1928-06-05 ( 96 years old ) in San Diego, California, USA
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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.
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Movies
Memories of Manon
1989-02-13
After School
1988-09-01
The Nest
1988-05-13
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1987-09-23
Life on the Mississippi
1980-11-24
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
1980-02-23
Island Claws
1980-01-01
Empire of the Ants
1977-06-29
The Deadly Triangle
1977-05-19
False Face
1977-03-04
Bittersweet Love
1976-10-01
Acapulco Gold
1976-06-01
Widow
1976-01-22
Crime Club
1975-04-03
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
1973-12-12
Wild in the Sky
1972-03-01
The Astronaut
1972-01-08
Killer by Night
1972-01-07
The Grissom Gang
1971-05-28
It Takes All Kinds
1969-06-12
Danger Has Two Faces
1968-10-18
Namu, the Killer Whale
1966-08-01
An Eye for an Eye
1966-06-01
Calhoun
1964-07-08
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
1963-10-23
A Gathering of Eagles
1963-06-21
The Fatal Impulse
1960-11-29
The Pusher
1960-02-01
4D Man
1959-10-07
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