Gerry Anderson
Nacimiento : 1929-04-14, West Hampstead, London, England, UK
Muerte : 2012-12-26
Historia
From Wikipedia,
Gerry Anderson, MBE (born Gerald Alexander Abrahams; 14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist. He was known for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed with "Supermarionation" (marionette puppets containing electric moving parts).
Anderson's first television production was the 1957 Roberta Leigh children's series The Adventures of Twizzle. Supercar (1961–62) and Fireball XL5 (1962) followed later, both series breaking into the US television market in the early 1960s. In the mid-1960s Anderson produced his most successful series, Thunderbirds. Other television productions of the 1960s include Stingray and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
Anderson also wrote and produced several feature films whose box office performance was unexceptional. Following a shift towards live action productions in the 1970s, he had a long and successful association with media impresario Lew Grade and Grade's company ITC, continuing until the second series of Space: 1999.
After a career lull when a number of new series concepts failed to get off the ground, his career began a new phase in the early 1980s when audience nostalgia for his earlier Supermarionation series (prompted by Saturday morning re-runs in Britain and Australia) led to new Anderson productions being commissioned. Later projects include a 2005 CGI remake of Captain Scarlet entitled Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet.
Self (archive footage)
La exitosa carrera de Gerry Anderson abarcó 60 años. Lanzado una década después de su muerte, este documental se basa en el acceso exclusivo a más de 30 horas de entrevistas inéditas para compartir las historias no contadas que definieron su vida y su obra.
Creator
The Investigator, a benevolent alien from a distant galaxy, selects an Earth boy and girl, John and Julie, to assist him in his mission to make their world a better place. The pair are miniaturized to assist The Investigator more easily, and assigned to prevent the theft by Stavros Karanti of a 14th-century masterpiece from a church on the island of Malta. John and Julie are presented with a car and a boat, scaled to accommodate their miniaturized size and set out to thwart Karanti's plans...
Producer
The Investigator, a benevolent alien from a distant galaxy, selects an Earth boy and girl, John and Julie, to assist him in his mission to make their world a better place. The pair are miniaturized to assist The Investigator more easily, and assigned to prevent the theft by Stavros Karanti of a 14th-century masterpiece from a church on the island of Malta. John and Julie are presented with a car and a boat, scaled to accommodate their miniaturized size and set out to thwart Karanti's plans...
Director
The Investigator, a benevolent alien from a distant galaxy, selects an Earth boy and girl, John and Julie, to assist him in his mission to make their world a better place. The pair are miniaturized to assist The Investigator more easily, and assigned to prevent the theft by Stavros Karanti of a 14th-century masterpiece from a church on the island of Malta. John and Julie are presented with a car and a boat, scaled to accommodate their miniaturized size and set out to thwart Karanti's plans...
Robert the Robot (voice, uncredited)
A compilation of the best of Supermarionation in High Definition. Sit back and enjoy some rare treats on a journey through Supermarionationland. Parker, Lady Penelope and Brains are your hosts, introducing some of the very best episodes from the Supermarionation archive as well as news items, commercial breaks with tie-in adverts and much more. Stand By For Action! - Four Feather Falls: Gunfight on Main Street - Supercar: False Alarm - Fireball XL5: Space City Special - Stingray: Pilot - Thunderbirds: Terror in New York City - Captain Scarlet: The Mysterons - Joe 90: Hi-Jacked - The Secret Service: More Haste, Less Speed
Self
The definitive documentary about the iconic television series developed by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and their production companies (AP Films and Century 21 Pictures). Supermarionation was a revolutionary technique used in all their programmes throughout the 1960s including Stingray, Captain Scarlet and, most famously, Thunderbirds.
Teleplay
Basada en una serie de TV americana de los años sesenta. Tras impedir por los pelos un desastre en una planta petrolífera, los Thunderbirds regresan a su base secreta. Sin embargo, su base espacial TB5 se encuentra gravemente dañada aparentemente por el impacto de un meteorito. Lo que desconocen es que es un complot de un peligroso criminal internacional que pretende controlar el cerebro de las personas.
Co-Writer
A New York cop is put in charge of a space police precinct and charged with the duty of protecting alien worlds from the evils of organized crime.
Producer
A New York cop is put in charge of a space police precinct and charged with the duty of protecting alien worlds from the evils of organized crime.
Producer
The first four episodes of Gerry Anderson's 1980s Supermarionation series. In 'Expect the Unexpected (Part 1)' Queen Zelda attacks and destroys a NASA Mars expedition. 'Expect the Unexpected (Part 2)' sees Zelda offer to make peace with the Terrahawks. 'Thunder Roar' finds the Terrahawks battling the mighty Sram, Lord of Felony. 'Close Call' has an investigative reporter threatens to expose the Terrahawks on worldwide television.
Writer
The first four episodes of Gerry Anderson's 1980s Supermarionation series. In 'Expect the Unexpected (Part 1)' Queen Zelda attacks and destroys a NASA Mars expedition. 'Expect the Unexpected (Part 2)' sees Zelda offer to make peace with the Terrahawks. 'Thunder Roar' finds the Terrahawks battling the mighty Sram, Lord of Felony. 'Close Call' has an investigative reporter threatens to expose the Terrahawks on worldwide television.
Executive Producer
"Journey Through the Black Sun" (1982) made by ITC New York combined the first season episodes "Collision Course" and "Black Sun" from the TV series "Space: 1999".
Writer
Captain Scarlet and friends battle the Mysterons from Mars.
Director
El pánico real que amenaza a la Tierra empieza a convertirse en realidad, cuando se confirma de una forma definitiva la aparición de unos OVNIS. Una organización altamente secreta, se organiza en la Tierra con el nombre de Shado, a fin de preparar una estrategia defensiva capaz de disuadir al enemigo de un posible ataque. los OVNIS llegan de un planeta a punto de extinción a millones de años luz, buscando órganos humanos a fin de reparar y dar fuerzas a sus propios cuerpos decadentes. Lo inevitable llega. Una gran batalla espacial decidirá de forma contundente quién dominará el Planeta Tierra
Executive Producer
Earth's Moon is the site of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research colony nestled in the crater Plato. Staffed by over 300 men and women from Earth, it is the operations center for several space expeditions. It is also a watchdog for vast amounts of atomic waste from Earth stored in silos on the Moon's far side. Magnetic radiation builds up and causes the wastes to explode with such force that the Earth's centripetal pull on the Moon is overcome, and the Moon is broken free of Earth's orbit to drift at incredible speed out of the Solar System off the plane of the ecliptic. The survivors on Moonbase Alpha are unable to return to Earth and must survive in unknown space on their wandering Moon. They encounter a planet whose advanced people project an illusion of a devastating attack on Moonbase. This TV movie was edited from scenes of two episodes ("Breakaway" and "War Games") of "Space: 1999" (1975).
Writer
War erupts between Earth and Mars after a manned mission to Mars results in an attack on the city of the Mysterons. Compiled from episodes of the 1967 series Captain Scarlet.
Producer
Una colonia lunar queda aislada de las comunicaciones con la Tierra después de que una explosión atómica saque a la Luna de su órbita. Tras unos días desesperados, llegará una nave de la Tierra al rescate, pero nada será como esperaban. Primer remontaje con destino a salas de cine de la serie Espacio 1999
Creator
Una colonia lunar queda aislada de las comunicaciones con la Tierra después de que una explosión atómica saque a la Luna de su órbita. Tras unos días desesperados, llegará una nave de la Tierra al rescate, pero nada será como esperaban. Primer remontaje con destino a salas de cine de la serie Espacio 1999
Producer
The spaceship Altares, with a photon drive capable of accelerating it to the speed of light, leaves an Earth-orbiting space station. The Altares crew, two families of scientific specialists, journey at light speed with time-dilation to Alpha Centauri, where they launch several satellites to transmit information on the Centauri star system back to Earth and guide future manned vessels in exploring. The Day after Tomorrow (also known as Into Infinity in the United Kingdom) is a 1975 British science-fiction television special produced by Gerry Anderson between the two seasons of Space: 1999. It stars Brian Blessed, Nick Tate, Joanna Dunham, Katherine Levy and Martin Lev. It aired in the United States on NBC as part of the network's Special Treat childrens series in December 1975, and in the UK on BBC1 in December 1976.
Producer
Ambientada en el futuro. Tras el descubrimiento de un planeta gemelo a la Tierra que también forma parte del sistema solar, se decide enviar una nave espacial para investigarlo.
Story
Ambientada en el futuro. Tras el descubrimiento de un planeta gemelo a la Tierra que también forma parte del sistema solar, se decide enviar una nave espacial para investigarlo.
Screenplay
Ambientada en el futuro. Tras el descubrimiento de un planeta gemelo a la Tierra que también forma parte del sistema solar, se decide enviar una nave espacial para investigarlo.
Writer
The International Rescue team is faced with one of its toughest challenges yet, as the revolutionary lighter-than-air craft Skyship One is hijacked while on her maiden voyage around the world. Against backdrops including the Statue of Liberty and the Sphinx, Lady Penelope, Parker, Alan and Tin-Tin fight the hijackers from on-board, while the rest of the team tries to stop the airship crashing.
Writer
Zero-X es una nave construida para transportar navegantes vivos a Marte. Un viaje que estará lleno de aventuras y problemas. No sólo descubrirán algo muy extraño que habita en el lejano planeta, sino que, además, serán víctimas de un sabotaje. Afortunadamente para ellos el equipo de “Rescate Internacional” seguirá atentamente la misión
Producer
Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working undercover without support from his colleagues, confronts and brings down a gang of vehicle hi-jackers.
Director
Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working undercover without support from his colleagues, confronts and brings down a gang of vehicle hi-jackers.
Sound Editor
Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.
Director
From the extraordinary world of Pete Collins a pilot that looks at A 3-part pilot television series that featured people doing strange things or with unusual talents.
Sound Editor
Una dura alienígena vestida en cuero, armada con una pistola de rayos láser y acompañada por un amenazante robot, llega a la tierra para llevarse seres humanos machos para que sus camaradas femeninas puedan aparearse.
Sound Editor
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
ADR & Dubbing
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
