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