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.

Filmography

• Kung Fu: The Legend Continues — Paul Blaisdell
• Law & Order — COO Peter O'Farrell
• 1989Memories of Manon — Control
• 1988After School — C.A. Thomas
• American Experience — Narrator
• Monsters — Ernest Chariot
• 1988The Nest — Elias Johnson
• 1987The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine — Control
• The Equalizer — Control
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — G. William Howe
• Murder, She Wrote — Herb Walsh, Lawrence Jarvis
• Automan — Lt. Jack Curtis
• Hotel
• Simon & Simon
• 1980Island Claws — Moody
• 1980Life on the Mississippi
• 1980S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert — Owen Hooper
• 1977Empire of the Ants — Dan Stokely
• 1977False Face — Dr. Phillip Reynolds
• 1977The Deadly Triangle — Charles Cole
• 1976Acapulco Gold — Carl Solborg
• 1976Bittersweet Love — Howard
• 1976Widow — Harold
• 1975Crime Club — Alex Norton
• The Evil Touch
• 1973Thirty Dangerous Seconds
• 1972Killer by Night — Warren Claman
• 1972The Astronaut — John Phillips
• The Rookies
• 1972Wild in the Sky — Major Reason
• Great Performances — Horace Bixby
• 1971The Grissom Gang — Dave Fenner
• 1969It Takes All Kinds — Tony Gunther
• 1968Danger Has Two Faces — Peter Murphy
• Journey to the Unknown — Jon Holden
• The Doris Day Show — Sgt. Bill Winston
• The Mod Squad
• The Name of the Game — Fred Martin
• Cimarron Strip — Darcy
• Mannix — George Edward Diamond, Chief Carl Yaring
• The High Chaparral — Marshall Virgil Packer
• 1966An Eye for an Eye — Bill Talion
• 1966Namu, the Killer Whale — Hank Donner
• Star Trek — Gary Seven
• The Man Who Never Was — Peter Murphy / Mark Wainwright
• The Monroes
• Branded
• The Loner — Hibbard
• 12 O'Clock High — Brigadier General Frank Savage
• 1964Calhoun — Eric Sloane
• Daniel Boone — Capt. Robert Ives
• 1963A Gathering of Eagles — Sgt. Banning
• 1963Under the Yum Yum Tree — Dr. Charles Howard
• Saints and Sinners — Don Colley
• Sam Benedict
• The Virginian — George Calhoun, Matt Denning, Lee Knight
• 87th Precinct — Detective Steve Carella
• The DuPont Show of the Week — Mooney
• Checkmate — Barry Sironde
• Outlaws
• The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
• 1960The Fatal Impulse — Lieutenant Brian Rome
• 1960The Pusher — Steve Carella
• The Tall Man
• Thriller — Lieutenant Brian Rome
• 19594D Man — Dr. Scott Nelson
• Bonanza — Jed Trask, Gunny O'Riley, John Dundee
• One Step Beyond — Jared Corning
• The Twilight Zone — Douglas Stansfield
• The Donna Reed Show
• Young Doctor Malone
• Gunsmoke — Luke Frazer, Yancy Tyce
• General Electric Theater — James Wilson
• You Are There — William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State

Appearances as themselves (1)

• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self