Sam Anderson
Biography
Sam Anderson (born April 2, 1947) is an American actor. He is best known for his character roles such as Sam Gorpley on Perfect Strangers, Holland Manners on Angel, dentist Bernard Nadler on Lost, Happy Days-loving Doctor Harad who delivered Phoebe's triplets in Friends' 100th episode, and in film, as the principal in Forrest Gump.
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Acting History
2024
Matlock as Edwin Kingston
2024The Lift
2023Painkiller as Raymond Sackler
2022Where the Crawdads Sing as Tate (mid-70s)
2018A Million Little Things as Mr. Dennings
2018Song of Back and Neck as Jarred Foxen
2018Station 19 as Elliott
2017Do You Take This Man as Steven
2017Maybe Someday as Douglas Donnelly
2016Ouija: Origin of Evil as Mr. Browning
2016This Is Us as Judge Walter Crowder
2016Damien as Professor Igor Reneus
2014How to Get Away with Murder as Thomas Fitzgerald
2014Chasing Life as Gerald Rayburn
2014Devil's Due as Father Thomas
2013Breaking the Girls as Professor Nolan
20123, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom as Chris
2012Men at Work as James Wilson
2012Scandal as Melvin Feen
2011Grimm as Old Man
2011Grimm as Rolek Porter
2011Water for Elephants as Mr. Hyde
2011Harry's Law as Judge William Rothman
2010Hawaii Five-0 as Owen Sutherland
2010Justified as Lee Paxton
2009NCIS: Los Angeles as Senator Dick Osborne
2009The Forgotten as Train Driver
2009Castle as Principal Duncan
2008Leverage as Henry Retzing
2006Dirty Habit as Bishop
2005Touched as Dr. Reynolds
2005Bones as Hugo Sanderson
2005Grey's Anatomy as Michael Whitman
2005Medium as Eliot Peterson
2004Boston Legal as Walter Fife
2004Lost as Bernard Nadler
2004CSI: NY as Dr. Richards
2003Secret Santa as Mr. Gibson
2003Married to the Kellys as Bill Kelly
2003NCIS as Walter Carmichael
2003Miracles as Cinda's Father
2002Without a Trace as Congressman Whitehurst
2002CSI: Miami as Scott Sommer
2002Slackers as Charles Patton
2001Wolf Lake as Arthur Van Halen
2000Sonic Impact as Alex Holmes
2000The Independent as Ed
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Dr. Mercer
2000Perfect Game as Steven
2000Malcolm in the Middle as Police Commissioner
1999Angel as Holland Manners
1999The West Wing as John LaSalle
1999Family Law as Carlisle Tucker
1999NetForce as Fox
1998Fantasy Island as Mr. Gable
1998Permanent Midnight as Dr. Olson
1998What I Did for Love as Richard
1998From the Earth to the Moon as Thomas Paine
1998Two Guys and a Girl as Dr. Harvey
1998The Pentagon Wars as Congressman #2
1997The Visitor as Army General
1997Ally McBeal as Mark Harrison
1997The Sleepwalker Killing as Roth Lane
1997The Last Hand as Jimmy Walsh
1996Millennium as Agent Jack Pierson
1996Profiler as Ken Harker
1996Everybody Loves Raymond as Special Agent Thomas Garfield
1996The Cape as Kevin Davis, CAPCOM
1996Boston Common as Wesley Butterfield
1996The Man Next Door as Dwight Cooley
1996Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen as Quote Reader
1995Live Shot as Marvin Seaborne
1995Nowhere Man as The Man
1994The Puppet Masters as Culbertson
1994Friends as Dr. Harad
1994ER as Jack Kayson
1994Chicago Hope as Howard Sherwood
1994Forrest Gump as Principal Hancock
1994The Stand as Whitney Horgan
1993Diagnosis: Murder as Ernie Pitt
1993Diagnosis: Murder as Dr. Hjortsberg
1993The X-Files as Leamus
1993The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. as Simon Wolfe
1993A Place to Be Loved as Judge Thomas S. Kirk
1992Picket Fences as FBI Agent Donald Morrell
1992Melrose Place as Agent Hill
1992Memoirs of an Invisible Man as Chairman of the House Committee
1990Dark Angel as Warren
1988Critters 2 as Mr. Morgan
1988In the Heat of the Night as Drew Ward
1987Star Trek: The Next Generation as Assistant Manager
1987La Bamba as Mr. Ludwig
198721 Jump Street as Dan Finger
1987The Charmings
1986L.A. Law as D.A. Bill Graphia
1986Perfect Strangers as Sam Gorpley
1985Growing Pains as Principal Willis Dewitt
1985The Golden Girls as Meyer
1985Movers & Shakers as Ray Berg
1984Murder, She Wrote as Ethan Stevens
1984Murder, She Wrote as Neil Fraser
1984Murder, She Wrote as Stuart Himes
1984Murder, She Wrote as Dan the Electrician
1984Tales from the Darkside as Dr. Synapsis
1984Hunter as Vinny Cochran
1984E/R
1984Mama Malone as Stanley
1984Blue Thunder as Benjamin Kelty
1983Policewoman Centerfold as Druggist
1983Hardcastle and McCormick as Teddy Peters
1983Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade as Paul Iberville
1982The Tragedy of King Lear as Duke of Albany
1982St. Elsewhere as Mr. McGrath
1982Newhart
1982T. J. Hooker as Leo Santee
1980Magnum, P.I. as Ray Jones / John Doe
1980The Stockard Channing Show
1979The Swap as Paul
1978WKRP in Cincinnati as Agent Berwick
1978WKRP in Cincinnati as Mason Nobel
1978WKRP in Cincinnati as Mr. Anderson
1978WKRP in Cincinnati as Rex Erhardt