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Robert Lansing

Robert Lansing

Actor · 1928 – 1994 · San Diego, California, USA

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.

Series24

  • TV7.5
  • TV7.3

    Law & Order

    1990 · 726 votes

  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV6.1

    Great Performances

    1971 · 25 votes

  • TV8.0

    Star Trek

    1966 · 1.6K votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Equalizer

    1985 · 69 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV6.8

    Hotel

    1982 · 26 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Donna Reed Show

    1958 · 19 votes

  • TV6.5

    American Experience

    1988 · 48 votes

  • TV6.7

    Simon & Simon

    1981 · 99 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • TV7.2
  • TV7.0

    Daniel Boone

    1964 · 34 votes

  • TV5.7

    One Step Beyond

    1959 · 15 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Rookies

    1972 · 22 votes

  • TV5.3

    Young Doctor Malone

    1958 · 3 votes

  • TV6.7
  • TV6.8

    The High Chaparral

    1967 · 26 votes

  • TV6.2

    The Doris Day Show

    1968 · 11 votes

Movies23

  • Movie5.0

    Empire of the Ants

    1977 · 129 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Under the Yum Yum Tree

    1963 · 32 votes

  • Movie5.8

    A Gathering of Eagles

    1963 · 28 votes

  • Movie5.2

    The Nest

    1988 · 100 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Grissom Gang

    1971 · 41 votes

  • Movie7.4

    An Eye for an Eye

    1966 · 17 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Crime Club

    1975 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.4

    False Face

    1977 · 29 votes

  • Movie5.8

    4D Man

    1959 · 61 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Memories of Manon

    1989 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.9

    The Astronaut

    1972 · 8 votes

  • Movie4.5
  • Movie5.3

    Namu, the Killer Whale

    1966 · 8 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Danger Has Two Faces

    1968 · 1 votes

  • Movie2.6

    After School

    1988 · 11 votes

  • Movie8.7
  • Movie4.7

    Island Claws

    1980 · 26 votes

  • Movie8.0

    It Takes All Kinds

    1969 · 1 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Wild in the Sky

    1972 · 1 votes

  • Movie3.8

    Acapulco Gold

    1976 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Calhoun

    1964 · 1 votes

  • Movie1.0

    The Fatal Impulse

    1960 · 1 votes

  • Movie4.0

    Bittersweet Love

    1976 · 5 votes