
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.
Known For
Forrest Gump
Principal Hancock
Where the Crawdads Sing
Tate (mid-70s)
Water for Elephants
Mr. Hyde
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Mr. Browning
La Bamba
Mr. Ludwig
Critters 2
Mr. Morgan
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Chairman of the House Committee
Painkiller
Raymond Sackler
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Filmography
Acting (116)
Movies (37)
The Lift
2024
Where the Crawdads Sing
2022as Tate (mid-70s)
Song of Back and Neck
2018as Jarred Foxen
Do You Take This Man
2017as Steven
Maybe Someday
2017as Douglas Donnelly
Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016as Mr. Browning
Devil's Due
2014as Father Thomas
Breaking the Girls
2013as Professor Nolan
3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom
2012as Chris
Water for Elephants
2011as Mr. Hyde
Dirty Habit
2006as Bishop
Touched
2005as Dr. Reynolds
Secret Santa
2003as Mr. Gibson
Slackers
2002as Charles Patton
The Independent
2000as Ed
Sonic Impact
2000as Alex Holmes
Perfect Game
2000as Steven
NetForce
1999as Fox
Permanent Midnight
1998as Dr. Olson
The Pentagon Wars
1998as Congressman #2
What I Did for Love
1998as Richard
The Last Hand
1997as Jimmy Walsh
The Sleepwalker Killing
1997as Roth Lane
The Man Next Door
1996as Dwight Cooley
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
1996as Quote Reader
Forrest Gump
1994as Principal Hancock
The Puppet Masters
1994as Culbertson
A Place to Be Loved
1993as Judge Thomas S. Kirk
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1992as Chairman of the House Committee
Dark Angel
1990as Warren
Critters 2
1988as Mr. Morgan
La Bamba
1987as Mr. Ludwig
Movers & Shakers
1985as Ray Berg
Policewoman Centerfold
1983as Druggist
Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade
1983as Paul Iberville
The Tragedy of King Lear
1982as Duke of Albany
The Swap
1979as Paul
Television (79)
Matlock
2024as Edwin Kingston
Matlock
2024as Edwin Kingston
Painkiller
2023as Raymond Sackler
Station 19
2018as Elliott
A Million Little Things
2018as Mr. Dennings
This Is Us
2016as Judge Walter Crowder
Damien
2016as Professor Igor Reneus
How to Get Away with Murder
2014as Thomas Fitzgerald
Chasing Life
2014as Gerald Rayburn
Scandal
2012as Melvin Feen
Men at Work
2012as James Wilson
Grimm
2011as Old Man
Harry's Law
2011as Judge William Rothman
Hawaii Five-0
2010as Owen Sutherland
Justified
2010as Lee Paxton
Castle
2009as Principal Duncan
NCIS: Los Angeles
2009as Senator Dick Osborne
The Forgotten
2009as Train Driver
Leverage
2008as Henry Retzing
Bones
2005as Hugo Sanderson
Grey's Anatomy
2005as Michael Whitman
Medium
2005as Eliot Peterson
Lost
2004as Bernard Nadler
CSI: NY
2004as Dr. Richards
Boston Legal
2004as Walter Fife
NCIS
2003as Walter Carmichael
Miracles
2003as Cinda's Father
Married to the Kellys
2003as Bill Kelly
Without a Trace
2002as Congressman Whitehurst
CSI: Miami
2002as Scott Sommer
Wolf Lake
2001as Arthur Van Halen
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000as Dr. Mercer
Malcolm in the Middle
2000as Police Commissioner
The West Wing
1999as John LaSalle
Angel
1999as Holland Manners
Family Law
1999as Carlisle Tucker
Two Guys and a Girl
1998as Dr. Harvey
From the Earth to the Moon
1998as Thomas Paine
Fantasy Island
1998as Mr. Gable
Ally McBeal
1997as Mark Harrison
The Visitor
1997as Army General
Everybody Loves Raymond
1996as Special Agent Thomas Garfield
Millennium
1996as Agent Jack Pierson
Profiler
1996as Ken Harker
Boston Common
1996as Wesley Butterfield
The Cape
1996as Kevin Davis, CAPCOM
Nowhere Man
1995as The Man
Live Shot
1995as Marvin Seaborne
Friends
1994as Dr. Harad
ER
1994as Jack Kayson
Chicago Hope
1994as Howard Sherwood
The Stand
1994as Whitney Horgan
The X-Files
1993as Leamus
Diagnosis: Murder
1993as Ernie Pitt
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
1993as Simon Wolfe
Melrose Place
1992as Agent Hill
Picket Fences
1992as FBI Agent Donald Morrell
Alien Nation
1989as Thomas Edison
In the Heat of the Night
1988as Drew Ward
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987as Assistant Manager
21 Jump Street
1987as Dan Finger
The Charmings
1987
L.A. Law
1986as D.A. Bill Graphia
Perfect Strangers
1986as Sam Gorpley
The Golden Girls
1985as Meyer
Growing Pains
1985as Principal Willis Dewitt
Murder, She Wrote
1984as Ethan Stevens
Tales from the Darkside
1984as Dr. Synapsis
Hunter
1984as Vinny Cochran
E/R
1984
Blue Thunder
1984as Benjamin Kelty
Mama Malone
1984as Stanley
Hardcastle and McCormick
1983as Teddy Peters
St. Elsewhere
1982as Mr. McGrath
T. J. Hooker
1982as Leo Santee
Newhart
1982
Magnum, P.I.
1980as Ray Jones / John Doe
The Stockard Channing Show
1980
WKRP in Cincinnati
1978as Mason Nobel
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