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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 1961β1962 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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Filmography
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TV Shows 43
Movies 29
Narrator 2
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993)
Law & Order (1990)
Submarine: Steel Boats, Iron Men (1989)
Memories of Manon (1989)
Monsters (1988)
American Experience (1988)
After School (1988)
The Nest (1988)
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine (1987)
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
The Equalizer (1985)
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Automan (1983)
Hotel (1982)
Simon & Simon (1981)
Life on the Mississippi (1980)
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert (1980)
Island Claws (1980)
Empire of the Ants (1977)
The Deadly Triangle (1977)
Scalpel (1977)
Bittersweet Love (1976)
Acapulco Gold (1976)
Widow (1976)
Crime Club (1975)
Thirty Dangerous Seconds (1973)
The Evil Touch (1973)
The Rookies (1972)
Wild in the Sky (1972)
The Astronaut (1972)
Killer by Night (1972)
The Grissom Gang (1971)
Great Performances (1971)
It Takes All Kinds (1969)
Danger Has Two Faces (1968)
Journey to the Unknown (1968)
The Doris Day Show (1968)
The Mod Squad (1968)
The Name of the Game (1968)
Mannix (1967)
The High Chaparral (1967)
Cimarron Strip (1967)
Star Trek (1966)
The Monroes (1966)
The Man Who Never Was (1966)
Namu, the Killer Whale (1966)
An Eye for an Eye (1966)
The Loner (1965)
Branded (1965)
Daniel Boone (1964)
12 O'Clock High (1964)
Calhoun (1964)
Under the Yum-Yum Tree (1963)
A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
The Virginian (1962)
Saints and Sinners (1962)
Sam Benedict (1962)
87th Precinct (1961)
The DuPont Show of the Week (1961)
Outlaws (1960)
Thriller (1960)
The Tall Man (1960)
The Pusher (1960)
4D Man (1959)
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Bonanza (1959)
One Step Beyond (1959)
Young Doctor Malone (1958)
The Donna Reed Show (1958)
Gunsmoke (1955)
General Electric Theater (1953)
Calling Automan: The Auto Feature
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GenderMale
Birthday1928-06-05
Deathday1994-10-23 (66 years old)
Birth NameRobert Howell Brown
Birth PlaceSan Diego, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsRobert Howell Brown
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