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Robert Lansing

Robert Lansing

Known For Acting
Birthday Jun 05, 1928
Died Oct 23, 1994 (66)
Birthplace San Diego, California, USA
Popularity 0.6 (history)
Updated Aug 05, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

Robert Lansing 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.

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Memories of Manon

Memories of Manon

1989

as Control

The Nest

The Nest

1988

as Elias Johnson

After School

After School

1988

as C.A. Thomas

Island Claws

Island Claws

1980

as Moody

S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert

S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert

1980

as Owen Hooper

Scalpel

Scalpel

1977

as Dr. Phillip Reynolds

Empire of the Ants

Empire of the Ants

1977

as Dan Stokely

The Deadly Triangle

The Deadly Triangle

1977

as Charles Cole

Bittersweet Love

Bittersweet Love

1976

as Howard

Acapulco Gold

Acapulco Gold

1976

as Carl Solborg

Widow

Widow

1976

as Harold

Crime Club

Crime Club

1975

as Alex Norton

The Astronaut

The Astronaut

1972

as John Phillips

Killer by Night

Killer by Night

1972

as Warren Claman

Wild in the Sky

Wild in the Sky

1972

as Major Reason

The Grissom Gang

The Grissom Gang

1971

as Dave Fenner

It Takes All Kinds

It Takes All Kinds

1969

as Tony Gunther

Namu, the Killer Whale

Namu, the Killer Whale

1966

as Hank Donner

An Eye for an Eye

An Eye for an Eye

1966

as Bill Talion

Calhoun

Calhoun

1964

as Eric Sloane

Under the Yum-Yum Tree

Under the Yum-Yum Tree

1963

as Dr. Charles Howard

A Gathering of Eagles

A Gathering of Eagles

1963

as Sgt. Banning

The Fatal Impulse

The Fatal Impulse

1960

as Lieutenant Brian Rome

The Pusher

The Pusher

1960

as Steve Carella

4D Man

4D Man

1959

as Dr. Scott Nelson

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Television Credits

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

as Paul Blaisdell

Episodes: 88

First Aired: Jan 27, 1993

12 O'Clock High

as Brigadier General Frank Savage

Episodes: 32

First Aired: Sep 18, 1964

87th Precinct

as Detective Steve Carella

Episodes: 30

First Aired: Sep 25, 1961

The Equalizer

as Control

Episodes: 29

First Aired: Sep 18, 1985

The Man Who Never Was

as Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright

Episodes: 18

First Aired: Sep 07, 1966

Automan

as Lt. Jack Curtis

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Dec 15, 1983

Murder, She Wrote

as Herb Walsh

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1984

Law & Order

as COO Peter O'Farrell

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 13, 1990

Star Trek

as Gary Seven

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 08, 1966

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as G. William Howe

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 29, 1985

Gunsmoke

as Luke Frazer

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 10, 1955

General Electric Theater

as James Wilson

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 01, 1953

Saints and Sinners

as Don Colley

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 17, 1962

The Twilight Zone

as Douglas Stansfield

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1959

Daniel Boone

as Capt. Robert Ives

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1964

The High Chaparral

as Marshall Virgil Packer

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 10, 1967

The Virginian

as George Calhoun

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1962

Thriller

as Lieutenant Brian Rome

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 13, 1960

One Step Beyond

as Jared Corning

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 20, 1959

Murder, She Wrote

as Lawrence Jarvis

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1984

Bonanza

as Jed Trask

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 12, 1959

Bonanza

as Gunny O'Riley

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 12, 1959

The Virginian

as Matt Denning

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1962

The Virginian

as Lee Knight

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1962

The DuPont Show of the Week

as Mooney

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 17, 1961

Gunsmoke

as Yancy Tyce

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 10, 1955

The Name of the Game

as Fred Martin

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1968

The Loner

as Hibbard

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 18, 1965

Bonanza

as John Dundee

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 12, 1959

The Doris Day Show

as Sgt. Bill Winston

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1968

American Experience

as Narrator

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 04, 1988

Mannix

as George Edward Diamond

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 16, 1967

Great Performances

as Horace Bixby

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 28, 1971

Mannix

as Chief Carl Yaring

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 16, 1967

Young Doctor Malone

Episodes: 322

First Aired: Dec 29, 1958

The Evil Touch

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jun 19, 1973

Sam Benedict

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 15, 1962

Branded

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 24, 1965

The Rookies

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 11, 1972

Simon & Simon

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 24, 1981

Hotel

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 21, 1982

The Mod Squad

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1968

Monsters

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 22, 1988

The Tall Man

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 10, 1960

The Monroes

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 07, 1966

Outlaws

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 26, 1960

Cimarron Strip

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 07, 1967

Journey to the Unknown

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 26, 1968

The Donna Reed Show

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1958

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 01, 1962

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