Robert Lansing

Robert Lansing

Known For:Acting
Gender:Male
Birthday:1928-06-05
Place of Birth:San Diego, California, USA
Also Known As: Robert Howell Brown /
Known For: Acting Gender: Male Birthday: 1928-06-05 More

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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.
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Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Action & Adventure Drama
Monsters
Mystery Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama
The Nest
Thriller Science Fiction Horror
The Equalizer
Action & Adventure Crime Drama
Murder, She Wrote
Mystery Crime Drama
Automan
Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Hotel
Drama Soap
Life on the Mississippi
Music Drama TV Movie
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
Action Adventure TV Movie
Island Claws
Horror Science Fiction
Empire of the Ants
Horror Science Fiction
The Deadly Triangle
Mystery Crime Drama TV Movie
Scalpel
Drama Thriller Horror
Widow
Drama TV Movie
The Astronaut
Drama TV Movie Science Fiction
Killer by Night
Drama Thriller TV Movie
The Grissom Gang
Crime Drama Action Thriller
Great Performances
Comedy Documentary Drama
The Mod Squad
Action & Adventure Drama
The Name of the Game
Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Mannix
Action & Adventure Crime Mystery Drama
Star Trek
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama
The Monroes
Western Family Drama Action & Adventure
Namu, the Killer Whale
Drama Family Adventure
Daniel Boone
Action & Adventure Western
12 O'Clock High
Drama War & Politics
Calhoun
Drama TV Movie
87th Precinct
Crime Drama Mystery
Outlaws
Western Drama
4D Man
Science Fiction Horror
The Twilight Zone
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Mystery Drama
Bonanza
Western Action & Adventure Drama Family
One Step Beyond
Mystery Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Gunsmoke
Western Action & Adventure Drama
  • name:Robert Lansing
  • Known For:Acting
  • Gender:Male
  • Birthday:1928-06-05
  • Place of Birth:San Diego, California, USA
  • Also Known As: Robert Howell Brown ·
  • 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.
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