Apr 2, 1947 - Wahpeton, North Dakota, USA
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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| Movie | 1994 | The Puppet Masters | Culbertson | |
| Movie | 2000 | The Independent | Ed | |
| Movie | 1990 | Dark Angel | Warren | |
| Movie | 2011 | Water for Elephants | Mr. Hyde | |
| Movie | 1998 | The Pentagon Wars | Congressman #2 | |
| Movie | 2014 | Devil's Due | Father Thomas | |
| Movie | 2013 | Breaking the Girls | Professor Nolan | |
| Movie | 1998 | What I Did for Love | Richard | |
| Movie | 2000 | Sonic Impact | Alex Holmes | |
| Movie | 1979 | The Swap | Paul | |
| Movie | 2022 | Where the Crawdads Sing | Tate (mid-70s) | |
| Movie | 2006 | Dirty Habit | Bishop | |
| Movie | 1999 | NetForce | Fox | |
| Movie | 2005 | Touched | Dr. Reynolds | |
| Movie | 2000 | Perfect Game | Steven | |
| Movie | 1993 | A Place to Be Loved | Judge Thomas S. Kirk | |
| Movie | 1996 | Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen | Quote Reader | |
| Movie | 1994 | Forrest Gump | Principal Hancock | |
| Movie | 2024 | The Lift | ||
| Movie | 2018 | Song of Back and Neck | Jarred Foxen | |
| Movie | 1983 | Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade | Paul Iberville | |
| Movie | 2016 | Ouija: Origin of Evil | Mr. Browning | |
| Movie | 2003 | Secret Santa | Mr. Gibson | |
| Movie | 1987 | La Bamba | Mr. Ludwig | |
| Movie | 1998 | Permanent Midnight | Dr. Olson | |
| Movie | 2012 | 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom | Chris | |
| Movie | 2017 | Do You Take This Man | Steven | |
| Movie | 2002 | Slackers | Charles Patton | |
| Movie | 1983 | Policewoman Centerfold | Druggist | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Man Next Door | Dwight Cooley | |
| Movie | 1985 | Movers & Shakers | Ray Berg | |
| Movie | 2017 | Maybe Someday | Douglas Donnelly | |
| Movie | 1992 | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | Chairman of the House Committee | |
| Movie | 1982 | The Tragedy of King Lear | Duke of Albany | |
| Movie | 1988 | Critters 2 | Mr. Morgan | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Last Hand | Jimmy Walsh | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Sleepwalker Killing | Roth Lane | |
| TV Show | 1985 | Growing Pains | Principal Willis Dewitt | 1 |
| TV Show | 1978 | WKRP in Cincinnati | Agent Berwick | 1 |
| TV Show | 1986 | Perfect Strangers | Sam Gorpley | 122 |
| TV Show | 2002 | CSI: Miami | Scott Sommer | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Miracles | Cinda's Father | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Everybody Loves Raymond | Special Agent Thomas Garfield | 1 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Angel | Holland Manners | 8 |
| TV Show | 2004 | CSI: NY | Dr. Richards | 1 |
| TV Show | 2000 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Dr. Mercer | 1 |
| TV Show | 1993 | The X-Files | Leamus | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Millennium | Agent Jack Pierson | 1 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Lost | Bernard Nadler | 21 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Chicago Hope | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1993 | Diagnosis: Murder | Ernie Pitt | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Married to the Kellys | Bill Kelly | 22 |
| TV Show | 1987 | The Charmings | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2005 | Medium | Eliot Peterson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Family Law | Carlisle Tucker | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | E/R | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1995 | Live Shot | Marvin Seaborne | 13 |
| TV Show | 1997 | The Visitor | Army General | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Mama Malone | Stanley | 13 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Tales from the Darkside | Dr. Synapsis | 1 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Hawaii Five-0 | Owen Sutherland | 1 |
| TV Show | 1980 | The Stockard Channing Show | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2010 | Justified | Lee Paxton | 9 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Men At Work | James Wilson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Diagnosis: Murder | Dr. Hjortsberg | 2 |
| TV Show | 2009 | Castle | Principal Duncan | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Hunter | Vinny Cochran | 1 |
| TV Show | 2014 | Chasing Life | Gerald Rayburn | 2 |
| TV Show | 1998 | From the Earth to the Moon | Thomas Paine | 2 |
| TV Show | 1978 | WKRP in Cincinnati | Mr. Anderson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1978 | WKRP in Cincinnati | Rex Erhardt | 1 |
| TV Show | 1978 | WKRP in Cincinnati | Mason Nobel | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Grey's Anatomy | Michael Whitman | 1 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Wolf Lake | Arthur Van Halen | 1 |
| TV Show | 2023 | Painkiller | Raymond Sackler | 6 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Friends | Dr. Harad | 1 |
| TV Show | 2016 | Damien | Professor Igor Reneus | 1 |
| TV Show | 1995 | Nowhere Man | The Man | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Newhart | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1987 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Assistant Manager | 1 |
| TV Show | 1999 | The West Wing | John LaSalle | 1 |
| TV Show | 2016 | This Is Us | Judge Walter Crowder | 1 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Scandal | Melvin Feen | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | The Cape | Kevin Davis, CAPCOM | 1 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Grimm | Old Man | 1 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Grimm | Rolek Porter | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | 21 Jump Street | Dan Finger | 1 |
| TV Show | 1993 | The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. | Simon Wolfe | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | NCIS | Walter Carmichael | 1 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Station 19 | Elliott | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | T. J. Hooker | Leo Santee | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Melrose Place | Agent Hill | 2 |
| TV Show | 1986 | L.A. Law | D.D.A. Bill Graphia | 1 |
| TV Show | 2018 | A Million Little Things | Mr. Dennings | 2 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Bones | Hugo Sanderson | 2 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Leverage | Henry Retzing | 1 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Fantasy Island | Mr. Gable | 1 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Without a Trace | Congressman Whitehurst | 1 |
| TV Show | 1988 | In the Heat of the Night | Drew Ward | 1 |
| TV Show | 1985 | The Golden Girls | Meyer | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | ER | Jack Kayson | 18 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Neil Fraser | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Ethan Stevens | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Stuart Himes | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Dan the Electrician | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Boston Common | Wesley Butterfield | 7 |
| TV Show | 2000 | Malcolm in the Middle | Police Commissioner | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Ally McBeal | Mark Harrison | 1 |
| TV Show | 2009 | The Forgotten | Train Driver | 1 |
| TV Show | 2024 | Matlock | Edwin Kingston | 18 |
| TV Show | 2014 | How to Get Away with Murder | Thomas Fitzgerald | 1 |
| TV Show | 2009 | NCIS: Los Angeles | Senator Dick Osborne | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | The Stand | Whitney Horgan | 3 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Two Guys and a Girl | Dr. Harvey | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Blue Thunder | Benjamin Kelty | 1 |
| TV Show | 1980 | Magnum, P.I. | Ray Jones / John Doe | 1 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Harry's Law | Judge William Rothman | 1 |
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