James Anderson (actor, 1921)
James Anderson (born July 13, 1921 in Wetumpka , Alabama , † September 14, 1969 in Billings , Montana ) was an American actor.
Life
Born in Alabama, James Anderson followed his older sister Mary Anderson (1918-2014) into the acting business. In 1941 he made his film debut in the war drama Sergeant York with Gary Cooper in the lead role, directed by Howard Hawks . Several small film roles for Anderson followed by 1942, before he interrupted his beginning Hollywood career and fought in World War II. He did not return to Hollywood until the late 1940s, where he initially only received small roles. In the 1950s, Anderson made a name for himself as an actor in B-Westerns, where he mostly played rough gunslingers or dark bandits. Many western TV series such as Smoking Colts , At the Foot of the Blue Mountains , A Thousand Miles of Dust and Bonanza regularly cast Anderson according to this type of role as a villain. The character actor practically never got beyond supporting roles, only in some B-films like The Last Five (1951), where he played one of five survivors of a nuclear attack, he was able to get bigger roles.
Anderson made his most famous appearance today in the 1962 film classic Who disturbs the nightingale, directed by Robert Mulligan , based on the novel by Harper Lee . Here he embodied the backwoods and racist Bob Ewell, who is bringing an overtly innocent African American to court. James Anderson died of a heart attack in 1969 at the age of 48, and his last two films were not released until after his death. In total, the actor played in around 145 film and television productions between 1941 and 1970. He was buried in the Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood .
Filmography (selection)
- 1941: Sergeant York
- 1941: Dive Bomber
- 1942: Pirates in the Caribbean Sea (Reap the Wild Wind)
- 1949: The Great Sinner
- 1951: Along the Great Divide
- 1951: The Last Five (Five)
- 1952: Has anyone seen my bride? (Has Anybody Seen My Gal)
- 1952: Wildes Blut (Ruby Gentry)
- 1952: The Star
- 1952: Shots in New Mexico (The Duel at Silver Creek)
- 1953: The Beast of the Wild (Arrowhead)
- 1953: Donovan's Brain (Donovan's Brain)
- 1953–1955: The Cisco Kid (TV series, five episodes)
- 1954: Checkmate (Pushover)
- 1954: Hell 36 (Private Hell 36)
- 1954: Terror in Block 11 (Riot in Cell Block 11)
- 1954–1955: Police report (TV series, four episodes)
- 1955: Rauhe Gesellen (The Violent Men)
- 1955: Seven Angry Men
- 1955–1968: Smoking Colts ( Gunsmoke , TV series, nine episodes)
- 1957–1960: Adventures in the Wild West ( Zane Gray Theater , TV series, four episodes)
- 1957-1960: Perry Mason (TV series, three episodes)
- 1957: Alluring Temptation (Friendly Persuasion)
- 1957: The Big Land
- 1958: I Married a Monster from Outer Space
- 1958: The Thing That Couldn't Die
- 1959–1963: At the foot of the blue mountains ( Laramie , TV series, ten episodes)
- 1959–1964: A Thousand Miles of Dust ( Rawhide , TV series, four episodes)
- 1960–1963: Bonanza (TV series, three episodes)
- 1962: Who disturbs the nightingale (To Kill a Mockingbird)
- 1962: The Language of Violence (Pressure Point)
- 1964/1966: Dr. Kildare (TV series, two episodes)
- 1965/1966: Outlawed ( Branded , TV series, two episodes)
- 1966: A Man Is Chased (The Chase)
- 1969: Woody the unlucky fellow (Take the Money and Run)
- 1970: The final bill (The Ballard of Cable Hogue)
- 1970: Little Big Man
Web links
- James Anderson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Anderson in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 16, 2017.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Anderson, James |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1921 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wetumpka , Alabama |
DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1969 |
Place of death | Billings , Montana |