American actor (1928–1994) who played Gary Seven, the alien-trained human agent protecting twentieth-century Earth, in the Original Series episode Assignment: Earth.
Robert Lansing was an American actor, born in 1928, known on television as Brigadier General Frank Savage in Twelve O'Clock High and for leading roles in 87th Precinct and The Man Who Never Was.
In the second-season finale Assignment: Earth he played Gary Seven, intercepted by the Enterprise's transporter while the ship is observing Earth in 1968. Seven, raised by unseen aliens to keep humanity from destroying itself, escapes with his cat Isis and sabotages an orbital weapons launch with the unplanned help of his secretary Roberta Lincoln, played by Teri Garr.
The episode was written as a pilot for a proposed series starring Lansing, which was not commissioned. He died in 1994.