Robert Lansing
Known for Acting · 73 credits
- Born
- 1928-06-05
- Died
- 1994-10-23
- Place of birth
- San Diego, California, USA
- Also known as
- Robert Howell Brown
Biography
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.
Known For
TV Shows (44)
Law & Order
1990
as COO Peter O'Farrell
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Star Trek
1966
as Gary Seven
Bonanza
1959
as Jed Trask / Gunny O'Riley / John Dundee
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Herb Walsh / Lawrence Jarvis
Mannix
1967
as George Edward Diamond / Chief Carl Yaring
Great Performances
1971
as Horace Bixby
American Experience
1988
as Narrator
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Douglas Stansfield
The Virginian
1962
as George Calhoun / Matt Denning / Lee Knight
The Equalizer
1985
as Control
Simon & Simon
1981
Hotel
1982
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Daniel Boone
1964
as Capt. Robert Ives
The High Chaparral
1967
as Marshall Virgil Packer
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
as G. William Howe
The Name of the Game
1968
as Fred Martin
The Rookies
1972
Gunsmoke
1955
as Luke Frazer / Yancy Tyce
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993
as Paul Blaisdell
One Step Beyond
1959
as Jared Corning
Thriller
1960
as Lieutenant Brian Rome
Monsters
1988
as Ernest Chariot
The Mod Squad
1968
Young Doctor Malone
1958
12 O'Clock High
1964
as Brigadier General Frank Savage
Branded
1965
Checkmate
1960
as Barry Sironde
The Tall Man
1960
The Doris Day Show
1968
as Sgt. Bill Winston
87th Precinct
1961
as Detective Steve Carella
Outlaws
1960
Cimarron Strip
1967
as Darcy
Sam Benedict
1962
The Monroes
1966
The Loner
1965
as Hibbard
Journey to the Unknown
1968
as Jon Holden
Automan
1983
as Lt. Jack Curtis
The Evil Touch
1973
Saints and Sinners
1962
as Don Colley
General Electric Theater
1953
as James Wilson
The Man Who Never Was
1966
as Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961
as Mooney
Movies (29)
The Grissom Gang
1971
as Dave Fenner
4D Man
1959
as Dr. Scott Nelson
The Nest
1988
as Elias Johnson
A Gathering of Eagles
1963
as Sgt. Banning
Empire of the Ants
1977
as Dan Stokely
Acapulco Gold
1976
as Carl Solborg
False Face
1977
as Dr. Phillip Reynolds
Under the Yum Yum Tree
1963
as Dr. Charles Howard
Namu, the Killer Whale
1966
as Hank Donner
Widow
1976
as Harold
After School
1988
as C.A. Thomas
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1987
as Control
Memories of Manon
1989
as Control
An Eye for an Eye
1966
as Bill Talion
Danger Has Two Faces
1968
as Peter Murphy
The Astronaut
1972
as John Phillips
Island Claws
1980
as Moody
Wild in the Sky
1972
as Major Reason
Bittersweet Love
1976
as Howard
Life on the Mississippi
1980
The Fatal Impulse
1960
as Lieutenant Brian Rome
It Takes All Kinds
1969
as Tony Gunther
Killer by Night
1972
as Warren Claman
The Pusher
1960
as Steve Carella
Calhoun
1964
as Eric Sloane
Crime Club
1975
as Alex Norton
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
1973
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
1980
as Owen Hooper
The Deadly Triangle
1977
as Charles Cole
About 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… With 73 credits spanning from 1953 to 1993, Robert Lansing has appeared in 29 films and 44 TV shows.
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- The Grissom Gang (1971) — as Dave Fenner
- 4D Man (1959) — as Dr. Scott Nelson
- The Nest (1988) — as Elias Johnson
- A Gathering of Eagles (1963) — as Sgt. Banning
- Empire of the Ants (1977) — as Dan Stokely
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