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Known credits:
35
Birthday:
1928-06-05
Place of birth:
San Diego, California, USA
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Robert Lansing

Overview

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.

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Known for

Acting
1993 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Actor Paul Blaisdell 67
Fair
1989 Submarine: Steel Boats, Iron Men Actor N/A
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1989 Memories of Manon Actor Control 58
Average
1988 After School Actor C.A. Thomas 58
Average
1988 The Nest Actor Elias Johnson 58
Average
1987 The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine Actor Control 59
Average
1983 Automan Actor Lt. Jack Curtis 75
Good
1980 Life on the Mississippi Actor 59
Average
1980 S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert Actor Owen Hooper 58
Average
1980 Island Claws Actor Moody 58
Average
1977 Empire of the Ants Actor Dan Stokely 56
Average
1977 The Deadly Triangle Actor Charles Cole 59
Average
1977 False Face Actor Dr. Phillip Reynolds 59
Average
1976 Bittersweet Love Actor Howard 58
Average
1976 Acapulco Gold Actor Carl Solborg 58
Average
1976 Widow Actor Harold N/A
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1975 Crime Club Actor Alex Norton N/A
N/A
1973 Thirty Dangerous Seconds Actor N/A
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1972 Wild in the Sky Actor Major Reason N/A
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1972 The Astronaut Actor John Phillips 58
Average
1972 Killer by Night Actor Warren Claman 59
Average
1971 The Grissom Gang Actor Dave Fenner 59
Average
1969 It Takes All Kinds Actor Tony Gunther N/A
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1968 Danger Has Two Faces Actor Peter Murphy N/A
N/A
1966 The Man Who Never Was Actor Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright N/A
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1966 Namu, the Killer Whale Actor Hank Donner 58
Average
1966 An Eye for an Eye Actor Bill Talion 59
Average
1964 Calhoun Actor Eric Sloane 58
Average
1963 Under the Yum-Yum Tree Actor Dr. Charles Howard 58
Average
1963 A Gathering of Eagles Actor Sgt. Banning 58
Average
1961 87th Precinct Actor Detective Steve Carella 69
Fair
1960 The Fatal Impulse Actor Lieutenant Brian Rome N/A
N/A
1960 The Pusher Actor Steve Carella 59
Average
1959 4D Man Actor Dr. Scott Nelson 58
Average
1958 Young Doctor Malone Actor 68
Fair