Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson

Born: July 12, 1920
Died: January 4, 1996
in Casey Township, North Dakota, USA
Robert Anderson was born on July 12, 1920 in Casey Township, North Dakota, USA as Robert Gerold Anderson. He was an actor, known for Coronado 9 (1960), My Friend Flicka (1955) and Death Valley Days (1952). He died on January 4, 1996 in Desert Hot Springs, California, USA

Movies for Robert Anderson...

Young Billy Young
Title: Young Billy Young
Character: Gambler
Released: October 15, 1969
Type: Movie
A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lords, in the old West. Kane is no lawman, but he accepts the badge because he has an old score to settle with the town's chief trouble-maker. Once on the job, Kane must also deal with a young sharpshooter named Billy Young and a sharp and sassy saloon dancer, Lily.
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
Title: The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
Character: Jed (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1969
Type: Movie
An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are usurped by a younger, but incompetent Marshal, and a younger, but vicious gang leader.
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Support Your Local Sheriff!
Title: Support Your Local Sheriff!
Character: Man at Kate's Eatery (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1969
Type: Movie
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
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Title: The Mothers-in-Law
Character: Policeman
Released: September 10, 1967
Type: TV
The Mothers-in-Law is an American sitcom starring Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard as two matriarchs who were friends and next-door neighbors whose children's elopement rendered them in-laws. The show aired on NBC from September 1967 to April 1969. Produced by Desi Arnaz, the series was created by Bob Carroll, Jr., and Madelyn Davis.
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Period of Adjustment
Title: Period of Adjustment
Character: Cop with Drunken Carolers (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1962
Type: Movie
A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
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Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock
Title: Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock
Character: Carl 'Whip' Mott (as Bob Anderson)
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Five passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver in the desert. Trying to survive, they struggle with illness, thirst, hunger, and the threats posed both by one another and the local Indigenous peoples.
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The Gambler Wore a Gun
Title: The Gambler Wore a Gun
Character: Tray Larkin
Released: May 4, 1961
Type: Movie
The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.
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The Crowning Experience
Title: The Crowning Experience
Character: Blaney
Released: October 22, 1960
Type: Movie
Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies that, with her earnings, she established many schools for the under-privileged.
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The Purple Gang
Title: The Purple Gang
Character: Police Commissioner
Released: December 18, 1959
Type: Movie
The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detroit.
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Joy Ride
Title: Joy Ride
Character: Ellensten
Released: November 23, 1958
Type: Movie
Teenage story of a bad apple in a barrel evolving from a kid's desire to drive a new T-bird.
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Title: Wanted: Dead or Alive
Character: Bully in Marshalls Office
Released: September 6, 1958
Type: TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.
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Buchanan Rides Alone
Title: Buchanan Rides Alone
Character: Waldo Peck
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Passing through a border town, a man is caught up in a Mexican's murder of a member of the town's most powerful family.
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The Man Who Died Twice
Title: The Man Who Died Twice
Character: Sgt. Williams (as Bob Anderson)
Released: June 6, 1958
Type: Movie
An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of narcotics agents.
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High School Hellcats
Title: High School Hellcats
Character: Police Lt. Manners
Released: June 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The Hellcats are an all-female gang bent on bucking authority and terrorizing the schools by doing things like having a bad attitude toward their teachers and parents. When Joyce, a new student, moves into the neighborhood, she draws the attention of The Hellcats. Desperate for acceptance and unhappy with her homelife, Joyce goes along with the gang, and is soon drinking, dancing and meeting boys. Can her parents stop her descent into depravity?
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The Left Handed Gun
Title: The Left Handed Gun
Character: Hill
Released: May 7, 1958
Type: Movie
When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
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Title: The Court of Last Resort
Character: Park Street Jr
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: TV
The Court of Last Resort is an American television dramatized court show which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1958. It was co-produced by Erle Stanley Gardner's Paisano Productions, which also brought forth the long-running hit television program, Perry Mason on CBS. Its approach to dealing with potential miscarriages of justice in an entirely extra-judicial format was adopted by the BBC series Rough Justice in the 1980s.
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The Tall T
Title: The Tall T
Character: Jace (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1957
Type: Movie
An independent former ranch foreman and an heiress are kidnapped by a trio of ruthless outlaws.
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The Night Runner
Title: The Night Runner
Character: Ed Wallace
Released: April 2, 1957
Type: Movie
A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was he released too soon?
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The Phantom Stagecoach
Title: The Phantom Stagecoach
Character: Varney (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1957
Type: Movie
A stagecoach is plagued by robberies, but it takes an undercover Wells Fargo agent to discover that a rival company is responsible.
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Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Constable Willets (as Bob Anderson)
Released: March 18, 1957
Type: TV
Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.
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Showdown at Abilene
Title: Showdown at Abilene
Character: Sprague (as Robert G. Anderson)
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged to Trask's former sweetheart and is one of the cattlemen increasingly feuding with the original farmers. Trask is persuaded to take up as sheriff again but there is something about the death of Mosely's brother in the Civil War that is haunting him.
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Toy Tiger
Title: Toy Tiger
Character: State Trooper
Released: June 29, 1956
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Meanwhile, Gwen's fatherless son Timmie, at a remote boys' school, is riding for a fall by manufacturing evidence of his "explorer father." By an amazing coincidence, Rick steps off the bus at just the right moment for Timmie to recruit him as "father" without his knowledge. With no intention of collaborating, the befuddled Rick is carried along by the sweep of events. Who can predict the outcome?
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Sheriff Jim Hill
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Wichita
Title: Wichita
Character: Bank Robber (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1955
Type: Movie
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
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Rose Marie
Title: Rose Marie
Character: Corporal
Released: March 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The feeling is mutual. But, when she leaves to learn proper etiquette, Rose Marie meets a trapper named James Duval, who also falls for her. Further complications arise when Native American Chief Black Eagle -- a rival of Duval's -- is murdered.
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The Wild One
Title: The Wild One
Character: Sage Valley Race Patrolman (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1953
Type: Movie
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
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All Ashore
Title: All Ashore
Character: Ship's Officer
Released: March 3, 1953
Type: Movie
Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.
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Title: Death Valley Days
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns continuing through August 1, 1975. The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all the former Death Valley Days hosts are now deceased.
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Untamed Frontier
Title: Untamed Frontier
Character: Ezra McCloud
Released: July 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...
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Cripple Creek
Title: Cripple Creek
Released: June 30, 1952
Type: Movie
It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted, and then having it plated to look like lead. The Government sends agents Bret and Larry who arrive in Cripple Creek posing as Texas gunfighters. Bret finds the smelting operation and Larry learns of the payoff. But the crooked town Marshal is suspicious of the two men and the reply of his inquiry to Texas exposes them putting their lives in danger.
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Silver City
Title: Silver City
Released: December 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to acquire a rich silver mine lease from its operators.
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Bright Victory
Title: Bright Victory
Character: Military Policeman (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
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Two of a Kind
Title: Two of a Kind
Character: Todd
Released: July 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Brandy Kirby and crooked Lawyer Vincent Mailer plan to rob William and Maida McIntyre by producing a convincing double for their long-lost son. Brandy charms gambler Lefty Farrell into impersonating the missing son.
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The Desert Hawk
Title: The Desert Hawk
Character: Judah
Released: August 5, 1950
Type: Movie
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
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Winchester '73
Title: Winchester '73
Character: Basset (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
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Peggy
Title: Peggy
Character: Man with Van
Released: July 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
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Gold Strike
Title: Gold Strike
Character: Bart (as Bob Anderson)
Released: March 30, 1950
Type: Movie
Musical western short
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Undertow
Title: Undertow
Character: Stoner
Released: December 3, 1949
Type: Movie
Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer. Watch carefully in Undertow and you'll spot new Universal contractee "Roc" Hudson as a plainclothes detective.