Robert Lansing
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.
Born: 05 June 1928 • Died: 23 October 1994
Played In
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Paul Blaisdell
Law & Order
COO Peter O'Farrell
Memories of Manon
Control
Monsters
Ernest Chariot
American Experience
Narrator
After School
C.A. Thomas
The Nest
Elias Johnson
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Control
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
G. William Howe
The Equalizer
Control
Murder, She Wrote
Herb Walsh
Murder, She Wrote
Lawrence Jarvis
Automan
Lt. Jack Curtis
Hotel
Simon & Simon
Life on the Mississippi
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
Owen Hooper
Island Claws
Moody
Empire of the Ants
Dan Stokely
The Deadly Triangle
Charles Cole
False Face
Dr. Phillip Reynolds
Bittersweet Love
Howard
Acapulco Gold
Carl Solborg
Widow
Harold
Crime Club
Alex Norton
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
The Evil Touch
The Rookies
Wild in the Sky
Major Reason
The Astronaut
John Phillips
Killer by Night
Warren Claman
The Grissom Gang
Dave Fenner
Great Performances
Horace Bixby
It Takes All Kinds
Tony Gunther
Danger Has Two Faces
Peter Murphy
Journey to the Unknown
Jon Holden
The Mod Squad
The Doris Day Show
Sgt. Bill Winston
The Name of the Game
Fred Martin
Mannix
George Edward Diamond
Mannix
Chief Carl Yaring
The High Chaparral
Marshall Virgil Packer
Cimarron Strip
Darcy
Star Trek
Gary Seven
The Monroes
The Man Who Never Was
Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright
Namu, the Killer Whale
Hank Donner
An Eye for an Eye
Bill Talion
The Loner
Hibbard
Branded
Daniel Boone
Capt. Robert Ives
12 O'Clock High
Brigadier General Frank Savage
Calhoun
Eric Sloane
Under the Yum Yum Tree
Dr. Charles Howard
A Gathering of Eagles
Sgt. Banning
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Virginian
George Calhoun
The Virginian
Matt Denning
The Virginian
Lee Knight
Saints and Sinners
Don Colley
Sam Benedict
87th Precinct
Detective Steve Carella
The DuPont Show of the Week
Mooney
The Fatal Impulse
Lieutenant Brian Rome
Outlaws
Checkmate
Barry Sironde
Thriller
Lieutenant Brian Rome
The Tall Man
The Pusher
Steve Carella
4D Man
Dr. Scott Nelson
The Twilight Zone
Douglas Stansfield
Bonanza
Jed Trask
Bonanza
Gunny O'Riley
Bonanza
John Dundee
One Step Beyond
Jared Corning
Young Doctor Malone
The Donna Reed Show
Gunsmoke
Luke Frazer
Gunsmoke
Yancy Tyce
General Electric Theater
James Wilson