Robert Lansing
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 5, 1928
- Died
- Oct 23, 1994 (aged 66)
- Place of birth
- San Diego, California, USA
- Credits
- 75
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
Filmography
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993TV
Paul Blaisdell
Law & Order
1990TV
COO Peter O'Farrell
Memories of Manon
1989Movie
Control
Monsters
1988TV
Ernest Chariot
American Experience
1988TV
Narrator
After School
1988Movie
C.A. Thomas
The Nest
1988Movie
Elias Johnson
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1987Movie
Control
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985TV
G. William Howe
The Equalizer
1985TV
Control
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Herb Walsh, Lawrence Jarvis
Automan
1983TV
Lt. Jack Curtis
Hotel
1982TV
Simon & Simon
1981TV
Life on the Mississippi
1980Movie
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
1980Movie
Owen Hooper
Island Claws
1980Movie
Moody
Empire of the Ants
1977Movie
Dan Stokely
The Deadly Triangle
1977Movie
Charles Cole
False Face
1977Movie
Dr. Phillip Reynolds
Bittersweet Love
1976Movie
Howard
Acapulco Gold
1976Movie
Carl Solborg
Widow
1976Movie
Harold
Crime Club
1975Movie
Alex Norton
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
1973Movie
The Evil Touch
1973TV
The Rookies
1972TV
Wild in the Sky
1972Movie
Major Reason
The Astronaut
1972Movie
John Phillips
Killer by Night
1972Movie
Warren Claman
The Grissom Gang
1971Movie
Dave Fenner
Great Performances
1971TV
Horace Bixby
It Takes All Kinds
1969Movie
Tony Gunther
Danger Has Two Faces
1968Movie
Peter Murphy
Journey to the Unknown
1968TV
Jon Holden
The Mod Squad
1968TV
The Doris Day Show
1968TV
Sgt. Bill Winston
The Name of the Game
1968TV
Fred Martin
Mannix
1967TV
George Edward Diamond, Chief Carl Yaring
The High Chaparral
1967TV
Marshall Virgil Packer
Cimarron Strip
1967TV
Darcy
Star Trek
1966TV
Gary Seven
The Monroes
1966TV
The Man Who Never Was
1966TV
Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright
Namu, the Killer Whale
1966Movie
Hank Donner
An Eye for an Eye
1966Movie
Bill Talion
The Loner
1965TV
Hibbard
Branded
1965TV
Daniel Boone
1964TV
Capt. Robert Ives
12 O'Clock High
1964TV
Brigadier General Frank Savage
Calhoun
1964Movie
Eric Sloane
Under the Yum Yum Tree
1963Movie
Dr. Charles Howard
A Gathering of Eagles
1963Movie
Sgt. Banning
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
The Virginian
1962TV
George Calhoun, Matt Denning, Lee Knight
Saints and Sinners
1962TV
Don Colley
Sam Benedict
1962TV
87th Precinct
1961TV
Detective Steve Carella
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961TV
Mooney
The Fatal Impulse
1960Movie
Lieutenant Brian Rome
Outlaws
1960TV
Checkmate
1960TV
Barry Sironde
Thriller
1960TV
Lieutenant Brian Rome
The Tall Man
1960TV
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960TV
The Pusher
1960Movie
Steve Carella
4D Man
1959Movie
Dr. Scott Nelson
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Douglas Stansfield
Bonanza
1959TV
Jed Trask, Gunny O'Riley, John Dundee
One Step Beyond
1959TV
Jared Corning
Young Doctor Malone
1958TV
The Donna Reed Show
1958TV
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Luke Frazer, Yancy Tyce
General Electric Theater
1953TV
James Wilson
You Are There
1953TV
William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State