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 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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Law & Order
COO Peter O'Farrell
Star Trek
Gary Seven
Bonanza
Jed Trask
Bonanza
Gunny O'Riley
Bonanza
John Dundee
Murder, She Wrote
Herb Walsh
Murder, She Wrote
Lawrence Jarvis
The Twilight Zone
Douglas Stansfield
American Experience
Narrator
Great Performances
Horace Bixby
The Equalizer
Control
Mannix
George Edward Diamond
Mannix
Chief Carl Yaring
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
G. William Howe
Hotel
Thriller
Lieutenant Brian Rome
The Virginian
George Calhoun
The Virginian
Matt Denning
The Virginian
Lee Knight
Simon & Simon
Daniel Boone
Capt. Robert Ives
The Donna Reed Show
The High Chaparral
Marshall Virgil Packer
Gunsmoke
Luke Frazer
Gunsmoke
Yancy Tyce
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Paul Blaisdell
The Name of the Game
Fred Martin
The Rookies
One Step Beyond
Jared Corning
12 O'Clock High
Brigadier General Frank Savage
Automan
Lt. Jack Curtis
Branded
Monsters
The Mod Squad
False Face
Dr. Phillip Reynolds
The Doris Day Show
Sgt. Bill Winston
Outlaws
The Tall Man
87th Precinct
Detective Steve Carella
Sam Benedict
Cimarron Strip
Darcy
Journey to the Unknown
Young Doctor Malone
4D Man
Dr. Scott Nelson
The Pusher
Steve Carella
The Monroes
Bittersweet Love
Howard
The Loner
Hibbard
Crime Club
Alex Norton
Acapulco Gold
Carl Solborg
The Man Who Never Was
Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright
The Evil Touch
Saints and Sinners
Don Colley
The DuPont Show of the Week
Mooney
Calhoun
Eric Sloane
Empire of the Ants
Dan Stokely
Killer by Night
Warren Claman
Island Claws
Moody
General Electric Theater
James Wilson
A Gathering of Eagles
Sgt. Banning
The Grissom Gang
Dave Fenner
The Nest
Elias Johnson
It Takes All Kinds
Tony Gunther
Namu, the Killer Whale
Hank Donner
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
Dr. Charles Howard
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Control
An Eye for an Eye
Bill Talion
Memories of Manon
Control
After School
C.A. Thomas
The Astronaut
John Phillips
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
Owen Hooper
Widow
Harold
Wild in the Sky
Major Reason
Danger Has Two Faces
Peter Murphy
Life on the Mississippi
The Deadly Triangle
Charles Cole
The Fatal Impulse
Lieutenant Brian Rome
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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