Name
Robert Lansing
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1928-06-05
Deathday
1994-10-23 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
San Diego, California, USA
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.
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- 1959 4D Man as Dr. Scott Nelson
- 1977 Empire of the Ants as Dan Stokely
- 1960 The Pusher as Steve Carella
- 1966 Namu, the Killer Whale as Hank Donner
- 1988 The Nest as Elias Johnson
- 1971 The Grissom Gang as Dave Fenner
- 1963 A Gathering of Eagles as Sgt. Banning
- 1980 Island Claws as Moody
- 1977 False Face as Dr. Phillip Reynolds
- 1972 The Astronaut as John Phillips
- 1976 Bittersweet Love as Howard
- 1980 S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert as Owen Hooper
- 1972 Wild in the Sky as Major Reason
- 1972 Killer by Night as Warren Claman
- 1976 Widow as Harold
- 1966 An Eye for an Eye as Bill Talion
- 1963 Under the Yum Yum Tree as Dr. Charles Howard
- 1977 The Deadly Triangle as Charles Cole
- 1968 Danger Has Two Faces as Peter Murphy
- 1988 After School as C.A. Thomas
- 1976 Acapulco Gold as Carl Solborg
- 1960 The Fatal Impulse as Lieutenant Brian Rome
- 1969 It Takes All Kinds as Tony Gunther
- 1964 Calhoun as Eric Sloane
- 1987 The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine as Control
- 1980 Life on the Mississippi
- 1989 Memories of Manon as Control
- 1975 Crime Club as Alex Norton
- 1973 Thirty Dangerous Seconds
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Herb Walsh
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as COO Peter O'Farrell
- 1966 Star Trek ( 1 episode ) as Gary Seven
- 1972 The Rookies ( 1 episode )
- 1993 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues ( 44 episodes ) as Paul Blaisdell
- 1981 Simon & Simon ( 1 episode )
- 1985 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as G. William Howe
- 1982 Hotel ( 1 episode )
- 1968 The Mod Squad ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Luke Frazer
- 1973 The Evil Touch ( 2 episodes )
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as James Wilson
- 1962 Saints and Sinners ( 1 episode ) as Don Colley
- 1959 The Twilight Zone ( 1 episode ) as Douglas Stansfield
- 1960 The Tall Man ( 1 episode )
- 1966 The Monroes ( 1 episode )
- 1961 87th Precinct ( 30 episodes ) as Detective Steve Carella
- 1962 Sam Benedict ( 2 episodes )
- 1960 Outlaws ( 1 episode )
- 1964 Daniel Boone ( 1 episode ) as Capt. Robert Ives
- 1967 The High Chaparral ( 1 episode ) as Marshall Virgil Packer
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as George Calhoun
- 1960 Thriller ( 1 episode ) as Lieutenant Brian Rome
- 1968 Journey to the Unknown ( 1 episode ) as Jon Holden
- 1959 One Step Beyond ( 1 episode ) as Jared Corning
- 1983 Automan ( 13 episodes ) as Lt. Jack Curtis
- 1958 The Donna Reed Show ( 1 episode )
- 1965 Branded ( 2 episodes )
- 1958 Young Doctor Malone ( 322 episodes )
- 1966 The Man Who Never Was ( 18 episodes ) as Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Lawrence Jarvis
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Jed Trask
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Gunny O'Riley
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as Matt Denning
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as Lee Knight
- 1961 The DuPont Show of the Week ( 1 episode ) as Mooney
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Yancy Tyce
- 1968 The Name of the Game ( 1 episode ) as Fred Martin
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as John Dundee
- 1965 The Loner ( 1 episode ) as Hibbard
- 1968 The Doris Day Show ( 1 episode ) as Sgt. Bill Winston
- 1988 American Experience ( 1 episode ) as Narrator
- 1967 Mannix ( 1 episode ) as George Edward Diamond
- 1964 12 O'Clock High ( 32 episodes ) as Brigadier General Frank Savage
- 1985 The Equalizer ( 29 episodes ) as Control
- 1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Horace Bixby
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1967 Mannix ( 1 episode ) as Chief Carl Yaring
- 1967 Cimarron Strip ( 1 episode ) as Darcy
- 1960 Checkmate ( 1 episode ) as Barry Sironde
- 1988 Monsters ( 1 episode ) as Ernest Chariot
- 1960 The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries ( 1 episode )
- 1953 You Are There ( 1 episode ) as William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State
