Robert Lansing
Acting • Born 1928-06-05 – Died 1994-10-23
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. 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.
Filmography
80 credits
4D Man
Movie • 1959
Dr. Scott Nelson
Empire of the Ants
Movie • 1977
Dan Stokely
The Pusher
Movie • 1960
Steve Carella
Namu, the Killer Whale
Movie • 1966
Hank Donner
The Nest
Movie • 1988
Elias Johnson
The Grissom Gang
Movie • 1971
Dave Fenner
A Gathering of Eagles
Movie • 1963
Sgt. Banning
Island Claws
Movie • 1980
Moody
False Face
Movie • 1977
Dr. Phillip Reynolds
The Astronaut
Movie • 1972
John Phillips
Bittersweet Love
Movie • 1976
Howard
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
Movie • 1980
Owen Hooper
Wild in the Sky
Movie • 1972
Major Reason
Killer by Night
Movie • 1972
Warren Claman
Widow
Movie • 1976
Harold
An Eye for an Eye
Movie • 1966
Bill Talion
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
Movie • 1963
Dr. Charles Howard
The Deadly Triangle
Movie • 1977
Charles Cole
Danger Has Two Faces
Movie • 1968
Peter Murphy
After School
Movie • 1988
C.A. Thomas
Acapulco Gold
Movie • 1976
Carl Solborg
The Fatal Impulse
Movie • 1960
Lieutenant Brian Rome
It Takes All Kinds
Movie • 1969
Tony Gunther
Calhoun
Movie • 1964
Eric Sloane
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Movie • 1987
Control
Life on the Mississippi
Movie • 1980
Memories of Manon
Movie • 1989
Control
Crime Club
Movie • 1975
Alex Norton
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
Movie • 1973
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Herb Walsh
Law & Order
TV • 1990
COO Peter O'Farrell
Star Trek
TV • 1966
Gary Seven
The Rookies
TV • 1972
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
TV • 1993
Paul Blaisdell
Simon & Simon
TV • 1981
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1985
G. William Howe
Hotel
TV • 1982
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Luke Frazer
The Evil Touch
TV • 1973
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
James Wilson
Saints and Sinners
TV • 1962
Don Colley
Monsters
TV • 1988
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Douglas Stansfield
The Tall Man
TV • 1960
The Monroes
TV • 1966
87th Precinct
TV • 1961
Detective Steve Carella
Sam Benedict
TV • 1962
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Capt. Robert Ives
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Marshall Virgil Packer
The Virginian
TV • 1962
George Calhoun
Thriller
TV • 1960
Lieutenant Brian Rome
Journey to the Unknown
TV • 1968
One Step Beyond
TV • 1959
Jared Corning
Automan
TV • 1983
Lt. Jack Curtis
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Branded
TV • 1965
Young Doctor Malone
TV • 1958
The Man Who Never Was
TV • 1966
Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Lawrence Jarvis
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Jed Trask
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Gunny O'Riley
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Matt Denning
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Lee Knight
The DuPont Show of the Week
TV • 1961
Mooney
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Yancy Tyce
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Fred Martin
The Loner
TV • 1965
Hibbard
Bonanza
TV • 1959
John Dundee
The Doris Day Show
TV • 1968
Sgt. Bill Winston
American Experience
TV • 1988
Narrator
Mannix
TV • 1967
George Edward Diamond
12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
Brigadier General Frank Savage
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Control
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Horace Bixby
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Mannix
TV • 1967
Chief Carl Yaring
Cimarron Strip
TV • 1967
Darcy
Checkmate
TV • 1960
Barry Sironde