Robert Lansing
Acting
Born: June 5, 1928 · San Diego, California, USA
Died: October 23, 1994 (aged 66)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Star Trek
1966
The Twilight Zone
1959
Law & Order
1990
Bonanza
1959
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Automan
1983
Empire of the Ants
1977
Gunsmoke
1955
The Nest
1988
Simon & Simon
1981
The Equalizer
1985
4D Man
1959
Photos (2)
Movies (29)
Empire of the Ants
Dan Stokely
A Gathering of Eagles
Sgt. Banning
4D Man
Dr. Scott Nelson
Under the Yum Yum Tree
Dr. Charles Howard
False Face
Dr. Phillip Reynolds
The Grissom Gang
Dave Fenner
The Nest
Elias Johnson
Island Claws
Moody
Crime Club
Alex Norton
Namu, the Killer Whale
Hank Donner
The Astronaut
John Phillips
Killer by Night
Warren Claman
Bittersweet Love
Howard
After School
C.A. Thomas
An Eye for an Eye
Bill Talion
It Takes All Kinds
Tony Gunther
The Pusher
Steve Carella
Memories of Manon
Control
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
Owen Hooper
Wild in the Sky
Major Reason
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Control
Acapulco Gold
Carl Solborg
The Fatal Impulse
Lieutenant Brian Rome
The Deadly Triangle
Charles Cole
Calhoun
Eric Sloane
Danger Has Two Faces
Peter Murphy
Widow
Harold
Life on the Mississippi
1980
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
1973
TV Shows (50)
Law & Order
COO Peter O'Farrell · 1 eps
Star Trek
Gary Seven · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
Herb Walsh · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
Lawrence Jarvis · 1 eps
The Donna Reed Show
1 eps
Bonanza
Jed Trask · 1 eps
Bonanza
Gunny O'Riley · 1 eps
Bonanza
John Dundee · 1 eps
Great Performances
Horace Bixby · 1 eps
Simon & Simon
1 eps
Mannix
George Edward Diamond · 1 eps
Mannix
Chief Carl Yaring · 1 eps
The Virginian
George Calhoun · 1 eps
The Virginian
Matt Denning · 1 eps
The Virginian
Lee Knight · 1 eps
The Twilight Zone
Douglas Stansfield · 1 eps
American Experience
Narrator · 1 eps
Hotel
1 eps
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Paul Blaisdell · 44 eps
Daniel Boone
Capt. Robert Ives · 1 eps
The Equalizer
Control · 29 eps
The Name of the Game
Fred Martin · 1 eps
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
G. William Howe · 1 eps
Thriller
Lieutenant Brian Rome · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Luke Frazer · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Yancy Tyce · 1 eps
The High Chaparral
Marshall Virgil Packer · 1 eps
One Step Beyond
Jared Corning · 1 eps
The Doris Day Show
Sgt. Bill Winston · 1 eps
12 O'Clock High
Brigadier General Frank Savage · 32 eps
Monsters
Ernest Chariot · 1 eps
The Rookies
1 eps
Branded
2 eps
Checkmate
Barry Sironde · 1 eps
The Mod Squad
1 eps
Cimarron Strip
Darcy · 1 eps
Automan
Lt. Jack Curtis · 13 eps
Sam Benedict
2 eps
You Are There
William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State · 1 eps
Outlaws
1 eps
87th Precinct
Detective Steve Carella · 30 eps
The Tall Man
1 eps
Journey to the Unknown
Jon Holden · 1 eps
The Loner
Hibbard · 1 eps
The Monroes
1 eps
The DuPont Show of the Week
Mooney · 1 eps
Saints and Sinners
Don Colley · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
James Wilson · 1 eps
The Evil Touch
2 eps
The Man Who Never Was
Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright · 18 eps
