Robert Lansing

June 5, 1928 · San Diego, California, USA

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.

Notable work

8
Star Trek (1966)
as Gary Seven
8.5
The Twilight Zone (1959)
as Douglas Stansfield
7.3
Law & Order (1990)
as COO Peter O'Farrell
7.5
Bonanza (1959)
as Jed Trask and as Gunny O'Riley and as John Dundee
7.5
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
as Herb Walsh and as Lawrence Jarvis

Often works with

Tim Matheson
2 titles together
Bonanza, The Virginian
Anne Lockhart
2 titles together
Automan, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Brett Halsey
2 titles together
Automan, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Albert Salmi
2 titles together
Empire of the Ants, Daniel Boone
Shug Fisher
2 titles together
Gunsmoke, Daniel Boone
Roy Jenson
2 titles together
Simon & Simon, Daniel Boone

Full filmography · 74

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
as Paul Blaisdell
19936.7
Law & Order
as COO Peter O'Farrell
19907.3
Monsters
as Ernest Chariot
19887
American Experience
as Narrator
19886.5
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as G. William Howe
19857.2
The Equalizer
as Control
19857.1
Murder, She Wrote
as Herb Walsh and as Lawrence Jarvis
19847.5
Automan
as Lt. Jack Curtis
19837.8
Hotel
cast
19826.8
Simon & Simon
cast
19816.7
The Evil Touch
cast
1973
The Rookies
cast
19726.9