Sam Anderson | |
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Born | Clark, South Dakota, U.S. | April 2, 1947
Alma mater | University of North Dakota, Antelope Valley College |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1969–present |
Children | 2 [1] |
Sam Anderson (born April 2, 1947) [2] is an American actor. He is best known for his character roles such as Sam Gorpley on Perfect Strangers , Principal Willis DeWitt on Growing Pains , Holland Manners on Angel , dentist Bernard Nadler on Lost , Doctor Harad in Friends , and in film, as the principal in Forrest Gump . [3] [4]
Anderson was born in Clark, South Dakota and grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota. [5] He received a Master of Arts degree in American literature and creative writing at the University of North Dakota and the University of Wisconsin. [6] During the 1970s, he taught drama at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, California.
Anderson is best known for his roles as mailroom supervisor Mr. Gorpley on Perfect Strangers , [6] Mike Seaver's adversarial Principal DeWitt on Growing Pains , a chief of Cardiology on ER , the lawyer Holland Manners on the first two seasons of Angel [7] and as Bernard on Lost . [8] In addition, he was one of the recurring actors on various episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati , playing various roles, including an immigration officer in the episode "The Americanization of Ivan". In film, he notably played the school principal in Forrest Gump . [9]
Anderson is also known as the assistant manager of the Hotel Royale in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Royale", and as Doctor Harad in Friends . His other guest-starring roles include Remington Steele , Hill Street Blues , The Golden Girls , Murder, She Wrote , Picket Fences , The West Wing , Everybody Loves Raymond , and many other shows. Anderson guest-starred in Season 8 of NCIS as Walter Carmichael, a middle school teacher whose classroom becomes a crime scene where one of his students is kidnapped. [10]
Anderson's most recent (2024) role is being a part of the reboot of the Matlock series on CBS. He plays the husband (Edwin) of Kathy Bates character Matty Matlock. [11]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1979 | The Swap | Paul | |
1982 | Airplane II: The Sequel | Man in white | |
The Tragedy of King Lear | Duke of Albany | ||
1985 | Movers & Shakers | Ray Berg | |
1987 | La Bamba | Mr. Ludwig | |
1988 | Critters 2: The Main Course | Mr. Morgan | |
1990 | Dark Angel | Warren | |
1992 | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | Chairman of the House Committee | |
1994 | Forrest Gump | Principal | |
The Puppet Masters | Culbertson | ||
1997 | After the Game | Jimmy Walsh | |
1998 | Permanent Midnight | Dr. Olsen | |
1999 | Sonic Impact | Alex Holmes | |
2000 | The Independent | Ed | |
The Distance | John Harrison | ||
2002 | Slackers | Charles Patton | |
2003 | The Commission | Dr. Robert Roeder Shaw | |
2004 | 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover | George | |
2005 | Touched | Dr. Reynolds | |
2006 | Dirty Habit | Bishop | |
2011 | Water for Elephants | Mr. Hyde | |
2012 | 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom | Dad (Chris) | |
Breaking the Girls | Professor Nolan | ||
2014 | Devil's Due | Father Thomas | |
2016 | Do You Take This Man | Steven | |
Ouija: Origin of Evil | Mr. Browning | ||
2017 | Maybe Someday | Douglas Donnelly | |
2018 | Song of Back and Neck | Jarred Foxen | |
2021 | Echoes of Violence | Conroy | |
2022 | Where the Crawdads Sing | Tate Walker old |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1978 | Police Story | Jaques | Episode: "The Broken Badge" |
1979–1981 | WKRP in Cincinnati | Various roles | 4 episodes |
1980 | The Stockard Channing Show | Arnold | Episode: "Catch a Falling Star" |
1983 | St. Elsewhere | Mr. McGrath | Episode: "Dog Day Hospital" |
Gloria | Mr. Copley | Episode: "An Uncredited Woman" | |
Murder 1, Dancer 0 | Paul Iberville | TV movie | |
Remington Steele | Store manager | Episode: "Altared Steele" | |
Policewoman Centerfold | Druggist | TV movie | |
1984 | Blue Thunder | Benjamin Kelty | Episode: "Arms Race" |
T. J. Hooker | Leo Santee | Episode: "Death Strip" | |
Mama Malone | Stanley, the announcer | 11 episodes | |
E/R | Mr. Dobbs | Episode: "All's Well That Ends" | |
Hill Street Blues | Kenny Sterling | Episode: "Last Chance Salon" | |
1985 | Hotel | Lon Schaeffer | Episode: "Fallen Idols" |
Magnum, P.I. | Ray Jones / John Doe | Episode: "Ms. Jones" | |
Dallas | Inspector Frank Howard | 2 episodes | |
Tales from the Darkside | Dr. Synapsis | Episode: "Bigalow's Last Smoke" | |
Hunter | Vinny Cochran | Episode: "Case X" | |
Newhart | Larry's supporter | Episode: "Candidate Larry" | |
Simon & Simon | Ellis | Episode: "Down-Home Country Blues" | |
Eye to Eye | Walter Briggs | Episode #1.6 | |
1986 | Hardcastle and McCormick | Teddy Peters | Episode: "McCormick's Bar and Grill" |
Valerie | Customer | Episode: "This Son for Hire" | |
Rowdies | George Modell | TV movie | |
You Again? | Judge | Episode: "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Traffic Lights" | |
The Golden Girls | Meyer | Episode: "'Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas" | |
1986–1992 | Growing Pains | Principal Willis Dewitt | 13 episodes |
1986–1992 | Perfect Strangers | Mr. Sam Gorpley / Harrison Harper | 37 episodes |
1987 | Cagney & Lacey | Mike | Episode: "Easy Does It" |
What's Happening Now!! | Ingraham | Episode: "Raj on the Double" | |
The Charmings | Dr. Peters | Episode: "Pilot" | |
Buck James | Elias Turner | Episode: "Sins of the Father" | |
1988 | 21 Jump Street | Dan Finger | Episode: "School's Out" |
1989 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Assistant manager | Episode: "The Royale" |
Hooperman | Dr. Lazlo | Episode: "Dog Day Afternoon, Morning and Night" | |
Alien Nation | Thomas Edison | Episode: "The Game" | |
1990 & 1991 | Uncle Buck | Kroger | 2 episodes |
1991 | Married People | Beiderman | Episode: "You Were Right and I Was..." |
1991–1993 | L.A. Law | D.D.A. Bill Graphia | 4 episodes |
1992 | The New WKRP in Cincinnati | Floyd Castro | Episode: "Mama Was a Rolling Stone" |
Jake and the Fatman | Arnie Crane | Episode: "Nightmare" | |
1992–1995 | Picket Fences | FBI Agent Donald Morrell | 7 episodes |
1993 | A Place to Be Loved | Judge Thomas S. Kirk | Television film |
Danger Theatre | Andre the Gourmet | Episode: "An Old Friend for Dinner" | |
Melrose Place | Agent Hill | 2 episodes | |
1993–1996 | Murder, She Wrote | Various roles | 4 episodes |
1994 | In the Heat of the Night | Drew Ward | Episode: "Maybelle Returns" |
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil | Father Dominic | TV movie | |
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. | Simon Wolfe | Episode: "Brooklyn Dodgers" | |
The Stand | Whitney Horgan | Miniseries | |
Thunder Alley | Mr. Riley | Episode: "Speak No Evil" | |
1994 & 2000 | Diagnosis: Murder | Dr. Hjortsberg / Ernie Pitt | 3 episodes |
1994–2007 | ER | Dr. Jack Kayson | 20 episodes |
1995 | Pointman | Phil Lettamar | Episode: "Trading Up in the Pale Moonlight" |
Live Shot | Marvin Seaborne | 13 episodes | |
1996 | The Man Next Door | Dwight Cooley | TV movie |
Nowhere Man | The Man | Episode: "Through a Lens Darkly" | |
Norma Jean & Marilyn | Doctor | TV movie | |
The Cape | Kevin Davis, Capcom | Episode: "Pilot" | |
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters | Farrig / Kid #1 | Episode: "Festival of the Festering Moon/Simon's Big Score" | |
High Incident | Gulliksen | Episode: "Who'll Stop the Bombs?" | |
Boston Common | President Butterfield / Wesley Butterfield | 7 episodes | |
Millennium | Agent Jack Pierson | Episode: "522666" | |
1997 | The Jeff Foxworthy Show | Mr. Hertford | Episode: "Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks" |
The Sleepwalker Killing | Roth Lane | Television film | |
The Visitor | Army General | Episode: "The Devil's Rainbow" | |
Fame L.A. | Larry Peters | Episode: "Seize the Day" | |
Rugrats | Salesman / Announcer | Episode: "Ransom of Cynthia/Turtle Recall" | |
The Pretender | Dr. Curtis | Episode: "Over the Edge" | |
1998 | The Pentagon Wars | Congressman #2 | Television film |
Chicago Hope | Howard Sherwood | Episode: "Liver, Hold the Mushrooms" | |
From the Earth to the Moon | Thomas O. Paine | 2 episodes | |
The X-Files | Leamus | Episode: "The Pine Bluff Variant" | |
Prey | Dr. Ian Copeland | 2 episodes | |
Friends | Dr. Harad | Episode: "The One Hundredth" | |
Fantasy Island | Mr. Gable | Episode: "Wishboned" | |
1999 | Ally McBeal | Mark Harrison | Episode: "In Dreams" |
NetForce | Fox | TV movie | |
Profiler | Ken Harker | Episode: "Seduction" | |
2000 | Two Guys and a Girl | Dr. Harvey | Episode: "Love Shack" |
The West Wing | John LaSalle | Episode: "Shibboleth" | |
2000–2001 | Angel | Holland Manners | 8 episodes |
2001 | The Fighting Fitzgeralds | Judge Flanagan | Episode: "One Angry Man" |
JAG | Consulate General Raymond Dart | Episode: "Guilt" | |
2002 | First Monday | Kristen Bremerton's Attorney | Episode: "Age of Consent" |
The Chronicle | Dr. Emmanuel Fickas | Episode: "I See Dead Fat People" | |
Everybody Loves Raymond | Special Agent Thomas Garfield | Episode: "Lucky Suit" | |
The Court | White House Counsel Reinhart | Episode: "Life Sentence" | |
Family Law | Carlisle Tucker | Episode: "Admissions" | |
Wolf Lake | Arthur Van Halen | Episode: "If These Wolves Could Talk" | |
Pasadena | Dr. Paul Darwell | 3 episodes | |
CSI: Miami | Scott Sommer | Episode: "Golden Parachute" | |
Presidio Med | Andy Sloan | Episode: "Pick Your Battles" | |
2003 | Judging Amy | Gordon Kirby | Episode: "The Best Interests of the Child" |
Without a Trace | Congressman Whitehurst | Episode: "Kam Li" | |
Boomtown | Scott Dawson | 2 episodes | |
Miracles | Cinda's Father | Episode: "Mother's Daughter" | |
Secret Santa | Mr. Gibson | Television film | |
2003–2004 | Married to the Kellys | Bill Kelly | 21 episodes |
2004 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Dr. Mercer | Episode: "Ch-Ch-Changes" |
2005 | Boston Legal | Boston Legal | Episode: "From Whence We Came" |
Malcolm in the Middle | Police Commissioner | Episode: "Billboard" | |
Medium | Dr. Eliot Peterson | Episode: "Time Out of Mind" | |
2005–2010 | Lost | Bernard Nadler | 21 episodes |
2006 | Cold Case | Ted Robinson | Episode: "Joseph" |
CSI: NY | Dr. Richards | Episode: "And Here's to You, Mrs. Azrael" | |
2007 | K-Ville | Mr. Dubois | Episode: "Pilot" |
2009 | Leverage | Henry Retzing | Episode: "The Snow Job" |
Grey's Anatomy | Michael Whitman | Episode: "Before and After" | |
Criminal Minds | Dr. Rawlings | Episode: "House on Fire" | |
2010 | The Forgotten | Train engineer | Episode: "Train Jane" |
Memphis Beat | Councilman Orland | Episode: "Don't Be So Cruel" | |
NCIS | Walter Carmichael | Episode: "Worst Nightmare" | |
2012 | Hawaii Five-0 | Owen Sutherland | Episode: "Ka Ho' Oponopono" |
Work It | Dr. Keith Sorenson | Episode: "Shake Your Moneymaker" | |
Harry's Law | Judge William Rothman | Episode: "Judge William Rothman" | |
Men at Work | James Wilson | Episode: "Inventing Milo" | |
NCIS: Los Angeles | Senator Dick Osborne | Episode: "Dead Body Politic" | |
Scandal | Melvin Feen | Episode: "Spies Like Us" | |
2013 | Dallas | Dr. David Gordon | 2 episodes |
2013–2014 | Justified | Lee Paxton | 9 episodes |
2014 | Castle | Principal Dunnan | Episode: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" |
Grimm | Rolek Porter / Old Man | 2 episodes | |
Chasing Life | Gerald Rayburn | ||
Bones | Hugo Sanderson | ||
2016 | Damien | Professor Igor Reneus | Episode: "The Beast Rises" |
2017 | Doubt | Judge Jonah Porter | Episode: "Then and Now" |
This Is Us | Judge Walter Crowder | Episode: "The Most Disappointed Man" | |
2018 | American Woman | Raymond Turner | Episode: "Changes and the New Normal" |
2019 | How to Get Away with Murder | Thomas Fitzgerald | Episode: "I'm the Murderer" |
2023 | Painkiller | Raymond Sackler | 6 episodes |
2024 | Matlock | Edwin | 4 episodes |
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