Robert Lansing
29 movies · 45 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 5, 1928
- Died
- Oct 23, 1994 (age 66)
- Place of birth
- San Diego, California, USA
- Also known as
- Robert Howell Brown
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.
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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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Known for
Robert Lansing: movies and TV shows
Acting (74)
- 1993
- 1990
- 1989 Memories of Manon
as Control
- 1988
- 1988
- 1988 After School
as C.A. Thomas
- 1988 The Nest
as Elias Johnson
- 1987 The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
as Control
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984
- 1983
- 1982
- 1981
- 1980
- 1980 S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
as Owen Hooper
- 1980 Island Claws
as Moody
- 1977 Empire of the Ants
as Dan Stokely
- 1977 The Deadly Triangle
as Charles Cole
- 1977 False Face
as Dr. Phillip Reynolds
- 1976 Bittersweet Love
as Howard
- 1976 Acapulco Gold
as Carl Solborg
- 1976 Widow
as Harold
- 1975 Crime Club
as Alex Norton
- 1973
- 1973
- 1972
- 1972 Wild in the Sky
as Major Reason
- 1972 The Astronaut
as John Phillips
- 1972 Killer by Night
as Warren Claman
- 1971 The Grissom Gang
as Dave Fenner
- 1971
- 1969 It Takes All Kinds
as Tony Gunther
- 1968 Danger Has Two Faces
as Peter Murphy
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968
- 1967
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966
- 1966
- 1966
- 1966 Namu, the Killer Whale
as Hank Donner
- 1966 An Eye for an Eye
as Bill Talion
- 1965
- 1965
- 1964
- 1964
- 1964 Calhoun
as Eric Sloane
- 1963 Under the Yum Yum Tree
as Dr. Charles Howard
- 1963 A Gathering of Eagles
as Sgt. Banning
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960 The Fatal Impulse
as Lieutenant Brian Rome
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 The Pusher
as Steve Carella
- 1959 4D Man
as Dr. Scott Nelson
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1958
- 1958
- 1955
- 1953
- 1953
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1 episode