John Anderson (actor)
John Anderson  was the actor who played the role of Kevin Uxbridge in the   third season episode . Anderson also had a recurring role on the hit television series MacGyver, and is remembered for several roles on the original The Twilight Zone series, including the airline pilot on the ill-fated "Odyssey of Flight 33". He also guested on the Gene Roddenberry series The Lieutenant.

Anderson was born in Clayton, Illinois. He bore a strong resemblance to Abraham Lincoln and portrayed him in two separate projects. Anderson also had a small role as the friendly car salesman in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. His "The Survivors" co-star Anne Haney later played the sheriff's wife in the Gus Van Sant remake. In 1983, he had a guest appearance on M*A*S*H alongside TNG guest star David Ogden Stiers. In 1992, he had a guest role in an episode of Quantum Leap, starring 's Scott Bakula. The two had also previously acted together in the 1986 TV Movie I-Man. Anderson and Marianna Hill appeared in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Greek Goddess". In 1987, Anderson had a small role in the TV movie Race Against the Harvest A.K.A. American Harvest alongside Matt McCoy, Randal Patrick, and John Pyper-Ferguson. Anderson portrayed baseball commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis in the hit 1988 drama Eight Men Out based on the Chicago Black Sox Scandal of the 1919 World Series. Anderson worked alongside Gordon Clapp, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Lynch, James Read, and Kevin Tighe. Anderson also played the father of Jonathan Frakes' character in the 1985 miniseries North and South.  Anderson starred in the 1991 television movie In Broad Daylight alongside Robert Schenkkan, Bill Bolender, and Elizabeth Dennehy's father Brian Dennehy.

Anderson once played the role of Mr. Pike, a grieving widower obsessed with a music box in memory of his late wife in an episode of Little House on the Prairie (1975). 

Anderson died of a heart attack two and a half months before his seventieth birthday on 7 August 1992 at his home in Sherman Oaks, California.

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