Loading amazing content...
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 5, 1928
Died
October 23, 1994
Place of Birth
San Diego, California, USA
Also Known As
- Robert Howell Brown
Robert Lansing
0.6 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.7
Paul Blaisdell
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993
7.4
COO Peter O'Farrell
Law & Order
1990
8.3
Control
Memories of Manon
1989
7.1
Monsters
1988
6.9
Narrator
American Experience
1988
2.1
C.A. Thomas
After School
1988
5.2
Elias Johnson
The Nest
1988
8.7
Control
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1987
7.2
G. William Howe
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
7.1
Control
The Equalizer
1985
Credits
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
as Paul Blaisdell
1993
6.7
Law & Order
as COO Peter O'Farrell
1990
7.4
Memories of Manon
as Control
1989
8.3
Monsters
1988
7.1
American Experience
as Narrator
1988
6.9
After School
as C.A. Thomas
1988
2.1
The Nest
as Elias Johnson
1988
5.2
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
as Control
1987
8.7
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as G. William Howe
1985
7.2
The Equalizer
as Control
1985
7.1
Murder, She Wrote
as Herb Walsh
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Lawrence Jarvis
1984
7.5
Automan
as Lt. Jack Curtis
1983
7.8
Hotel
1982
6.8
Simon & Simon
1981
6.7
Life on the Mississippi
1980
9.0
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
as Owen Hooper
1980
3.4
Island Claws
as Moody
1980
4.5
Empire of the Ants
as Dan Stokely
1977
4.9
The Deadly Triangle
as Charles Cole
1977
6.0
False Face
as Dr. Phillip Reynolds
1977
6.3
Bittersweet Love
as Howard
1976
3.0
Acapulco Gold
as Carl Solborg
1976
3.3
Widow
as Harold
1976
0.0
Crime Club
as Alex Norton
1975
0.0
Thirty Dangerous Seconds
1973
0.0
The Evil Touch
1973
5.5
The Rookies
1972
6.8
Wild in the Sky
as Major Reason
1972
0.0
The Astronaut
as John Phillips
1972
5.7
Killer by Night
as Warren Claman
1972
7.0
The Grissom Gang
as Dave Fenner
1971
6.6
Great Performances
as Horace Bixby
1971
5.8
It Takes All Kinds
as Tony Gunther
1969
0.0
Danger Has Two Faces
as Peter Murphy
1968
7.0
Journey to the Unknown
1968
6.3
The Doris Day Show
as Sgt. Bill Winston
1968
5.8
The Mod Squad
1968
6.2
The Name of the Game
as Fred Martin
1968
6.8
Mannix
as George Edward Diamond
1967
6.7
Mannix
as Chief Carl Yaring
1967
6.7
The High Chaparral
as Marshall Virgil Packer
1967
6.6
Cimarron Strip
as Darcy
1967
5.5
Star Trek
as Gary Seven
1966
8.0
The Monroes
1966
5.7
The Man Who Never Was
as Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright
1966
0.0
Namu, the Killer Whale
as Hank Donner
1966
4.6
An Eye for an Eye
as Bill Talion
1966
7.6
The Loner
as Hibbard
1965
5.7
Branded
1965
6.6
Daniel Boone
as Capt. Robert Ives
1964
7.0
12 O'Clock High
as Brigadier General Frank Savage
1964
7.2
Calhoun
as Eric Sloane
1964
6.0
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
as Dr. Charles Howard
1963
5.9
A Gathering of Eagles
as Sgt. Banning
1963
5.7
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Virginian
as George Calhoun
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Matt Denning
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Lee Knight
1962
6.4
Saints and Sinners
as Don Colley
1962
6.0
Sam Benedict
1962
6.0
87th Precinct
as Detective Steve Carella
1961
7.5
The DuPont Show of the Week
as Mooney
1961
6.0
The Fatal Impulse
as Lieutenant Brian Rome
1960
1.0
Outlaws
1960
6.2
Thriller
as Lieutenant Brian Rome
1960
6.6
The Tall Man
1960
6.3
The Pusher
as Steve Carella
1960
5.7
4D Man
as Dr. Scott Nelson
1959
5.7
The Twilight Zone
as Douglas Stansfield
1959
8.5
Bonanza
as Jed Trask
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Gunny O'Riley
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as John Dundee
1959
7.5
One Step Beyond
as Jared Corning
1959
5.6
🎬
Young Doctor Malone
1958
3.0
The Donna Reed Show
1958
6.2
Gunsmoke
as Luke Frazer
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Yancy Tyce
1955
6.6
General Electric Theater
as James Wilson
1953
6.4