- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- June 5, 1928
- Place of Birth
- San Diego, California, USA
- Died
- October 23, 1994
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 M…
Filmography
tvKung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993 · Paul Blaisdell
tvLaw & Order
1990 · COO Peter O'Farrell
movieMemories of Manon
1989 · Control
tvMonsters
1988 · Ernest Chariot
tvAmerican Experience
1988 · Narrator
movieAfter School
1988 · C.A. Thomas
movieThe Nest
1988 · Elias Johnson
movieThe Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1987 · Control
tvThe New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985 · G. William Howe
tvThe Equalizer
1985 · Control
tvMurder, She Wrote
1984 · Herb Walsh, Lawrence Jarvis
tvAutoman
1983 · Lt. Jack Curtis
tvHotel
1982
tvSimon & Simon
1981
movieLife on the Mississippi
1980
movieS+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
1980 · Owen Hooper
movieIsland Claws
1980 · Moody
movieEmpire of the Ants
1977 · Dan Stokely
movieThe Deadly Triangle
1977 · Charles Cole
movieFalse Face
1977 · Dr. Phillip Reynolds
movieBittersweet Love
1976 · Howard
movieAcapulco Gold
1976 · Carl Solborg
movieWidow
1976 · Harold
movieCrime Club
1975 · Alex Norton
movieThirty Dangerous Seconds
1973
tvThe Evil Touch
1973
tvThe Rookies
1972
movieWild in the Sky
1972 · Major Reason
movieThe Astronaut
1972 · John Phillips
movieKiller by Night
1972 · Warren Claman
movieThe Grissom Gang
1971 · Dave Fenner
tvGreat Performances
1971 · Horace Bixby
movieIt Takes All Kinds
1969 · Tony Gunther
movieDanger Has Two Faces
1968 · Peter Murphy
tvJourney to the Unknown
1968 · Jon Holden
tvThe Mod Squad
1968
tvThe Doris Day Show
1968 · Sgt. Bill Winston
tvThe Name of the Game
1968 · Fred Martin
tvMannix
1967 · George Edward Diamond, Chief Carl Yaring
tvThe High Chaparral
1967 · Marshall Virgil Packer
tvCimarron Strip
1967 · Darcy
tvStar Trek
1966 · Gary Seven
tvThe Monroes
1966
tvThe Man Who Never Was
1966 · Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright
movieNamu, the Killer Whale
1966 · Hank Donner
movieAn Eye for an Eye
1966 · Bill Talion
tvThe Loner
1965 · Hibbard
tvBranded
1965
tvDaniel Boone
1964 · Capt. Robert Ives
tv12 O'Clock High
1964 · Brigadier General Frank Savage
movieCalhoun
1964 · Eric Sloane
movieUnder the Yum Yum Tree
1963 · Dr. Charles Howard
movieA Gathering of Eagles
1963 · Sgt. Banning
tvThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
tvThe Virginian
1962 · George Calhoun, Matt Denning, Lee Knight
tvSaints and Sinners
1962 · Don Colley
tvSam Benedict
1962
tv87th Precinct
1961 · Detective Steve Carella
tvThe DuPont Show of the Week
1961 · Mooney
movieThe Fatal Impulse
1960 · Lieutenant Brian Rome
tvOutlaws
1960
tvCheckmate
1960 · Barry Sironde
tvThriller
1960 · Lieutenant Brian Rome
tvThe Tall Man
1960
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
tvThe Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960
movieThe Pusher
1960 · Steve Carella
movie4D Man
1959 · Dr. Scott Nelson
tvThe Twilight Zone
1959 · Douglas Stansfield
tvBonanza
1959 · Jed Trask, Gunny O'Riley, John Dundee
tvOne Step Beyond
1959 · Jared Corning
Young Doctor Malone
tvYoung Doctor Malone
1958
tvThe Donna Reed Show
1958
tvGunsmoke
1955 · Luke Frazer, Yancy Tyce
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953 · James Wilson
tvYou Are There
1953 · William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State