
Sam Anderson
Acting
Born 1947-04-02 · 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.
Known for

Perfect Strangers
1986 · TV

Lost
2004 · TV

Matlock
2024 · TV

ER
1994 · TV

Married to the Kellys
2003 · TV

Grey's Anatomy
2005 · TV

Mama Malone
1984 · TV

Live Shot
1995 · TV

Justified
2010 · TV

NCIS
2003 · TV

Angel
1999 · TV

Bones
2005 · TV

Picket Fences
1992 · TV

Boston Common
1996 · TV

Painkiller
2023 · TV

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · TV

Friends
1994 · TV

L.A. Law
1986 · TV

CSI: Miami
2002 · TV

Castle
2009 · TV

Hawaii Five-0
2010 · TV

Grimm
2011 · TV

The X-Files
1993 · TV

Melrose Place
1992 · TV

The Stand
1994 · TV

Malcolm in the Middle
2000 · TV

NCIS: Los Angeles
2009 · TV

The West Wing
1999 · TV

Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987 · TV

A Million Little Things
2018 · TV

Murder, She Wrote
1984 · TV

From the Earth to the Moon
1998 · TV

CSI: NY
2004 · TV

Without a Trace
2002 · TV

Boston Legal
2004 · TV

Magnum, P.I.
1980 · TV

Medium
2005 · TV

Chasing Life
2014 · TV

This Is Us
2016 · TV

Diagnosis: Murder
1993 · TV

Scandal
2012 · TV

Chicago Hope
1994 · TV

Station 19
2018 · TV

How to Get Away with Murder
2014 · TV

Everybody Loves Raymond
1996 · TV

21 Jump Street
1987 · TV

The Golden Girls
1985 · TV

Leverage
2008 · TV

Hunter
1984 · TV

St. Elsewhere
1982 · TV

T. J. Hooker
1982 · TV

Millennium
1996 · TV

Profiler
1996 · TV

Newhart
1982 · TV

Family Law
1999 · TV

Tales from the Darkside
1984 · TV

In the Heat of the Night
1988 · TV

Harry's Law
2011 · TV

WKRP in Cincinnati
1978 · TV

Ally McBeal
1997 · TV