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
Movies
- The Puppet Masters
1994
- The Independent
2000
- Dark Angel
1990
- Water for Elephants
2011
- The Pentagon Wars
1998
- Devil's Due
2014
- Breaking the Girls
2013
- Folle d'elle
1998
- Sonic Impact
2000
- The Swap
1979
- Where the Crawdads Sing
2022
- Dirty Habit
2006
- NetForce
1999
- Touched
2005
- Perfect Game
2000
- A Place to Be Loved
1993
- Sex, Censorship and the...
1996
- Forrest Gump
1994
- The Lift
2024
- Song of Back and Neck
2018
- Joe Dancer III: The Big...
1983
- Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016
- Secret Santa
2003
- La Bamba
1987
- Permanent Midnight
1998
- 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go B...
2012
- Do You Take This Man
2017
- Slackers
2002
- Policewoman Centerfold
1983
- The Man Next Door
1996
- Movers & Shakers
1985
- Maybe Someday
2017
- Memoirs of an Invisible...
1992
- The Tragedy of King Lear
1982
- Critters 2
1988
- The Last Hand
1997
- The Sleepwalker Killing
1997
TV Shows
- Growing Pains
1985
- WKRP in Cincinnati
1978
- Perfect Strangers
1986
- CSI: Miami
2002
- Miracles
2003
- Everybody Loves Raymond
1996
- Angel
1999
- CSI: NY
2004
- CSI: Crime Scene Invest...
2000
- The X-Files
1993
- Millennium
1996
- Lost
2004
- Chicago Hope
1994
- Diagnosis: Murder
1993
- Married to the Kellys
2003
- The Charmings
1987
- Medium
2005
- Family Law
1999
- E/R
1984
- Live Shot
1995
- The Visitor
1997
- Mama Malone
1984
- Tales from the Darkside
1984
- Hawaii Five-0
2010
- The Stockard Channing S...
1980
- Justified
2010
- Men At Work
2012
- Diagnosis: Murder
1993
- Castle
2009
- Hunter
1984
- Chasing Life
2014
- From the Earth to the M...
1998
- WKRP in Cincinnati
1978
- WKRP in Cincinnati
1978
- WKRP in Cincinnati
1978
- Grey's Anatomy
2005
- Wolf Lake
2001
- Painkiller
2023
- Friends
1994
- Damien
2016
- Nowhere Man
1995
- Newhart
1982
- Star Trek: The Next Gen...
1987
- The West Wing
1999
- This Is Us
2016
- Scandal
2012
- The Cape
1996
- Grimm
2011
- Grimm
2011
- 21 Jump Street
1987
- The Adventures of Brisc...
1993
- NCIS
2003
- Station 19
2018
- T. J. Hooker
1982
- Melrose Place
1992
- L.A. Law
1986
- A Million Little Things
2018
- Bones
2005
- Leverage
2008
- Fantasy Island
1998
- Without a Trace
2002
- In the Heat of the Night
1988
- The Golden Girls
1985
- ER
1994
- Murder, She Wrote
1984
- Murder, She Wrote
1984
- Murder, She Wrote
1984
- Murder, She Wrote
1984
- Boston Common
1996
- Malcolm in the Middle
2000
- Ally McBeal
1997
- The Forgotten
2009
- Matlock
2024
- How to Get Away with Mu...
2014
- NCIS: Los Angeles
2009
- The Stand
1994
- Two Guys and a Girl
1998
- Blue Thunder
1984
- Magnum, P.I.
1980
- Harry's Law
2011