Birthday
1947/04/02 (77 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Wahpeton, North Dakota, USA
Also know as
سام اندرسون
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.
(1994) The Puppet Masters
as Culbertson
(2000) The Independent
as Ed
(1990) Dark Angel
as Warren
(2011) Water for Elephants
as Mr. Hyde
(1998) The Pentagon Wars
as Congressman #2
(2014) Devil's Due
as Father Thomas
(2013) Breaking the Girls
as Professor Nolan
(1998) What I Did for Love
as Richard
(2000) Sonic Impact
as Alex Holmes
(1979) The Swap
as Paul
(2022) Where the Crawdads Sing
as Tate (mid-70s)
(2006) Dirty Habit
as Bishop
(1999) NetForce
as Fox
(2005) Touched
as Dr. Reynolds
(2000) Perfect Game
as Steven
(1993) A Place To Be Loved
as Judge Thomas S. Kirk
(1996) Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
as Quote Reader
(1994) Forrest Gump
as Principal Hancock
(2024) The Lift
as ---
(2018) Song of Back and Neck
as Jarred Foxen
(1983) Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade
as Paul Iberville
(2016) Ouija: Origin of Evil
as Mr. Browning
(2003) Secret Santa
as Mr. Gibson
(1987) La Bamba
as Mr. Ludwig
(1998) Permanent Midnight
as Dr. Olson
(2012) 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom
as Chris
(2017) Do You Take This Man
as Steven
(2002) Slackers
as Charles Patton
(1983) Policewoman Centerfold
as Druggist
(1996) The Man Next Door
as Dwight Cooley
(1985) Movers & Shakers
as Ray Berg
(2017) Maybe Someday
as Douglas Donnelly
(1992) Memoirs of an Invisible Man
as Chairman of the House Committee
(1982) The Tragedy of King Lear
as Duke of Albany
(1988) Critters 2
as Mr. Morgan
(1985) Growing Pains
as Principal Willis Dewitt
(1978) WKRP in Cincinnati
as Agent Berwick
(1986) Perfect Strangers
as Sam Gorpley
(2002) CSI: Miami
as Scott Sommer
(2003) Miracles
as ---
(1996) Everybody Loves Raymond
as Special Agent Thomas Garfield
(1999) Angel
as Holland Manners
(2004) CSI: NY
as Dr. Richards
(2000) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Dr. Mercer
(1993) The X-Files
as Leamus
(1996) Millennium
as Agent Jack Pierson
(2004) Lost
as Bernard Nadler
(1994) Chicago Hope
as ---
(1993) Diagnosis: Murder
as Ernie Pitt
(2003) Married to the Kellys
as Bill Kelly
(1987) The Charmings
as ---
(2005) Medium
as Eliot Peterson
(1999) Family Law
as Carlisle Tucker
(1984) E/R
as ---
(1995) Live Shot
as Marvin Seaborne
(1997) The Visitor
as Army General
(1984) Mama Malone
as Stanley
(1984) Tales from the Darkside
as Dr. Synapsis
(2010) Hawaii Five-0
as Owen Sutherland
(1980) The Stockard Channing Show
as ---
(2010) Justified
as Lee Paxton
(2012) Men At Work
as James Wilson
(1993) Diagnosis: Murder
as Dr. Hjortsberg
(2009) Castle
as Principal Duncan
(1984) Hunter
as Vinny Cochran
(2014) Chasing Life
as Gerald Rayburn
(1998) From the Earth to the Moon
as Thomas Paine
(1978) WKRP in Cincinnati
as Mason Nobel
(1978) WKRP in Cincinnati
as Mr. Anderson
(1978) WKRP in Cincinnati
as Rex Erhardt
(2005) Grey's Anatomy
as Michael Whitman
(2001) Wolf Lake
as Arthur Van Halen
(2023) Painkiller
as Raymond Sackler
(1994) Friends
as Dr. Harad
(2016) Damien
as Professor Igor Reneus
(1995) Nowhere Man
as The Man
(1982) Newhart
as ---
(1987) Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Assistant Manager
(1999) The West Wing
as John LaSalle
(2016) This Is Us
as Judge Walter Crowder
(2012) Scandal
as Melvin Feen
(1996) The Cape
as Kevin Davis, CAPCOM
(2011) Grimm
as Old Man
(2011) Grimm
as Rolek Porter
(1987) 21 Jump Street
as Dan Finger
(1993) The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
as Simon Wolfe
(2003) NCIS
as Walter Carmichael
(2018) Station 19
as Elliott
(1982) T. J. Hooker
as Leo Santee
(1992) Melrose Place
as Agent Hill
(1986) L.A. Law
as D.D.A. Bill Graphia
(2018) A Million Little Things
as Mr. Dennings
(2005) Bones
as Hugo Sanderson
(2008) Leverage
as Henry Retzing
(1998) Fantasy Island
as Mr. Gable
(2002) Without a Trace
as Congressman Whitehurst
(1988) In the Heat of the Night
as Drew Ward
(1985) The Golden Girls
as Meyer
(1994) ER
as Jack Kayson
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Ethan Stevens
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Neil Fraser
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Stuart Himes
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Dan the Electrician
(1996) Boston Common
as Wesley Butterfield
(2000) Malcolm in the Middle
as Police Commissioner
(1997) Ally McBeal
as Mark Harrison
(2009) The Forgotten
as Train Driver
(2024) Matlock
as Edwin Kingston
(2014) How to Get Away with Murder
as Thomas Fitzgerald
(2009) NCIS: Los Angeles
as Senator Dick Osborne
(1994) The Stand
as Whitney Horgan