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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Willie Aames to Steven Anderson
Michael Anderson Biography (1920-)
Full name, Michael Joseph Anderson; born January 30, 1920, in London, England; son of John Lawrence (an actor) and Beatrice Gwendoline (maiden name, Topping) Anderson; married second wife, Adrianne Ellis, 1977; children: (first marriage) David, Michael Jr., Peter, Jan. Career: Director, producer, actor, screenwriter, composer, and unit manager. Military: Royal Signal Corps, 48th Infantry Division, 1942-46. Member: Directors Guild of America. Awards, Honors: Academy Award nomination, best director, 1956, for Around the World in Eighty Days.
Addresses: Contact: Paul Buford, 64 Springfield Way, Thornhill, Ontario L4J 5E4 Canada.
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Director, Producer, Actor, Screenwriter, Composer, Unit Manager
- Birth Details
- January 30, 1920
- London, England
Famous Works
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CREDITS
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Film Director, Except Where Indicated
- Assistant director, Pygmalion, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1938
- Assistant director, French Without Tears, Paramount, 1939
- Assistant director, Freedom Radio (also known as A Voice in theNight), 1941
- Unit manager, In Which We Serve, British Lion, 1942
- Unit manager, School for Secrets (also known as Secret Flight), General Film Distributors, 1946
- Assistant director, Vice Versa, General Film Distributors, 1948
- Assistant director, One Night With You, 1948
- (With Peter Ustinov), Private Angelo, Associated British/Pathe, 1949
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Waterfront Women (also known as Waterfront), General Film Distributors, 1950
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Hell Is Sold Out, Eros, 1951
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Night Was Our Friend, Monarch, 1951
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Dial 17 (short), 1952
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The House of the Arrow, Associated British/Pathe, 1953
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Will Any Gentleman?, Stratford, 1953
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The Dam Busters, Warner Brothers, 1954
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Around the World in Eighty Days, United Artists, 1956
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1984, Columbia, 1956
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Battle Hell (also known as Yangtse Incidents,
Escape ofthe Amethyst, and Their Greatest Glory), Herbert Wilcox, 1957
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Chase a Crooked Shadow, Warner Brothers, 1957
- And producer, Shake Hands with the Devil, United Artists, 1959
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959
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All the Fine Young Cannibals, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1960
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The Naked Edge, United Artists, 1961
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Flight from Ashiya (also known as Ashiya Kara No Hiko), United Artists, 1964
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Wild and Wonderful,Universal, 1964
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Operation Crossbow (also known as Operazione Crossbow, The Great Spy Mission, and Codename: Operation Crossbow), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1965
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The Quiller Memorandum, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966
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The Shoes of the Fisherman, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1968
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Pope Joan (also known as The Devil's Imposter), Columbia, 1972
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Conduct Unbecoming, Allied Artists, 1975
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Doc Savage ... The Man of Bronze, Warner Brothers, 1975
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Logan's Run, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1976
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Orca (also known as Orca--The Killer Whale and The Killer Whale), Paramount, 1977
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Dominique (also known as Avenging Spirit and Dominique is Dead), Subotsky, 1978
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Bells (also known as Murder By Phone and The Calling), New World, 1981
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Second Time Lucky, United International, 1984
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Separate Vacations, RSL, 1986
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La Boutique de l'orfevre (also known as The Goldsmith's Shop, The Jeweler's Shop, and La bottega dell'orefice), Alliance Releasing/Produzioni Atlas Consorziate, 1988
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Millennium, Twentieth Century-Fox/Rank Film Distributors, 1989
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Summer of the Monkeys, Disney, 1998
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The New Adventures of Pinocchio, 1999
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Television Director
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Miniseries
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The Martian Chronicles, NBC, 1980
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Young Catherine, TNT, 1991
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Movies
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Sword of Gideon, HBO, 1986
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The Sea Wolf, TNT, 1993
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Rugged Gold, syndicated, 1994
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Captains Courageous, Family Channel, 1996
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1997
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WRITINGS
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Screenplays
- (With Peter Ustinov) Private Angelo, Associated British/Pathe, 1949
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Film Scores
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Twelve to the Moon, Columbia, 1960
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