Acting
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.
Filmography
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Series · 1993
Law & Order
Series · 1990
Memories of Manon
Film · 1989
The Nest
Film · 1988
After School
Film · 1988
American Experience
Series · 1988
Monsters
Series · 1988
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Film · 1987
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Series · 1985
The Equalizer
Series · 1985
Murder, She Wrote
Series · 1984
Murder, She Wrote
Series · 1984
Automan
Series · 1983
Hotel
Series · 1982
Simon & Simon
Series · 1981
Island Claws
Film · 1980
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
Film · 1980
Life on the Mississippi
Film · 1980
Empire of the Ants
Film · 1977
False Face
Film · 1977
The Deadly Triangle
Film · 1977
Bittersweet Love
Film · 1976
Widow
Film · 1976
Acapulco Gold
Film · 1976
Crime Club
Film · 1975
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
Film · 1973
The Evil Touch
Series · 1973
The Astronaut
Film · 1972
Wild in the Sky
Film · 1972
Killer by Night
Film · 1972
The Rookies
Series · 1972
The Grissom Gang
Film · 1971
Great Performances
Series · 1971
It Takes All Kinds
Film · 1969
Danger Has Two Faces
Film · 1968
The Mod Squad
Series · 1968
Journey to the Unknown
Series · 1968
The Name of the Game
Series · 1968
The Doris Day Show
Series · 1968
The High Chaparral
Series · 1967
Mannix
Series · 1967
Mannix
Series · 1967
Cimarron Strip
Series · 1967
Namu, the Killer Whale
Film · 1966
An Eye for an Eye
Film · 1966
Star Trek
Series · 1966
The Monroes
Series · 1966
The Man Who Never Was
Series · 1966
Branded
Series · 1965
The Loner
Series · 1965
Calhoun
Film · 1964
Daniel Boone
Series · 1964
12 O'Clock High
Series · 1964
A Gathering of Eagles
Film · 1963
Under the Yum Yum Tree
Film · 1963
Saints and Sinners
Series · 1962
Sam Benedict
Series · 1962
The Virginian
Series · 1962
The Virginian
Series · 1962
The Virginian
Series · 1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Series · 1962
87th Precinct
Series · 1961
The DuPont Show of the Week
Series · 1961
The Pusher
Film · 1960
The Fatal Impulse
Film · 1960
The Tall Man
Series · 1960
Outlaws
Series · 1960
Thriller
Series · 1960
Checkmate
Series · 1960
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
Series · 1960
4D Man
Film · 1959
The Twilight Zone
Series · 1959
One Step Beyond
Series · 1959
Bonanza
Series · 1959
Bonanza
Series · 1959
Bonanza
Series · 1959
The Donna Reed Show
Series · 1958
Young Doctor Malone
Series · 1958
Gunsmoke
Series · 1955
Gunsmoke
Series · 1955
General Electric Theater
Series · 1953
You Are There
Series · 1953