Biography

A familiar face to movie audiences in the 1950s, James Anderson's rugged and somewhat sinister good looks made him a natural for westerns, and he appeared in many of them over the years, often as a gunman or hired killer but occasionally as a storekeeper or grizzled frontier scout. He turned in a very good performance as one of the survivors of a nuclear attack in Five (1951) and another as a redneck farmer in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), but it's for his western roles in films and on TV that Anderson is best known.
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Died before the release of his final two films, Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) and the Dustin Hoffman epic Little Big Man (1970).

Younger brother of Mary Anderson.

Brother-in-law of Leon Shamroy.