Robert Lansing
Born
June 5, 1928
Died
October 23, 1994 (66 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
San Diego, California, USA
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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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Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Paul Blaisdell · (88 episodes)
1993
Law & Order
COO Peter O'Farrell · (1 episode)
1990
Memories of Manon
Control
1989
Monsters
(1 episode)
1988
American Experience
Narrator · (1 episode)
1988
After School
C.A. Thomas
1988
The Nest
Elias Johnson
1988
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Control
1987
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
G. William Howe · (1 episode)
1985
The Equalizer
Control · (29 episodes)
1985
Murder, She Wrote
Herb Walsh · (1 episode)
1984
Murder, She Wrote
Lawrence Jarvis · (1 episode)
1984
Automan
Lt. Jack Curtis · (13 episodes)
1983
Hotel
(1 episode)
1982
Simon & Simon
(1 episode)
1981
Life on the Mississippi
1980
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
Owen Hooper
1980
Island Claws
Moody
1980
Empire of the Ants
Dan Stokely
1977
The Deadly Triangle
Charles Cole
1977
False Face
Dr. Phillip Reynolds
1977
Bittersweet Love
Howard
1976
Acapulco Gold
Carl Solborg
1976
Widow
Harold
1976
Crime Club
Alex Norton
1975
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
1973
The Evil Touch
(2 episodes)
1973
The Rookies
(1 episode)
1972
Wild in the Sky
Major Reason
1972
The Astronaut
John Phillips
1972
Killer by Night
Warren Claman
1972
The Grissom Gang
Dave Fenner
1971
Great Performances
Horace Bixby · (1 episode)
1971
It Takes All Kinds
Tony Gunther
1969
Danger Has Two Faces
Peter Murphy
1968
Journey to the Unknown
(1 episode)
1968
The Mod Squad
(1 episode)
1968
The Doris Day Show
Sgt. Bill Winston · (1 episode)
1968
The Name of the Game
Fred Martin · (1 episode)
1968
Mannix
George Edward Diamond · (1 episode)
1967
Mannix
Chief Carl Yaring · (1 episode)
1967
The High Chaparral
Marshall Virgil Packer · (1 episode)
1967
Cimarron Strip
(1 episode)
1967
Star Trek
Gary Seven · (1 episode)
1966
The Monroes
(1 episode)
1966
The Man Who Never Was
Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright · (18 episodes)
1966
Namu, the Killer Whale
Hank Donner
1966
An Eye for an Eye
Bill Talion
1966
The Loner
Hibbard · (1 episode)
1965
Branded
(2 episodes)
1965
Daniel Boone
Capt. Robert Ives · (1 episode)
1964
12 O'Clock High
Brigadier General Frank Savage · (32 episodes)
1964
Calhoun
Eric Sloane
1964
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
Dr. Charles Howard
1963
A Gathering of Eagles
Sgt. Banning
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (1 episode)
1962
The Virginian
George Calhoun · (1 episode)
1962
The Virginian
Matt Denning · (1 episode)
1962
The Virginian
Lee Knight · (1 episode)
1962
Saints and Sinners
Don Colley · (1 episode)
1962
Sam Benedict
(2 episodes)
1962
87th Precinct
Detective Steve Carella · (30 episodes)
1961
The DuPont Show of the Week
Mooney · (1 episode)
1961
The Fatal Impulse
Lieutenant Brian Rome
1960
Outlaws
(1 episode)
1960
Thriller
Lieutenant Brian Rome · (1 episode)
1960
The Tall Man
(1 episode)
1960
The Pusher
Steve Carella
1960
4D Man
Dr. Scott Nelson
1959
The Twilight Zone
Douglas Stansfield · (1 episode)
1959
Bonanza
Jed Trask · (1 episode)
1959
Bonanza
Gunny O'Riley · (1 episode)
1959
Bonanza
John Dundee · (1 episode)
1959
One Step Beyond
Jared Corning · (1 episode)
1959
Young Doctor Malone
(322 episodes)
1958
The Donna Reed Show
(1 episode)
1958
Gunsmoke
Luke Frazer · (1 episode)
1955
Gunsmoke
Yancy Tyce · (1 episode)
1955
General Electric Theater
James Wilson · (1 episode)
1953