Sam Anderson

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Wahpeton, North Dakota, USA, 1947-04-02

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1979	The Swap	Paul	37
2	1982	The Tragedy of King Lear	Duke of Albany	80
3	1983	Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade	Paul Iberville	68
4	1983	Policewoman Centerfold	Druggist	47
5	1985	Movers & Shakers	Ray Berg	39
6	1987	La Bamba	Mr. Ludwig	72
7	1988	Critters 2	Mr. Morgan	63
8	1990	Dark Angel	Warren	59
9	1992	Memoirs of an Invisible Man	Chairman of the House Committee	59
10	1993	A Place To Be Loved	Judge Thomas S. Kirk	53
11	1994	Forrest Gump	Principal Hancock	85
12	1994	The Puppet Masters	Culbertson	58
13	1996	Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen	Quote Reader	47
14	1996	The Man Next Door	Dwight Cooley	60
15	1998	The Pentagon Wars	Congressman #2	68
16	1998	What I Did for Love	Richard	50
17	1998	Permanent Midnight	Dr. Olson	60
18	1999	NetForce	Fox	47
19	2000	Perfect Game	Steven	80
20	2000	The Independent	Ed	57
21	2000	Sonic Impact	Alex Holmes	54
22	2002	Slackers	Charles Patton	51
23	2003	Secret Santa	Mr. Gibson	47
24	2005	Touched	Dr. Reynolds	71
25	2006	Dirty Habit	Bishop	10
26	2011	Water for Elephants	Mr. Hyde	69
27	2012	3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom	Chris	59
28	2013	Breaking the Girls	Professor Nolan	55
29	2014	Devil's Due	Father Thomas	46
30	2016	Ouija: Origin of Evil	Mr. Browning	61
31	2017	Maybe Someday	Douglas Donnelly	0
32	2017	Do You Take This Man	Steven	50
33	2018	Song of Back and Neck	Jarred Foxen	62
34	2022	Where the Crawdads Sing	Tate (mid-70s)	76
35	2024	The Lift		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1978	WKRP in Cincinnati	Agent Berwick	75
2	1978	WKRP in Cincinnati	Mason Nobel	75
3	1978	WKRP in Cincinnati	Mr. Anderson	75
4	1978	WKRP in Cincinnati	Rex Erhardt	75
5	1980	The Stockard Channing Show		50
6	1982	T. J. Hooker	Leo Santee	63
7	1982	Newhart		71
8	1984	Mama Malone	Stanley	0
9	1984	E/R		52
10	1984	Hunter	Vinny Cochran	72
11	1984	Tales from the Darkside	Dr. Synapsis	72
12	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Ethan Stevens	75
13	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Neil Fraser	75
14	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Stuart Himes	75
15	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Dan the Electrician	75
16	1985	The Golden Girls	Meyer	75
17	1985	Growing Pains	Principal Willis Dewitt	65
18	1986	Perfect Strangers	Sam Gorpley	67
19	1986	L.A. Law	D.D.A. Bill Graphia	71
20	1987	The Charmings		48
21	1987	21 Jump Street	Dan Finger	71
22	1987	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Assistant Manager	84
23	1988	In the Heat of the Night	Drew Ward	75
24	1992	Melrose Place	Agent Hill	59
25	1993	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.	Simon Wolfe	71
26	1993	The X-Files	Leamus	84
27	1993	Diagnosis: Murder	Ernie Pitt	71
28	1993	Diagnosis: Murder	Dr. Hjortsberg	71
29	1994	The Stand	Whitney Horgan	68
30	1994	Chicago Hope		72
31	1994	ER	Jack Kayson	78
32	1994	Friends	Dr. Harad	84
33	1995	Nowhere Man	The Man	75
34	1995	Live Shot	Marvin Seaborne	0
35	1996	Boston Common	Wesley Butterfield	69
36	1996	The Cape	Kevin Davis, CAPCOM	77
37	1996	Everybody Loves Raymond	Special Agent Thomas Garfield	68
38	1996	Millennium	Agent Jack Pierson	77
39	1997	Ally McBeal	Mark Harrison	66
40	1997	The Visitor	Army General	60
41	1998	From the Earth to the Moon	Thomas Paine	82
42	1998	Fantasy Island	Mr. Gable	75
43	1999	Family Law	Carlisle Tucker	82
44	1999	The West Wing	John LaSalle	82
45	1999	Angel	Holland Manners	79
46	2000	Malcolm in the Middle	Police Commissioner	85
47	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Dr. Mercer	76
48	2001	Wolf Lake	Arthur Van Halen	77
49	2002	CSI: Miami	Scott Sommer	77
50	2002	Without a Trace	Congressman Whitehurst	73
51	2003	Miracles		80
52	2003	NCIS	Walter Carmichael	76
53	2003	Married to the Kellys	Bill Kelly	90
54	2004	CSI: NY	Dr. Richards	74
55	2004	Lost	Bernard Nadler	79
56	2005	Medium	Eliot Peterson	75
57	2005	Grey's Anatomy	Michael Whitman	82
58	2005	Bones	Hugo Sanderson	82
59	2008	Leverage	Henry Retzing	76
60	2009	Castle	Principal Duncan	80
61	2009	The Forgotten	Train Driver	60
62	2009	NCIS: Los Angeles	Senator Dick Osborne	75
63	2010	Justified	Lee Paxton	79
64	2010	Hawaii Five-0	Owen Sutherland	77
65	2011	Grimm	Old Man	83
66	2011	Grimm	Rolek Porter	83
67	2012	Scandal	Melvin Feen	72
68	2012	Men At Work	James Wilson	67
69	2014	Chasing Life	Gerald Rayburn	74
70	2014	How to Get Away with Murder	Thomas Fitzgerald	78
71	2016	Damien	Professor Igor Reneus	63
72	2016	This Is Us	Judge Walter Crowder	82
73	2018	Station 19	Elliott	82
74	2018	A Million Little Things	Mr. Dennings	74
75	2023	Painkiller	Raymond Sackler	71
76	2024	Matlock	Edwin Kingston	78