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Michael Anderson is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Assistant Director British born on 30 january 1920 at London (United-kingdom)
Michael Joseph Anderson, Sr. (born 30 January 1920) is an English film director, best known for directing The Dam Busters (1955), Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and Logan's Run (1976).
Après avoir servi pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il entama une carrière dans le cinéma. Il devint réalisateur en 1949, et commença à attirer l'attention grâce au film de guerre Les Briseurs de barrages (The Dam Busters, 1954), un film remarquable par l'emploi judicieux qui y est fait d'effets spéciaux limités, et qui est souvent cité comme source d'inspiration de la scène finale du premier épisode réalisé de Star Wars. Il dirigea ensuite une adaptation éponyme (1956) de 1984, le roman de George Orwell, puis Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days, 1956), et se fixa à Hollywood, où il donna au genre science-fiction des œuvres comme Doc Savage arrive (Doc Savage : The Man of Bronze, 1975) et L'Âge de cristal (Logan's Run, 1976). L'Âge de cristal connut un énorme succès en nombre d'entrées, amassant 50 millions de dollars de recettes dans le monde, donnant un coup de fouet aux ventes de son distributeur, Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; le film jouit aujourd'hui du statut de film culte.
Michael Anderson réalisa également Orca. Anderson se consacra par la suite surtout à des feuilletons télévisés, parmi lesquels Les Chroniques martiennes et Sword of Gideon. En 1988, il mit en scène une adaptation d'une pièce écrite par le futur pape Jean-Paul II, La Boutique de l'orfèvre (La bottega dell'orefice, 1989). Septuagénaire, Anderson continua à tourner de façon régulière. Parmi ses autres réalisations, on peut citer : Les Jeunes Loups (All the Fine Young Cannibals, 1960), Les Trois Soldats de l'aventure (Flight from Ashiya, 1963), Le Secret du rapport Quiller (The Quiller Memorandum, 1966), Commando sur le Yang-Tsé (Yangtse Incident : The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst, 1956) et une adaptation de Conduct Unbecoming (1975).
Il fut nommé pour un Oscar et un Golden Globe pour la réalisation du Tour du monde en 80 jours.
Vie privée
Michael Anderson parle aussi bien l'anglais que le français, l'italien, et l'allemand, et il s'est installé au Canada.
Il a été marié trois fois : avec Betty Jordan (1939) avec qui il a eu cinq enfants, Vera Carlisle (1969), avec laquelle il a eu un enfant et Adrienne Ellis (1977 jusqu'à sa mort), qui était déjà mère de deux enfants.
Famille
L'un de ses fils, Michael Anderson, Jr., est acteur et fait une apparition dans L'Âge de cristal ; un autre, David Anderson, est producteur de cinéma. Sa belle-fille est l'actrice Laurie Holden (X-Files, Silent Hill, The Mist, The Walking Dead) qui a tourné sous sa direction dans la mini-série télévisée Chroniques martiennes, ainsi que dans le téléfilm Intrigues impériales, qui réunissait également Julia Ormond et Vanessa Redgrave.
(1996)
(Second Second Assistant Director)
(1956)
(Director)
(1977)
(Director)
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Birth name Michael Joseph Anderson
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 30 january 1920 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 25 april 2018 (at 98 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 30 january 1920 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 25 april 2018 (at 98 years)
Biography
Michael Anderson est né dans une famille de gens de théâtre. Ses parents, Lawrence et Beatrice Anderson, étaient acteurs tous les deux. Sa grand-tante s'appelait Mary Anderson ; elle vivait à Louisville dans le Kentucky et devint l'une des premières actrices shakespearienne des États-Unis. Un théâtre de Louisville porte son nom.Après avoir servi pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il entama une carrière dans le cinéma. Il devint réalisateur en 1949, et commença à attirer l'attention grâce au film de guerre Les Briseurs de barrages (The Dam Busters, 1954), un film remarquable par l'emploi judicieux qui y est fait d'effets spéciaux limités, et qui est souvent cité comme source d'inspiration de la scène finale du premier épisode réalisé de Star Wars. Il dirigea ensuite une adaptation éponyme (1956) de 1984, le roman de George Orwell, puis Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days, 1956), et se fixa à Hollywood, où il donna au genre science-fiction des œuvres comme Doc Savage arrive (Doc Savage : The Man of Bronze, 1975) et L'Âge de cristal (Logan's Run, 1976). L'Âge de cristal connut un énorme succès en nombre d'entrées, amassant 50 millions de dollars de recettes dans le monde, donnant un coup de fouet aux ventes de son distributeur, Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; le film jouit aujourd'hui du statut de film culte.
Michael Anderson réalisa également Orca. Anderson se consacra par la suite surtout à des feuilletons télévisés, parmi lesquels Les Chroniques martiennes et Sword of Gideon. En 1988, il mit en scène une adaptation d'une pièce écrite par le futur pape Jean-Paul II, La Boutique de l'orfèvre (La bottega dell'orefice, 1989). Septuagénaire, Anderson continua à tourner de façon régulière. Parmi ses autres réalisations, on peut citer : Les Jeunes Loups (All the Fine Young Cannibals, 1960), Les Trois Soldats de l'aventure (Flight from Ashiya, 1963), Le Secret du rapport Quiller (The Quiller Memorandum, 1966), Commando sur le Yang-Tsé (Yangtse Incident : The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst, 1956) et une adaptation de Conduct Unbecoming (1975).
Il fut nommé pour un Oscar et un Golden Globe pour la réalisation du Tour du monde en 80 jours.
Vie privée
Michael Anderson parle aussi bien l'anglais que le français, l'italien, et l'allemand, et il s'est installé au Canada.
Il a été marié trois fois : avec Betty Jordan (1939) avec qui il a eu cinq enfants, Vera Carlisle (1969), avec laquelle il a eu un enfant et Adrienne Ellis (1977 jusqu'à sa mort), qui était déjà mère de deux enfants.
Famille
L'un de ses fils, Michael Anderson, Jr., est acteur et fait une apparition dans L'Âge de cristal ; un autre, David Anderson, est producteur de cinéma. Sa belle-fille est l'actrice Laurie Holden (X-Files, Silent Hill, The Mist, The Walking Dead) qui a tourné sous sa direction dans la mini-série télévisée Chroniques martiennes, ainsi que dans le téléfilm Intrigues impériales, qui réunissait également Julia Ormond et Vanessa Redgrave.
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In Which We Serve (1942)
, 1h55Directed by David Lean, Noël Coward
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors John Mills, Michael Wilding, Bernard Miles, Noël Coward, Celia Johnson, Philip Friend
Roles Albert Fosdick
Rating71%
The film opens with the narration: "This is the story of a ship" and the images of shipbuilding in a British dockyard. The action then moves forward in time showing the ship, HMS Torrin, engaging German transports in a night-time engagement during the Battle of Crete in 1941. However, when dawn breaks, the destroyer comes under aerial attack from German bombers.
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, 1h34Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Themes Films about children, Jeu, Films about magic and magicians, Adaptations de Pinocchio, Films about toys
Actors Martin Landau, Udo Kier, Gabriel Thomson, Sarah Alexander, Warwick Davis, Simon Schatzberger
Rating51%
In July 1890, Pinocchio and his friend Lampwick skip school to go to a carnival. While there, they watch a presentation by the carnival's leader, Madame Flambeau. She gives a man with one shorter leg some of her Elixir, and his leg grows to the length of the other one. The carnival's dwarf then leads Pinocchio and Lampwick to "The Hall of Freaks", a place with a clown that washes his face, an albino who can blow fire from his mouth, a large fish tank that have fish with human faces, a woman with a beard, and a fairy called "Blue" who only Pinocchio can see. They then return to Pinocchio's house and find his father Geppetto, who is very sick. Pinocchio and Lampwick then return to the carnival to each buy some of Madame Flambeau's Elixir. Felinet and Volpe, a human-cat and human-fox respectively, lead them to Madame Flambeau. They don't have enough money for the Elixir, so they agree to work for her in the carnival. Lampwick drinks his Elixir and returns home, and Pinocchio gives his Elixir to Geppetto.
Summer of the Monkeys (1998)
, 1h41Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin Canada
Actors Michael Ontkean, Leslie Hope, Corey Sevier, Don Francks, Wilford Brimley
Summer of the Monkeys is set at the end of the nineteenth century. Its hero is a 14-year-old boy, Jay Berry Lee, who had enjoyed an idyllic childhood. Born to Missouri sharecroppers, he moves with his family to Oklahoma after his grandfather offers them free land. Daisy, his twin, has a crippled leg, and her family devotes much effort to gaining enough money to pay for reconstructive surgery. One day, while looking for the family's lost milk cow, Jay Berry discovers monkeys in a nearby river bottom. Visiting his grandfather's store, he learns that the monkeys have escaped from a travelling circus, which has offered a vast reward for their capture: $100 for the chief monkey, "Jimbo", and $2 per monkey for the others. Jay Berry makes multiple attempts to capture the monkeys using traps and a net borrowed from his grandfather, but he gains only scratches and bites from the hostile Jimbo and his minions.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
, 1h35Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Pirate films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Richard Crenna, Ben Cross, Julie Cox, Michael Jayston, Paul Gross, Patrick Dempsey
Rating50%
Young Catherine (1991)
, 2h30Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Julia Ormond, Christopher Plummer, Franco Nero, Marthe Keller, Maximilian Schell
Rating73%
The year is 1744, and the beautiful young Catherine (Julia Ormond) is torn from her homeland to marry Peter (Reece Dinsdale), the heir to the Russian throne. However his aunt, Elizabeth, Empress of Russia (Vanessa Redgrave), rules the empire with an iron hand, and Peter proves neither fit for the throne nor the marriage bed. Treated as an outsider and at great risk from enemies who influence her husband, Catherine takes a lover and bears his child. Now, with help of her friend Sir Charles Williams (Christopher Plummer), she must take the throne by force if she, her young son Paul, and the Russian Empire are to survive.
Millennium (1989)
, 1h48Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Transport films, Time travel films, Aviation films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Robert Joy, Brent Carver, Al Waxman, Daniel J. Travanti
Rating56%
The film begins in the cockpit of a U.S. passenger airliner (Boeing 747) in 1989, shortly before they are struck from above by another airliner (McDonnell Douglas DC-10) on a landing approach. The pilot handles the airplane as well as he can while the flight engineer goes back to check on the passenger cabin. He comes back in the cockpit screaming, “They're dead! All of them! They’re burned up!”
The Jeweller's Shop (1989)
, 1h28Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Burt Lancaster, Olivia Hussey, Daniel Olbrychski, Ben Cross, Jonathan Crombie, Jo Champa
Rating58%
In this romantic story The Jeweller (Burt Lancaster) sells wedding rings to a young couple and teaches them some precious truths about the meaning of love and marriage. The jeweller also helps another couple to fight for their troubled marriage, rebuilding their relationship. The reborn love between this second couple teaches their daughter that a loving marriage is possible, and she eventually accepts the marriage proposal from the first couple's son.
Sword of Gideon (1986)
, 2h52Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Spy films, Political films
Actors Steven Bauer, Michael York, Robert Joy, Laurent Malet, Rod Steiger, Lino Ventura
Rating69%
Avner, an adept Israeli military officer is selected as the leader of a Mossad team of expert agents for a covert mission to avenge the Munich massacre and other recent terrorist acts. They are initially successful in their assassinations but as they progress it becomes harder and harder to find their targets and they themselves are targeted with varying success by their enemies. With Avner and Jean the driver being the only survivors the mission is called off. He wishes to retire from Mossad and rejoin the regular ranks of the IDF, but his case officer is reluctant to let his most valuable asset go.
Second Time Lucky (1984)
, 1h41Directed by Michael Anderson
Genres Comedy
Actors Diane Franklin, Robert Morley, Roger Wilson, Robert Helpmann, John-Michael Howson, David Weatherley
Rating51%
This script must be run from the command line
Dominique (1980)
, 1h40Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward, Ron Moody, Judy Geeson
Rating54%
Greedy David Ballard (Cliff Robertson) wants to get the money of his wife Dominique (Jean Simmons), so he attempts to drive her insane. He succeeds and she hangs herself, only to come back to haunt him from the afterlife.
Dominique (1980)
, 1h40Directed by Michael Anderson, Brian W. Cook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward, Ron Moody, Judy Geeson
Rating54%
Dominique Balard se suicide. Son mari David, qui cherchait à s'approprier sa fortune de son vivant, est peu à peu assailli par des visions de sa défunte épouse.
Orca (1977)
, 1h32Directed by Michael Anderson, Brian W. Cook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Cétacé, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un cétacé, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson, Bo Derek, Keenan Wynn, Robert Carradine
Rating57%
The movie revolves around the exploits of Captain Nolan (Harris), an Irish Canadian who catches marine animals to pay off the mortgage of his boat, and return to Ireland. Nolan's crew is looking for a great white shark for a local aquarium, but a scientist named Ken (Carradine) is being targeted by the shark. An orca comes and kills the shark, saving Ken. This switches Nolan's target to the orca. While Nolan is on the journey with his crew, he tries to capture what he believes to be a bull orca, but mistakenly harpoons a pregnant female. Nolan and his crew get the orca on board, where she subsequently miscarries. The crew hoses the dead fetus overboard as the male looks on screaming.
Logan's Run (1976)
, 2hDirected by Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, Peter Ustinov
Rating67%
In the year 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed domed city, a utopia run by a computer that takes care of all aspects of their life, including reproduction. The citizens live a hedonistic life but, to maintain the city, everyone must undergo the ritual of "Carrousel" [sic] when they reach the age of 30. There, they are vaporized and ostensibly "renewed". To track this, they are implanted at birth with a "life-clock" crystal in the palm of their hand that changes color as they approach their "Last Day." Most residents accept this promise of rebirth, but those who do not are known as "Runners" and "Sandmen" are assigned to pursue and terminate them.
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
, 1h47Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Stacy Keach, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York
Rating64%
Two young British officers arrive to join a prestigious regiment serving in India. One, Lieutenant Drake (York), from a middle-class background, is extremely eager to make the right impression while the other, Lieutenant Millington (James Faulkner), the son of a General, is not taken with the idea of the army, and keen to get out as soon as he possibly can. Almost as soon as they arrive, Millington gets off on the wrong foot with his comrades, causing them to dislike him.
, 1h52Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films
Actors Ron Ely, Paul Gleason, Michael Berryman, William Lucking, Eldon Quick, Darrell Zwerling
Rating53%
Doc Savage (Ron Ely) returns to New York City following a visit to his Arctic hideaway, the Fortess of Solitude. He learns that his father has died under mysterious circumstances while exploring the remote interior of the Central American Republic of Hidalgo. While examining his father's personal papers, Doc finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. Doc Savage chases and corners the sniper on the nearby Eastern Cranmoor Building, but the would-be assassin loses his footing and falls to his death. Examining the body, Doc discovers that his assailant is a Native American with peculiar markings; his fingertips are red, as if dipped in blood, while his chest bears an elaborate tattoo of the ancient Mayan god Kukulcan. Returning to his penthouse headquarters, Doc finds that intruders have destroyed his father's personal papers. Vowing to solve his father's murder, Doc Savage flies to Hidalgo with "The Fabulous Five", his brain trust, at his side.