
Branded
1965
Daniel Boone
1964 · Capt. Robert Ives
12 O'Clock High
1964 · Brigadier General Frank Savage
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The Virginian
1962 · George Calhoun, Matt Denning, Lee Knight
Saints and Sinners
1962 · Don Colley
Sam Benedict
1962
87th Precinct
1961 · Detective Steve Carella
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961 · Mooney
Outlaws
1960 · Frank Dalton
Checkmate
1960 · Barry Sironde
Thriller
1960 · Lieutenant Brian Rome
The Tall Man
1960
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Douglas Stansfield
Bonanza
1959 · Jed Trask, Gunny O'Riley, John Dundee
One Step Beyond
1959 · Jared Corning
Young Doctor Malone
1958
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Gunsmoke
1955 · Luke Frazer, Yancy Tyce
General Electric Theater
1953 · James Wilson
You Are There
1953 · William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State