Michael Anderson, Jr.

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Michael Joseph Anderson, Jr. (born August 6, 1943 in Hillingdon , Middlesex ) is a British actor with over 75 roles in film and television. He was best known as a young actor with cinema productions from the 1960s such as The Adventures of Captain Grant , The Woman of His Heart , The Four Sons of Katie Elder , The Greatest Story of All Time or Sierra Charriba .

life and career

His father Michael Anderson first worked as an actor himself in the early 1940s, before becoming a production assistant and later a successful Oscar-nominated director. His grandparents and great-great-aunties were celebrated actors. Son Michael Anderson Jr. followed the family tradition and the early traces of his father in the film business and became an actor himself . Anderson trained in acting and ballet at the Arts Educational School .

He got his first roles in English television series and feature films such as the 1956 British television series The Count of Monte Cristo . In 1958 he made his feature film debut in David MacDonald's adventure film The Avenger in the Purple Coat . He starred in J. Lee Thompson's crime film Tiger-Bay and then in Fred Zinnemann's The Endless Horizon . After the film Play it Cool , he left England in 1962 to pursue a career in Hollywood. He quickly gained a foothold with the Jules Verne film The Adventures of Captain Grant by director Robert Stevenson . After he had only worked in American television series for two more years, several career highlights followed in the years 1964 to 1967.

In 1964, Delbert Mann engaged him as a young lover for his comedy The Woman of His Heart . This was followed by important supporting roles in major Hollywood productions such as in George Stevens' Bible epic The Greatest Story of All Time or in Henry Hathaway's western classic The Four Sons of Katie Elder alongside John Wayne , Dean Martin and Earl Holliman . He was then seen in Arnold Lavens Cavalry West The Glorious Horsemen and in the same year he played in Sam Peckinpah's soldier film Sierra Charriba alongside Charlton Heston , Richard Harris , Jim Hutton and James Coburn .

From 1966 to 1967 he then played the male lead of Clayt Monroe in 26 episodes in the family saga The Monroes .

He then starred in numerous television films and episodes of television series in the 1970s and 1980s, but was only rarely able to match the level and success of the 1960s. He played the two most appealing roles in the films of his father Michael Anderson , who gave him minor parts in the science fiction classics Escape to the 23rd Century and The March Chronicles . After that, Michael Anderson Jr. almost invariably only played roles in the average television production sector. With a small supporting role in the television film Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families , he let his career end in 1998 at the age of 55.

Michael Anderson Jr. is the stepson of actress Adrienne Ellis and stepbrother of actress Laurie Holden . His brother is the film producer David Anderson.

reception

"German translation of Henry Hathaway's quote about Michael Anderson Jr: 'Do you see this child?' … - You said of Michael Anderson, Jr., 'What a kid!' 'He doesn't play, it comes straight from the heart,' said Henry Hathaway ".

Original English quote: 'You see that Kid?', They said of Michael Anderson Jr., 'What a kid.' 'He don't act, it's right from the heart,' said Henry Hathaway . "
- Bob Callahan : The Big book of American Irish culture

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

  • 1970: The House That Would Not Die
  • 1973: Help, I have two husbands (Coffee, Tea or Me?)
  • 1980: The Martian Chronicles (TV miniseries)
  • 1981: The Million Dollar Face
  • 1983: A dream man on the front page (Making of a Male Model)
  • 1995: Rent-a-Kid - Family on Trial (Undue Influence)
  • 1996: Ruthlessly Seduced - The Murderer's Innocence (Undue Influence)
  • 1997: Elvis and the President (Elvis Meets Nixon)

literature

Web links

Commons : Michael Anderson, Jr.  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Anderson Jr. in: We Boys Together: Teenagers in Love Before Girl-Craziness , by Jeffery P. Dennis, Vanderbilt University Press, 2007, p. 236
  2. ↑ Michael Anderson Jr. in: The Film Daily , Volume 126, Wid's Films and Film Folk Incorporated, 1965
  3. ↑ Michael Anderson Jr. in: Pete Duel: A Biography , by Paul Green - 2008, p. 149
  4. ↑ Michael Anderson Jr. in: From Abba to Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia of the Late 20th Century , 2005, p. 286
  5. ↑ Michael Anderson Jr. in: The Big book of American Irish culture , by Bob Callahan, Penguin Books, 1987, p. 110
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Michael Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Michael Joseph Jr. (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Hillingdon , Middlesex , England