
Sam Anderson
Acting • Born 1947-04-02
Biography
Sam Anderson (born April 2, 1947) is an American actor. He is best known for his character roles such as Sam Gorpley on Perfect Strangers, Holland Manners on Angel, dentist Bernard Nadler on Lost, Happy Days-loving Doctor Harad who delivered Phoebe's triplets in Friends' 100th episode, and in film, as the principal in Forrest Gump.
Filmography
123 credits
The Puppet Masters
Movie • 1994
Culbertson

The Independent
Movie • 2000
Ed

Dark Angel
Movie • 1990
Warren

Water for Elephants
Movie • 2011
Mr. Hyde

The Pentagon Wars
Movie • 1998
Congressman #2

Devil's Due
Movie • 2014
Father Thomas

Breaking the Girls
Movie • 2013
Professor Nolan

What I Did for Love
Movie • 1998
Richard

Sonic Impact
Movie • 2000
Alex Holmes

The Swap
Movie • 1979
Paul

Where the Crawdads Sing
Movie • 2022
Tate (mid-70s)

Dirty Habit
Movie • 2006
Bishop

NetForce
Movie • 1999
Fox

Touched
Movie • 2005
Dr. Reynolds

Perfect Game
Movie • 2000
Steven

A Place to Be Loved
Movie • 1993
Judge Thomas S. Kirk

Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
Movie • 1996
Quote Reader

Forrest Gump
Movie • 1994
Principal Hancock

The Lift
Movie • 2024

Song of Back and Neck
Movie • 2018
Jarred Foxen

Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade
Movie • 1983
Paul Iberville

Ouija: Origin of Evil
Movie • 2016
Mr. Browning

Secret Santa
Movie • 2003
Mr. Gibson

La Bamba
Movie • 1987
Mr. Ludwig

Permanent Midnight
Movie • 1998
Dr. Olson

3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom
Movie • 2012
Chris

Do You Take This Man
Movie • 2017
Steven

Slackers
Movie • 2002
Charles Patton

Policewoman Centerfold
Movie • 1983
Druggist

The Man Next Door
Movie • 1996
Dwight Cooley

Movers & Shakers
Movie • 1985
Ray Berg

Maybe Someday
Movie • 2017
Douglas Donnelly

Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Movie • 1992
Chairman of the House Committee

The Tragedy of King Lear
Movie • 1982
Duke of Albany

Critters 2
Movie • 1988
Mr. Morgan

The Last Hand
Movie • 1997
Jimmy Walsh

The Sleepwalker Killing
Movie • 1997
Roth Lane

Growing Pains
TV • 1985
Principal Willis Dewitt

WKRP in Cincinnati
TV • 1978
Agent Berwick

Perfect Strangers
TV • 1986
Sam Gorpley

CSI: Miami
TV • 2002
Scott Sommer

Miracles
TV • 2003
Cinda's Father

Everybody Loves Raymond
TV • 1996
Special Agent Thomas Garfield

Angel
TV • 1999
Holland Manners

CSI: NY
TV • 2004
Dr. Richards

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Dr. Mercer

The X-Files
TV • 1993
Leamus

Millennium
TV • 1996
Agent Jack Pierson

Lost
TV • 2004
Bernard Nadler

Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Howard Sherwood

Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Ernie Pitt

Married to the Kellys
TV • 2003
Bill Kelly

The Charmings
TV • 1987

Medium
TV • 2005
Eliot Peterson

Family Law
TV • 1999
Carlisle Tucker

E/R
TV • 1984

Live Shot
TV • 1995
Marvin Seaborne

The Visitor
TV • 1997
Army General

Mama Malone
TV • 1984
Stanley

Tales from the Darkside
TV • 1984
Dr. Synapsis

Hawaii Five-0
TV • 2010
Owen Sutherland

The Stockard Channing Show
TV • 1980

Justified
TV • 2010
Lee Paxton

Men at Work
TV • 2012
James Wilson

Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Dr. Hjortsberg

Castle
TV • 2009
Principal Duncan

Hunter
TV • 1984
Vinny Cochran

Chasing Life
TV • 2014
Gerald Rayburn

From the Earth to the Moon
TV • 1998
Thomas Paine

WKRP in Cincinnati
TV • 1978
Mason Nobel

WKRP in Cincinnati
TV • 1978
Mr. Anderson

WKRP in Cincinnati
TV • 1978
Rex Erhardt

Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Michael Whitman

Wolf Lake
TV • 2001
Arthur Van Halen

Painkiller
TV • 2023
Raymond Sackler

Friends
TV • 1994
Dr. Harad

Damien
TV • 2016
Professor Igor Reneus

Nowhere Man
TV • 1995
The Man

Newhart
TV • 1982

Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Assistant Manager

The West Wing
TV • 1999
John LaSalle

This Is Us
TV • 2016
Judge Walter Crowder

Scandal
TV • 2012
Melvin Feen

The Cape
TV • 1996
Kevin Davis, CAPCOM

Grimm
TV • 2011
Old Man

Grimm
TV • 2011
Rolek Porter

21 Jump Street
TV • 1987
Dan Finger

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
TV • 1993
Simon Wolfe

NCIS
TV • 2003
Walter Carmichael

Station 19
TV • 2018
Elliott

T. J. Hooker
TV • 1982
Leo Santee

Melrose Place
TV • 1992
Agent Hill

A Million Little Things
TV • 2018
Mr. Dennings

Bones
TV • 2005
Hugo Sanderson

Leverage
TV • 2008
Henry Retzing

Fantasy Island
TV • 1998
Mr. Gable

Without a Trace
TV • 2002
Congressman Whitehurst

In the Heat of the Night
TV • 1988
Drew Ward

The Golden Girls
TV • 1985
Meyer

ER
TV • 1994
Jack Kayson

Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Stuart Himes

Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Neil Fraser

Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Ethan Stevens

Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Dan the Electrician

Boston Common
TV • 1996
Wesley Butterfield

Malcolm in the Middle
TV • 2000
Police Commissioner

Ally McBeal
TV • 1997
Mark Harrison

The Forgotten
TV • 2009
Train Driver

Matlock
TV • 2024
Edwin Kingston

How to Get Away with Murder
TV • 2014
Thomas Fitzgerald

NCIS: Los Angeles
TV • 2009
Senator Dick Osborne

The Stand
TV • 1994
Whitney Horgan

Two Guys and a Girl
TV • 1998
Dr. Harvey

Blue Thunder
TV • 1984
Benjamin Kelty

Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Ray Jones / John Doe

Harry's Law
TV • 2011
Judge William Rothman

Boston Legal
TV • 2004
Walter Fife

Profiler
TV • 1996
Ken Harker

Picket Fences
TV • 1992
FBI Agent Donald Morrell

St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
Mr. McGrath

Hardcastle and McCormick
TV • 1983
Teddy Peters

L.A. Law
TV • 1986
D.A. Bill Graphia

Alien Nation
TV • 1989
Thomas Edison