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Actor Born: October 20, 1922 in Clayton, IL Death: August 7, 1992 in Sherman Oaks, CA Biography:Dour, lantern-jawed character actor John Anderson attended the University of Iowa before inaugurating his performing career on a Mississippi showboat. After serving in the Coast Guard during World War II, Anderson made his Broadway bow, then first appeared on screen in 1952's "The Crimson Pirate". The actor proved indispensable to screenwriters trafficking in such stock characters as The Vengeful Gunslinger, The Inbred Hillbilly Patriarch, The Scripture-Spouting Zealot and The Rigid Authority Figure. Anderson's many screen assignments included used-car huckster California Charlie in "Psycho" (1960), the implicitly incestuous Elder Hammond in "Ride the High Country" (1962), the title character in "The Lincoln Conspiracy" (1977) and Caiaphas in "In Search of Historic Jesus" (1980). A dead ringer for 1920s baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Anderson portrayed that uncompromising... Full Biography
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