Spoiler : Lansing, Robert (Robert Howell Brown) Born in San Diego, California 6/5/1929; died 10/23/1994 of cancer at the Calgary Hospice in the Bronx, New York. In a 1959 TV Radio Mirror article, Lansing said he was born in Arkansas. Married and divorced to Emily McLaugh- lin (1956-?). On Broadway before his screen debut in 4-D Man (1959). Detective Steve Carella on 87th Precinct for NBC-TV (1961-1962). General Frank Savage on Twelve O'Clock High for ABC-TV (1964-1967). Peter Murphy and Mark Wainwright on The Man Who Never Was for ABC-TV (1966-1967). Lieutenant Jack Curtis on Automan for ABC-TV (1983-1984). Control on The Equalizer for CBS-TV (1985-89). Captain Paul Blaisdell on the syndicated television series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993-1994).