- Robert Lansing (actor)
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deathplace =Robert Lansing (June 5, 1928 – October 23, 1994) was a
Jew ish American stage,film , andtelevision actor .Born Robert Howell Brown in
San Diego, California , he reportedly took his stage name from the state capital ofMichigan . 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 joinActors 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 theEd McBain detectivenovel s. His costars wereGena Rowlands , Ron Harper,Gregory Walcott , andNorman Fell .Other notable television roles include portrayals of
General George Custer on "Branded ", General Frank Savage on "Twelve O'Clock High" with Chris Robinson and futureU.S. Representative Robert K. Dornan , Peter Murphy/Mark Wainwright on "The Man Who Never Was", Lt. Jack Curtis on "Automan " and Control on "The Equalizer ".Fans of ' however remember him in particular for his portrayal of
secret agent Gary Seven , a/k/a "Supervisor 194" in the episode "" (which was originally intended as the pilot for a spin-off series whichNBC decided not to buy). He also had a notable appearance in "The Twilight Zone" episode, "The Long Morrow ". His final role was that of "Paul Blaisdell" on the series '. He had also been in the late-1950s sci-fi film "The 4-D Man" (which included a youngPatty Duke .)Lansing had a son (Robert Frederick Orin Lansing) from his marriage to actress
Emily McLaughlin ; that marriage ended in divorce. About a year and a half later, he married Gari Hardy, but this marriage ended in divorce as well, although it produced a daughter (Alice Lucille) for Lansing. His last wife was Anne Pivar; they remained together until Lansing's death fromlung cancer in 1994, at age 66. He was buried at Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood,Queens, New York .External links
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