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Robert Lansing

Robert Lansing

Birthday: 1928-06-05 | Place of Birth: San Diego, California, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1993
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

as    Paul Blaisdell

1988
The Nest

as    Elias Johnson

1983
Automan

as    Lt. Jack Curtis

1980
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert

as    Owen Hooper

1977
The Deadly Triangle

as    Charles Cole

1977
Empire of the Ants

as    Dan Stokely

1972
The Astronaut

as    John Phillips

1972
Killer by Night

as    Warren Claman

1971
The Grissom Gang

as    Dave Fenner

1966
An Eye for an Eye

as    Bill Talion

1966
Namu, the Killer Whale

as    Hank Donner

1966
The Man Who Never Was

as    Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright

1964
Calhoun

as    Eric Sloane

1963
Under the Yum-Yum Tree

as    Dr. Charles Howard

1963
A Gathering of Eagles

as    Sgt. Banning

1961
87th Precinct

as    Detective Steve Carella

1960
The Pusher

as    Steve Carella