Person Details

Birthday: 1928-06-05 10:19:02

Death: 1994-10-23 10:19:02

Aliases: Robert Howell Brown

Gender: Male

Place of birth: San Diego, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 25

TV Involvements: 30


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Lansing (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

The Grissom Gang
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7

The Grissom Gang

(1971) Dave Fenner
Law & Order
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7

Law & Order

(1990) COO Peter O'Farrell
Star Trek
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8

Star Trek

(1966) Gary Seven
The Virginian
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6

The Virginian

(1962) Lee Knight
The Twilight Zone
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8

The Twilight Zone

(1959) Commander Douglas Stansfield
Murder, She Wrote
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8

Murder, She Wrote

(1984) Lawrence Jarvis
Bonanza
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8

Bonanza

(1959) John Dundee
The High Chaparral
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7

The High Chaparral

(1967) Marshall Virgil Packer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1993 Paul Blaisdell
1990 COO Peter O'Farrell
1989 N/A
Narrator
Control
1988 N/A
Narrator
C.A. Thomas
Elias Johnson
1987 Control
1985 G. William Howe
Control
1984 Herb Walsh
Lawrence Jarvis
1983 Lt. Jack Curtis
1982 N/A
1981 N/A
1980 N/A
Owen Hooper
Moody
1977 Dan Stokely
Charles Cole
Dr. Phillip Reynolds
1976 Howard
Carl Solborg
Harold
1975 Alex Norton
1973 N/A
N/A
1972 N/A
Major Reason
John Phillips
Warren Claman
1971 Dave Fenner
Horace Bixby
1969 Tony Gunther
1968 Peter Murphy
N/A
N/A
Sgt. Bill Winston
Fred Martin
1967 N/A
George Edward Diamond
Marshall Virgil Packer
N/A
1966 Gary Seven
N/A
Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright
Hank Donner
Bill Talion
1965 Hibbard
N/A
1964 Capt. Robert Ives
Brigadier General Frank Savage
Eric Sloane
1963 Dr. Charles Howard
Sgt. Banning
1962 George Calhoun
Matt Denning
Lee Knight
Don Colley
N/A
1961 Detective Steve Carella
Mooney
1960 Lieutenant Brian Rome
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Lieutenant Brian Rome
N/A
Steve Carella
1959 Dr. Scott Nelson
Douglas Stansfield
John Dundee
Jed Trask
Gunny O'Riley
Jared Corning
1958 N/A
N/A
1955 Luke Frazer
Yancy Tyce
1953 James Wilson
Year Character Movie/Tv

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