Howard A. Anderson

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Howard A. Anderson (born March 31, 1920 in Los Angeles , California , United States - † September 27, 2015 in Ventura , California) was a special effects technician in film and television.

Life

Howard A. Anderson learned the craft from scratch from his father of the same name (1890-1979), who had founded a company that produced special effects for classic films such as White Zombie (1932) and The Man with the Iron Mask in the 1930s (1939) had delivered. After the Second World War, Anderson Junior began working as a cameraman and special effects photographer, and since 1950 he has been an independent creator of cinematic special effects.

Anderson's field of work was horror ( Curucu, Beast of the Amazon ) and science fiction films ( The Time Machine ), historical adventure stories ( Taras Bulba ) as well as war dramas ( Tobruk ). Howard A. Anderson and his British colleague Albert Whitlock received an Oscar nomination for his performance on the latter strip . At this time he was busy with the extensive work on the cult sci-fi series Raumschiff Enterprise , for which he oversaw a total of 80 episodes with special effects between 1966 and 1969.

In 1974 Howard Anderson ended his active career and passed the "relay stick" on to his son of the same name, Howard A. Anderson III. Anderson Jr. received the Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards celebration in 2007. Three years earlier he had already received the President's Award from the American Society of Cinematographers .

Films (selection)

Visual or special effects only:

  • 1950: Amazons of the Primeval Forest ( Prehistoric Women )
  • 1951: The Man With My Face
  • 1951: Slaughter Trail
  • 1953: Phantom From Space
  • 1956: In the Dark of the Night ( Nightmare )
  • 1956: Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
  • 1957: Invasion of the Saucer Men
  • 1959: The Time Machine ( The Time Machine )
  • 1960: The Ruler of Cornwall ( Jack the Giant Killer )
  • 1961: Taras Bulba
  • 1966: Tobruk
  • 1966–69: Spaceship Enterprise (Star Trek, TV series)
  • 1967: The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
  • 1971: Killer satellites ( Earth II ) (TV movie)
  • 1973: Bat People ( Bat People )

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personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Howard A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American special effects technician
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California, United States
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2015
Place of death Ventura , California, United States