Michael J. Anderson

Anderson at CarneyCon 2006

Michael John Anderson (born October 31, 1953 in Denver , Colorado ) is an American actor , best known for his role as "Man from Another Place" in David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks , the epilogue and prologue to the series, Twin Peaks - The film , and Samson from the HBO series Carnivàle . He has a genetic bone disease and was unable to walk in the first 20 years of his life.

Professional career

Anderson starred in four Twin Peaks episodes. The man from another location wears a red suit and speaks in an unusual way. Anderson used phonetic backward speaking as a secret language with his junior high school friends and then played the character in Twin Peaks who uses the same method of speaking. He first appeared in Special Agent Dale Cooper's cryptic dream inside a red room about the murder of Laura Palmer. Anderson's character also starred in the subsequent Twin Peaks film . His character was much more vicious there than in the series.

Anderson impersonated a normal-sized man in Lynch's Mulholland Drive - Street of Darkness , which was made possible through the use of a prosthesis . From 2003 to 2005 Anderson was represented in the television series Carnivàle .

Filmography

TV Shows

• 1988, 1990: Monsters - Until the Blood Freezes ( Monsters , TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1990–1991: Twin Peaks (TV series, 4 episodes)
• 1992: Picket Fences - Tatort Gartenzaun ( Picket Fences , TV series, episode 1x03)
• 1995: The X-Files - The Scary Cases of the FBI ( The X-Files , TV series, episode 2x20 The Circus )
• 1993: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV series, episode 1x15 Power of Imagination )
• 1998: Maggie (TV series, episode 1x09)
• 1998: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ( Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show , TV Show, episode 2x10)
• 1999: The Phantom Eye (TV series)
• 1999: Port Charles (TV series, 15 episodes)
• 2001: Black Scorpion (TV series, episode 1x08)
• 2003–2005: Carnivàle (TV series, 24 episodes)
• 2006: Charmed ( Charmed , TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2010: Cold Case - No victim is ever forgotten ( Cold Case , TV series, episode 7x14 Metamorphosis )
• 2011: Adventure Time - Adventure Time with Finn and Jake ( Adventure Time , TV series, episode 2x14, speaking role)
• 2013: Mission Scooby-Doo ( Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated , TV series, 2 episodes, speaking role)

Movies

• 1983: Buddies - Two tough guys (Buddies)
• 1985: Yoko Ono: Hell in Paradise (short film)
• 1986: The Great Land of Small
• 1986: Silent but Deadly
• 1988: Tattoo Vampires
• 1989: Suffering Bastards
• 1989: No Such Thing As Gravity (short film)
• 1990: Whatever Happened to Mason Reese (short film)
• 1990: Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (TV movie)
• 1991: Mannequin 2 - The magic continues (Mannequin Two: On the Move)
• 1992: In the Soup - Alles Kino (In the Soup)
• 1992: Twin Peaks : Fire Walk with Me
• 1992: Fool's Fire (TV movie)
• 1993: Night Trap - On the Trail of Evil (Night Trap)
• 1994: Ava's Magical Adventure
• 1994: Murder Too Sweet
• 1995: Caged Hearts
• 1996: Street Gun
• 1997: The warriors of the Tao universe (Warriors of Virtue)
• 1998: Club Vampires
• 1999: Mulholland Dr. (TV movie)
• 1999: minimum weight
• 2000: This Is How the World Ends (TV movie)
• 2001: Mulholland Drive - Street of Darkness (Mulholland Drive)
• 2001: Snow White ( Snow White: The Fairest of Them All , Movie made for TV)
• 2003: Sticky Fingers (short film)
• 2003: Tiptoes
• 2004: Big Time (short film)
• 2012: Vérité: 'Fire Walk with Me' (short film)
• 2014: Twin Peaks : The Missing Pieces

Web links

Commons : Michael J. Anderson  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Michael J. Anderson at the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography for Michael J. Anderson. IMDb, accessed July 14, 2010 . 
2. ^ Ev: Audio Reversal In Popular Culture. Triplo.com, archived from the original on June 12, 2008 ; accessed on July 14, 2010 (English).