Acting · San Diego, California, USA · Born June 5, 1928
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.
TVKung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993
as Paul Blaisdell
TVLaw & Order
1990
as COO Peter O'Farrell
MovieMemories of Manon
1989
as Control
TVMonsters
1988
as Ernest Chariot
TVAmerican Experience
1988
as Narrator
MovieAfter School
1988
as C.A. Thomas
MovieThe Nest
1988
as Elias Johnson
MovieThe Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1987
as Control
TVThe New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
as G. William Howe
TVThe Equalizer
1985
as Control
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Herb Walsh
TVAutoman
1983
as Lt. Jack Curtis
TVHotel
1982
TVSimon & Simon
1981
MovieLife on the Mississippi
1980
MovieS+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
1980
as Owen Hooper
MovieIsland Claws
1980
as Moody
MovieEmpire of the Ants
1977
as Dan Stokely
MovieThe Deadly Triangle
1977
as Charles Cole
MovieFalse Face
1977
as Dr. Phillip Reynolds
MovieBittersweet Love
1976
as Howard
MovieAcapulco Gold
1976
as Carl Solborg
MovieWidow
1976
as Harold
MovieCrime Club
1975
as Alex Norton
MovieThirty Dangerous Seconds
1973
TVThe Evil Touch
1973
TVThe Rookies
1972
MovieWild in the Sky
1972
as Major Reason
MovieThe Astronaut
1972
as John Phillips
MovieKiller by Night
1972
as Warren Claman
MovieThe Grissom Gang
1971
as Dave Fenner
TVGreat Performances
1971
as Horace Bixby
MovieIt Takes All Kinds
1969
as Tony Gunther
MovieDanger Has Two Faces
1968
as Peter Murphy
TVJourney to the Unknown
1968
as Jon Holden
TVThe Mod Squad
1968
TVThe Doris Day Show
1968
as Sgt. Bill Winston
TVThe Name of the Game
1968
as Fred Martin
TVMannix
1967
as George Edward Diamond
TVThe High Chaparral
1967
as Marshall Virgil Packer
TVCimarron Strip
1967
as Darcy
TVStar Trek
1966
as Gary Seven
TVThe Monroes
1966
TVThe Man Who Never Was
1966
as Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright
MovieNamu, the Killer Whale
1966
as Hank Donner
MovieAn Eye for an Eye
1966
as Bill Talion
TVThe Loner
1965
as Hibbard
TVBranded
1965
TVDaniel Boone
1964
as Capt. Robert Ives
TV12 O'Clock High
1964
as Brigadier General Frank Savage
MovieCalhoun
1964
as Eric Sloane
MovieUnder the Yum Yum Tree
1963
as Dr. Charles Howard
MovieA Gathering of Eagles
1963
as Sgt. Banning
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVThe Virginian
1962
as George Calhoun
TVSaints and Sinners
1962
as Don Colley
TVSam Benedict
1962
TV87th Precinct
1961
as Detective Steve Carella
TVThe DuPont Show of the Week
1961
as Mooney
MovieThe Fatal Impulse
1960
as Lieutenant Brian Rome
TVOutlaws
1960
TVCheckmate
1960
as Barry Sironde
TVThriller
1960
as Lieutenant Brian Rome
TVThe Tall Man
1960
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960
MovieThe Pusher
1960
as Steve Carella
Movie4D Man
1959
as Dr. Scott Nelson
TVThe Twilight Zone
1959
as Douglas Stansfield
TVBonanza
1959
as Jed Trask
TVOne Step Beyond
1959
as Jared Corning
Young Doctor Malone
1958
TVThe Donna Reed Show
1958
TVGunsmoke
1955
as Luke Frazer
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as James Wilson
TVYou Are There
1953
as William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State
